How users interact with biodiversity information using TaxonTree

Proceedings of the Workshop on Advanced Visual Interfaces AVI

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 320-327

  Lee, Bongshin ^a   Parr, Cynthia Sims ^a   Campbell, Dana ^a   Bederson, Benjamin B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Animation; Biodiversity; Browsing; Hierarchy tree visualization; Information retrieval; Searching

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY DATUM; BROWSING; GENERAL KNOWLEDGE; SEARCHING; TAXONOMIC HIERARCHY; TREE-BASED; UNDERGRADUATE COURSES; USAGE PATTERNS;

ANIMATION; DATA VISUALIZATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; TREES (MATHEMATICS); VISUALIZATION;

BIODIVERSITY;

EID: 84876558088     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/989863.989918     Document Type: Conference Paper

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