Inner and outer theory in human-computer interaction
Designing interaction
Things that make us smart: defending human attributes in the age of the machine
Things that make us smart: defending human attributes in the age of the machine
Readings in information visualization: using vision to think
Readings in information visualization: using vision to think
Individual differences in virtual environments-introduction and overview
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special topic issue: individual differences in virtual environments
Empirical evaluation of information visualizations: an introduction
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies - Empirical evaluation of information visualizations
Evaluating visualizations: using a taxonomic guide
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies - Empirical evaluation of information visualizations
Empirical studies of information visualization: a meta-analysis
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies - Empirical evaluation of information visualizations
An evaluation of space-filling information visualizations for depicting hierarchical structures
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies - Empirical evaluation of information visualizations
GeoRef Thesaurus
Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction
Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction
Usability Engineering
Spatial metaphors for browsing large data archives
Spatial metaphors for browsing large data archives
GeoVIBE: A Visual Interface for Geographic Digital Libraries
Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries [JCDL 2002 Workshop]
On Geometry and Transformation in Map-Like Information Visualization
Visual Interfaces to Digital Libraries [JCDL 2002 Workshop]
FacetMap: A Scalable Search and Browse Visualization
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Improving interaction with virtual globes through spatial thinking: helping users ask "why?"
Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
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Information visualizations have become popular tools for extracting knowledge from large bodies of information. Very little is known on the usability of such 'visual knowledge tools' for information access. The goal of this paper is to show the usability of the spatial metaphor 'scale' to access a large semantic document space. An experiment was conducted to examine whether different user groups can associate graphical changes in resolution in spatialized views with changes of level of detail in an index hierarchy of a digital document collection. Test participants were asked to utilize zoom tools to explore a spatialized subset of the GeoRef database, an extensive collection of geology and earth sciences documents. The outcomes of the experiment suggest that people are able to associate graphical changes in resolution of spatialized views (zooms) with changes in levels of detail of a document collection (hierarchical order). These results are independent of user group membership, but for some displays it takes people longer to make a decision.