Interactive querying of temporal data using a comic strip metaphor

VAST 10 - IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology 2010, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 163-170

  Jin, Jing ^a   Szekely, Pedro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

H.3.3 Information Systems : Information search and retrieval Query formulation; H.5.2 information Interfaces and Presentation : User interface User centered design

Indexed keywords

COMIC STRIPS; DATA ANALYSIS; H.5.2 [INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION]: USER INTERFACES; INFORMATION SEARCH AND RETRIEVAL; INTERACTIVE QUERYING; SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL DATA; TEMPORAL PATTERN; VISUAL ANALYSIS; VISUAL QUERY;

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 78650962316     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VAST.2010.5652890     Document Type: Conference Paper

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