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Movement as an Aid to Understanding Graphs

John Bovey, Peter Rodgers, and Florence Benoy

In Seventh International Conference on Information Visualization (IV03), pages 472-478. IEEE, July 2003.

Abstract

This paper describes a graph visualization method that attempts to aid the understanding of graphs by adding continuous local movement to graph diagrams. The paper includes a discussion of some of the many different kinds of potential graph movement and then describes an empirical trial that was conducted to investigate whether one kind of movement helps with a particular graph comprehension task. Although the results of the trial are promising, the degree of benefit afforded by the movement varies between graphs and the paper includes a discussion about graph features which may account for this discrepancy.

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Bibtex Record

@inproceedings{1653,
author = {John Bovey and Peter Rodgers and Florence Benoy},
title = {{Movement as an Aid to Understanding Graphs}},
month = {July},
year = {2003},
pages = {472-478},
keywords = {Graph Visualization, Graph Movement},
note = {},
doi = {},
url = {http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/2003/1653},
    publication_type = {inproceedings},
    submission_id = {9742_1058857753},
    ISBN = {0-7695-1988-1},
    booktitle = {Seventh International Conference on Information Visualization (IV03)},
    publisher = {IEEE},
    refereed = {yes},
}

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