Evaluating graphical manipulations in automatically laid out LineSets.
This paper presents an empirical study to determine whether alterations to graphical features (colour and size) of automatically generated LineSets improve task performance. LineSets are used to visualise sets and networks. The increasingly common nature of such data suggests that having effective v...
| Publicado en: | Behaviour & Information Technology Vol. 40; no. 4; pp. 361 - 385 |
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| Formato: | tables/charts Journal Article |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Apr2021
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