A design space of visualization tasks

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2366-2375

  Schulz, Hans Jorg ^a   Nocke, Thomas ^b   Heitzler, Magnus ^b   Schumann, Heidrun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^b POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

climate impact research; design space; Task taxonomy; visualization recommendation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCHES; DESIGN DIMENSIONS; DESIGN SPACES; END USERS; GENERAL DESIGNS; TASK DESCRIPTION; USER ROLES; VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS;

TAXONOMIES; VISUALIZATION;

DESIGN;

ALGORITHM; CLIMATE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; ARTICLE;

ALGORITHMS; CLIMATE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE DESIGN; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84886648989     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2013.120     Document Type: Article

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