Interactive visualization for low literacy users: From lessons learnt to design

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1159-1168

  Kodagoda, Neesha ^a   Wong, B L William ^a   Rooney, Chris ^a   Khan, Nawaz ^a  

^a MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Design principles; High literacy; Low literacy; Mental models; User interface; Visualization

Indexed keywords

DATA RETRIEVAL; DESIGN PRINCIPLES; HIGH LITERACY; INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATIONS; LOW LITERACY; MENTAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE DATA; SEARCHING FOR INFORMATIONS; SUBJECTIVE FEEDBACK; WEB INTERFACE; WORKING SYSTEMS;

FLOW VISUALIZATION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; USER INTERFACES; VISUALIZATION;

DESIGN;

EID: 84862073158     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2207676.2208565     Document Type: Conference Paper

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