Improving focus and context awareness in interactive visualization of time lines

Proceedings of the 2010 British Computer Society Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, BCS-HCI 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 72-80

  Luz, Saturnino ^a   Masoodian, Masood ^b  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Context awareness; Evaluation; Focus; Gantt charts; Information visualization; Task hierarchies; Temporal mosaic; Time lines

Indexed keywords

FOCUSING; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MULTITASKING;

CONTEXT- AWARENESS; EVALUATION; GANTT CHART; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; TASK HIERARCHIES; TEMPORAL MOSAIC; TIME LINE;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 85070342111     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.14236/ewic/hci2010.11     Document Type: Conference Paper

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