On the effectiveness of Overview+Detail visualization on mobile devices

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 371-385

  Burigat, Stefano ^a   Chittaro, Luca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Experimental evaluation; Mobile interaction; Overview+Detail; Small screen devices; Visualization

Indexed keywords

DESKTOP APPLICATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; INTERFACE DESIGNERS; LARGE INFORMATION SPACES; MOBILE INTERACTION; OVERVIEW+DETAIL; SMALL-SCREEN DEVICES; SPATIAL CONFIGURATION;

FLOW VISUALIZATION; MOBILE DEVICES; VISUALIZATION;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84879690467     PISSN: 16174909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00779-011-0500-3     Document Type: Article

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