Visualization of Web Spaces: State of the Art and Future Directions

Data Base for Advances in Information Systems

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 51-81

  Turetken, Ozgur ^a   Sharda, Ramesh ^b  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Human computer Interaction; Information Visualization; Web Usability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84979550070     PISSN: 00950033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1278253.1278260     Document Type: Article

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