User studies in visualization: A reflection on methods

Handbook of Human Centric Visualization

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 411-426

  Tory, Melanie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; QUANTITATIVE EXPERIMENTS; USABILITY STUDIES; USER STUDY;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84910086165     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-7485-2_16     Document Type: Chapter

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