The challenges of specifying intervals and absences in temporal queries: A graphical language approach

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 2349-2358

  Monroe, Megan ^a   Lan, Rongjian ^a   Morales Del Olmo, Juan ^b   Shneiderman, Ben ^a   Plaisant, Catherine ^a   Millstein, Jeff ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c Oracle ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Electronic health records; Event sequences; Query interfaces; Query languages; Temporal query

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL RESEARCHERS; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; EVENT SEQUENCE; GRAPHICAL LANGUAGES; PHARMACOVIGILANCE; QUERY INTERFACES; TEMPORAL EVENT SEQUENCES; TEMPORAL QUERIES;

QUERY LANGUAGES; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84877952247     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2470654.2481325     Document Type: Conference Paper

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