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The Cost-of-Knowledge Characteristic Function: Display Evaluation for Direct-Walk Dynamic Information Visualizations (1994)  (Make Corrections)  (9 citations)
Stuart K. Card, Peter Pirolli, and Jock D. Mackinlay Xerox Palo Alto Research ...
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Abstract: In this paper we present a method, the Cost-of-Knowledge Characteristic Function, for characterizing information access from dynamic displays. The paper works out this method for a simple, but important, class of dynamic displays called direct-walk interactive information visualizations, in which information is accessed through a sequence of mouse selections and key selections. The method is used to characterize a simple calendar task for an application of the Information Visualizer, to ... (Update)

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.... and filter, and then detail on demand, whilst others have focused on the cost benefit of using the visualisations to locate information [4]. Whilst both of these views are about the visualisation s ability to present the information in certain expected forms, neither of them...

.... navigates through an information space from a starting point to a target point by a series of direct manipulation and interaction steps [2]. The goal is to provide software tools structured so that the user is required to perform as few steps as possible to reach the target...

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Card, S., Pirolli, P., and Mackinlay, J. (1993). The cost-of-knowledge characteristic function: Display evaluation for direct-walk dynamic information visualizations. In CHI'94: Human Factors in Computing Systems, pages 238--244, Boston, MA. ACM. http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/486541.html   More

@inproceedings{ card94costknowledge,
    author = "S. K. Card and P. Pirolli",
    title = "The Cost-of-Knowledge Characteristic Function: Display Evaluation for Direct-Walk Dynamic Information Visualizations",
    booktitle = "Proc. {ACM} Conf. Human Factors in Computing Systems, {CHI}",
    publisher = "ACM",
    year = "1994",
    url = "citeseer.ist.psu.edu/486541.html" }
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