Understand users' comprehension and preferences for composing information visualizations

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Yang, Huahai ^a   Li, Yunyao ^a   Zhou, Michelle X ^a  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chart comprehension; Cognitive semantics; Crowdsourcing; User preference; Visual taxonomy; Visualization composition

Indexed keywords

DATA VISUALIZATION; TAXONOMIES;

CHART COMPREHENSION; COGNITIVE SEMANTICS; CROWDSOURCING; USER PREFERENCE; VISUALIZATION COMPOSITIONS;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84896998278     PISSN: 10730516     EISSN: 15577325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2541288     Document Type: Article

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