The Effects of Information Scent on Visual Search in the Hyperbolic Tree Browser

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 20-53

  Pirolli, Peter ^a   Card, Stuart K ^a   Van Der Wege, Mija M ^b  

^a PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b CARLETON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Experimentation; fisheye lens visual search; focus+context; Human Factors; Hyperbolic Tree; information foraging; information scent; Information visualization; interactive computer graphics; Theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870013323     PISSN: 10730516     EISSN: 15577325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/606658.606660     Document Type: Article

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