Automatic graph drawing and readability of diagrams
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
Drawing graphs nicely using simulated annealing
ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)
An experimental study of the basis for graph drawing algorithms
Journal of Experimental Algorithmics (JEA)
Graph drawing aesthetics and the comprehension of UML class diagrams: an empirical study
APVis '01 Proceedings of the 2001 Asia-Pacific symposium on Information visualisation - Volume 9
Empirical Evaluation of Aesthetics-based Graph Layout
Empirical Software Engineering
Experimenting with Aesthetics-Based Graph Layout
Diagrams '00 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Theory and Application of Diagrams
Which Aesthetic has the Greatest Effect on Human Understanding?
GD '97 Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Graph Drawing
Graph Multidrawing: Finding Nice Drawings Without Defining Nice
GD '98 Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Graph Drawing
On the Aesthetics of Diagrams (Summary of Talk)
MPC '98 Proceedings of the Mathematics of Program Construction
Nice class diagrams admit good design?
Proceedings of the 2003 ACM symposium on Software visualization
Cognitive measurements of graph aesthetics
Information Visualization
Ubiquity
APVis '05 proceedings of the 2005 Asia-Pacific symposium on Information visualisation - Volume 45
Applying Graphical Design Techniques to Graph Visualisation
IV '05 Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Information Visualisation
Using perceptual grouping for object group selection
CHI '06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
On evaluating the layout of UML diagrams for program comprehension
Software Quality Control
Aesthetic Computing (Leonardo Books)
Aesthetic Computing (Leonardo Books)
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Visualizing Semantic Web proofs of defeasible logic in the DR-DEVICE system
Knowledge-Based Systems
Visual change tracking for business process models
ER'11 Proceedings of the 30th international conference on Conceptual modeling
Aesthetic layout of wiring diagrams
Diagrams'12 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Diagrammatic Representation and Inference
Comparing the readability of graph layouts using eyetracking and task-oriented analysis
Computational Aesthetics'09 Proceedings of the Fifth Eurographics conference on Computational Aesthetics in Graphics, Visualization and Imaging
Graph visualization using the metaphor of biological neural nets
Proceedings of the 27th Spring Conference on Computer Graphics
Untangling graphs representing spatial relationships driven by drawing aesthetics
Proceedings of the 17th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics
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The discipline of graph visualization produces pictorial representations of node–link structures. Much effort has been directed toward making such diagrams visually pleasing. A variety of aesthetic heuristics have been proposed, with the assumption that these will improve readability and understanding. We look at a perceptual basis for these heuristics, including Gestalt principles and Norman's emotional design framework. Next, we review the work to date on aesthetic heuristics and examine what has been done to evaluate these heuristics. We summarize this in a framework that outlines graph drawing heuristics, their perceptual basis, and evaluation status.