Design considerations for optimizing storyline visualizations

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2679-2688

  Tanahashi, Yuzuru ^a   Ma, Kwan Liu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

design study; Layout algorithm; storyline visualization; timeline visualization

Indexed keywords

DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS; DESIGN STUDIES; GLOBAL TRENDS; LAYOUT ALGORITHMS; LOCAL INTERACTIONS; MULTIPLE OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS; STORYLINES; TEMPORAL DYNAMICS; VISUALIZATION TECHNIQUE;

ALGORITHMS; DATA VISUALIZATION; DESIGN;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84867640095     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2012.212     Document Type: Article

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