Graph drawing aesthetics in user-sketched graph layouts

Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology Series

Volumn 106, Issue , 2010, Pages 80-88

  Purchase, Helen C ^a   Plimmer, Beryl ^b   Baker, Rosemary ^b   Pilcher, Christopher ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Graph aesthetics; Graph drawing creation; Sketching

Indexed keywords

EDGE CROSSING; GRAPH AESTHETICS; GRAPH DRAWING; GRAPH DRAWING ALGORITHMS; GRAPH LAYOUT; INITIAL CONFIGURATION; MOVING NODES; SKETCHING;

DRAWING (GRAPHICS);

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 84873306128     PISSN: 14451336     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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