Cognitive measurements of graph aesthetics

Information Visualization

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 103-110

  Ware, Colin ^a   Purchase, Helen ^b   Colpoys, Linda ^b   McGill, Matthew ^b  

^a Data Visualization Research Lab   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

aesthetics; cognitive modeling; Graph layout; network visualization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84997941469     PISSN: 14738716     EISSN: 14738724     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.ivs.9500013     Document Type: Article

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