The effect of knowledge-of-external-representations upon performance and representational choice in a database query task

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

Volumn 2980, Issue , 2004, Pages 351-354

  Grawemeyer, Beate ^a   Cox, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA REDUCTION; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEMANTICS; QUERY PROCESSING;

DATABASE QUERY TASK; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; KNOWLEDGE OF EXTERNAL REPRESENTATIONS (KER); CARD SORT; DATA REPRESENTATIONS; DATABASE QUERIES; DIAGRAMMATIC REASONING; EARLY-TO-LATE; EXTERNAL REPRESENTATIONS; PREFERENCE PATTERN; SCATTER PLOTS;

KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 9444259807     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-25931-2_37     Document Type: Conference Paper

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