Patina: Dynamic heatmaps for visualizing application usage

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 3227-3236

  Matejka, Justin ^a   Grossman, Tovi ^a   Fitzmaurice, George ^a  

^a AUTODESK RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Social learning; Visualization

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE APPLICATION; HEATMAPS; INDEPENDENT SYSTEMS; SOCIAL LEARNING; SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS; TARGET APPLICATION; USAGE DATA; USER INTERFACE CONTROL;

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; USER INTERFACES; VISUALIZATION;

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API);

EID: 84877982589     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2470654.2466442     Document Type: Conference Paper

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