Evaluating the effect of style in information visualization

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2739-2748

  Vande Moere, Andrew ^a   Tomitsch, Martin ^b   Wimmer, Christoph ^c   Christoph, Boesch ^c   Grechenig, Thomas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

aesthetics; design; evaluation; online study; style; user experience; Visualization

Indexed keywords

AESTHETICS; EVALUATION; ONLINE STUDY; STYLE; USER EXPERIENCE;

DESIGN; FLOW VISUALIZATION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84867643050     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2012.221     Document Type: Article

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