Title :
Information content measures of visual displays
Author :
Yang-peláez, Julie ; Flowers, W.C.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Mech. Eng., MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
Abstract :
With an increase in the number of different visualization techniques, it becomes necessary to develop a measure for evaluating the effectiveness of visualizations. Metrics to evaluate visual displays were developed based on measures of information content developed by Shannon and used in communication theory. These measures of information content can be used to quantify the relative effectiveness of displays
Keywords :
data visualisation; software metrics; user interfaces; information content; metrics; relative effectiveness; visualization; Displays;
Conference_Titel :
Information Visualization, 2000. InfoVis 2000. IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Salt Lake City, UT
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0804-9
DOI :
10.1109/INFVIS.2000.885096
