The perception of visual uncertainty representation by non-experts

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 935-943

  Tak, Susanne ^a   Toet, Alexander ^b,c   Van Erp, Jan ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

non expert audiences; spatial data; Uncertainty visualization; user study

Indexed keywords

NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

INTERNAL MODELING; NON-EXPERT AUDIENCES; SPATIAL DATA; UNCERTAINTY DISTRIBUTIONS; UNCERTAINTY REPRESENTATION; UNCERTAINTY VISUALIZATION; USER STUDY; VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84900022540     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2013.247     Document Type: Article

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