The effects of interactive latency on exploratory visual analysis

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2122-2131

  Liu, Zhicheng ^a   Heer, Jeffrey ^b  

^a ADOBE RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

exploratory analysis; Interaction; interactive visualization; latency; scalability; user performance; verbal analysis

Indexed keywords

EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS; INTERACTION; INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATIONS; LATENCY; USER PERFORMANCE; VERBAL ANALYSIS;

SCALABILITY;

COGNITION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; INFORMATION SCIENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME FACTOR;

COGNITION; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; INFORMATICS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84910056540     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2014.2346452     Document Type: Article

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