Living liquid: Design and evaluation of an exploratory visualization tool for museum visitors

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2799-2808

  Ma, Joyce ^a   Liao, Isaac ^b   Ma, Kwan Liu ^b   Frazier, Jennifer ^a  

^a Exploratorium in San Francisco ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

evaluation; informal learning environments; Information visualization; science museums; user interaction; user studies

Indexed keywords

EVALUATION; INFORMAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; SCIENCE MUSEUM; USER INTERACTION; USER STUDY;

DATA VISUALIZATION; DESIGN; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LIQUIDS; VISUALIZATION;

MUSEUMS;

ADULT; CALIFORNIA; CHILD; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION CENTER; PHYTOPLANKTON; PROCEDURES; SEA; SIMULATION TRAINING;

ADULT; CHILD; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; MUSEUMS; OCEANS AND SEAS; PHYTOPLANKTON; SAN FRANCISCO; SIMULATION TRAINING;

EID: 84867650814     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2012.244     Document Type: Article

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