Establishing aesthetics based on human graph reading behavior: Two eye tracking studies

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 93-105

  Huang, Weidong ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aesthetics; Crossing angles; Edge crossings; Eye tracking; Geodesic path tendency; Graph comprehension; Graph visualization

Indexed keywords

AESTHETICS; CROSSING ANGLES; EDGE CROSSING; EYE-TRACKING; GEODESIC PATHS; GRAPH COMPREHENSION; GRAPH VISUALIZATION;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; GRAPHIC METHODS; TARGET TRACKING;

GRAPH THEORY;

EID: 84872353114     PISSN: 16174909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00779-011-0473-2     Document Type: Article

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