Ranking visualizations of correlation using Weber's law

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1943-1952

  Harrison, Lane ^a   Yang, Fumeng ^a   Franconeri, Steven ^b   Chang, Remco ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Perception; Visualization

Indexed keywords

FLOW VISUALIZATION;

EVALUATION;

SENSORY PERCEPTION;

EID: 84909638583     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2014.2346979     Document Type: Article

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