A multi-level typology of abstract visualization tasks

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2376-2385

  Brehmer, Matthew ^a   Munzner, Tamara ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

qualitative evaluation; task and requirements analysis; Typology; visualization models

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM; QUALITATIVE EVALUATIONS; REQUIREMENTS ANALYSIS; RIGOROUS ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; TYPOLOGY; VISUALIZATION MODELS; VISUALIZATION SYSTEM;

MAPS;

VISUALIZATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL; VISION; ARTICLE;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84886683619     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2013.124     Document Type: Article

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