Representing time intervals in a two-dimensional space: An empirical study

Journal of Visual Languages and Computing

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 466-480

  Qiang, Yi ^a   Valcke, Martin ^b   De Maeyer, Philippe ^b   Van de Weghe, Nico ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Empirical study; Information visualisation; Temporal information; Temporal reasoning; Time intervals

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904755982     PISSN: 1045926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvlc.2014.01.001     Document Type: Article

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