A survey and task-based quality assessment of static 2D colormaps

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 9397, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Bernard, Jürgen ^a,c   Steiger, Martin ^a,c   Mittelstädt, Sebastian ^b   Thum, Simon ^a   Keim, Daniel ^b   Kohlhammer, Jörn ^a,c  

^a FRAUNHOFER IGD   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^c DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

2D colormap; Color spaces; Data comparison; Data projection; Evaluation; Information visualization; Quality assessment; User perception; Visual analytics

Indexed keywords

COLOR; DATA HANDLING; DATA VISUALIZATION; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MAPPING; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; SURVEYS; VISUALIZATION;

COLOR SPACE; COLORMAP; DATA COMPARISONS; DATA PROJECTION; EVALUATION; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; USER PERCEPTIONS; VISUAL ANALYTICS;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84923875846     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2079841     Document Type: Conference Paper

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