Bovey, John D., Benoy, Florence, Rodgers, Peter (2004) Using Games to Investigate Movement for Graph Comprehension. In: Advanced Visual Interfaces: AVI 2004. . pp. 71-79. ACM, New York, USA ISBN 1-58113-867-9. (doi:10.1145/989863.989872) (KAR id:14162)
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Abstract
We describe the results of empirical investigations that explore the effectiveness of moving graph diagrams to improve the comprehension of their structure. The investigations involved subjects playing a game that required understanding the structure of a number of graphs. The use of a game as the task was intended to motivate the exploration of the graph by the subjects. The results show that movement can be beneficial when there is node-node or node-edge occlusion in the graph diagram but can have a detrimental effect when there is no occlusion, particularly if the diagram is small. We believe the positive result should generalise to other graph exploration tasks, and that graph movement is likely be useful as an additional graph exploration tool.
Item Type: | Conference or workshop item (Paper) |
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DOI/Identification number: | 10.1145/989863.989872 |
Uncontrolled keywords: | Graph Movement, Graph Drawing, Diagram Comprehension |
Subjects: | Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) > QA 76 Software, computer programming, |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Computing |
Depositing User: | Peter Rodgers |
Date Deposited: | 24 Nov 2008 18:02 UTC |
Last Modified: | 16 Nov 2021 09:52 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/14162 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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