An empirical study on using visual embellishments in visualization

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2759-2768

  Borgo, Rita ^a   Abdul Rahman, Alfie ^b   Mohamed, Farhan ^c   Grant, Philip W ^a   Reppa, Irene ^a   Floridi, Luciano ^b   Chen, Min ^b  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

cognition; evaluation; icons; long term memory; metaphors; Visual embellishments; visual search; working memory

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; EVALUATION; ICONS; LONG TERM MEMORY; METAPHORS; VISUAL EMBELLISHMENTS; VISUAL SEARCH; WORKING MEMORIES;

EXPERIMENTS;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84867653923     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2012.197     Document Type: Article

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