The VAST challenge: History, scope, and outcomes: An introduction to the special issue

Information Visualization

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 301-312

  Cook, Kristin ^a   Grinstein, Georges ^b   Whiting, Mark ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

Author keywords

Contest; Critical thinking; Evaluation; Sensemaking; Visual analytics

Indexed keywords

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); SECURITY OF DATA; VISUALIZATION;

CONTEST; CRITICAL THINKING; EVALUATION; SENSEMAKING; VISUAL ANALYTICS;

COMPUTER CRIME;

EID: 84928004484     PISSN: 14738716     EISSN: 14738724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1473871613490678     Document Type: Review

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