Memorability of visual features in network diagrams

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2477-2485

  Marriott, Kim ^a   Purchase, Helen ^b   Wybrow, Michael ^a   Goncu, Cagatay ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

diagram recall; experiment; graph layout; Network diagrams; perceptual theories; visual features

Indexed keywords

AXIS ALIGNMENT; COLLINEARITY; DIAGRAM RECALL; GRAPH LAYOUT; NETWORK-BASED; ORTHOGONALITY; PERCEPTUAL THEORIES; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SMALL NETWORKS; VISUAL FEATURE; VISUAL-PROCESSING;

ALIGNMENT; EXPERIMENTS;

GRAPHIC METHODS;

EID: 84867634338     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2012.245     Document Type: Article

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