Does the orientation of an Euler diagram affect user comprehension?

Proceedings: DMS 2012 - 18th International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 185-190

  Blake, Andrew ^a   Stapleton, Gem ^a   Rodgers, Peter ^b   Cheek, Liz ^a   Hows, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; VISUAL LANGUAGES;

EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EULER DIAGRAMS; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION;

GRAPHIC METHODS;

EID: 84923929109     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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