Visual semiotics & uncertainty visualization: An empirical study

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2496-2505

  Maceachren, Alan M ^a   Roth, Robert E ^b   O'Brien, James ^c   Li, Bonan ^d   Swingley, Derek ^a   Gahegan, Mark ^e  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d ZillionInfo   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

semiotics; uncertainty categories; Uncertainty visualization; visual variables

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL STUDIES; ICONIC REPRESENTATION; RELATIVE PERFORMANCE; UNCERTAINTY CATEGORIES; UNCERTAINTY VISUALIZATION; VISUAL SEMIOTICS; VISUAL VARIABLES;

EXPERIMENTS; MAPS; VISUALIZATION;

SEMIOTICS;

EID: 84867637476     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2012.279     Document Type: Article

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