Common angle plots as perception-true visualizations of categorical associations

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2297-2305

  Hofmann, Heike ^a   Vendettuoli, Marie ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

data visualization; hammock plots; high dimensional displays; Linewidth illusion; Muller Lyer illusion; parallel sets

Indexed keywords

CATEGORICAL DATA; CATEGORICAL VARIABLES; HAMMOCK PLOTS; HIGH-DIMENSIONAL; MULLER-LYER ILLUSION; PARALLEL SETS; USER STUDY;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

VISUALIZATION;

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER INTERFACE; HUMAN; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; ARTICLE; METHODOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; HUMANS; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84886712950     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2013.140     Document Type: Article

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