Graphdiaries: Animated transitions andtemporal navigation for dynamic networks

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 740-754

  Bach, Benjamin ^a   Pietriga, Emmanuel ^a   Fekete, Jean Daniel ^a  

^a INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

Dynamic networks; graph visualization; temporal navigation; user experiment

Indexed keywords

GRAPHIC METHODS; NAVIGATION; TAXONOMIES;

ANIMATED TRANSITIONS; DYNAMIC NETWORK; GRAPH VISUALIZATION; TIME STEP; USER EXPERIMENTS; USER STUDY; VISUAL INTERFACE;

COMPLEX NETWORKS;

EID: 84897043202     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2013.254     Document Type: Article

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