Perceptual Dependencies in Information Visualization Assessed by Complex Visual Search

ACM Transactions on Applied Perception

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1-21

  Van, Ronald ^a   Berg, Den ^a   Roerdink, Jos B T M ^a   Cornelissen, Fransw ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Color; Design; Experimentation; feature hierarchy; feature interaction; Human Factors; human vision; information visualization; Measurement; nodelink diagrams; orientation; perceptual dependencies; Performance; psychophysics; Verification; visual features; visual search

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863024480     PISSN: 15443558     EISSN: 15443965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1278760.1278763     Document Type: Article

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