Information Visualization, 3rd Edition

Index

Page numbers in italics indicate figures, tables and text boxes.

A

Abstract semantics, 307

Abstract symbols, 320–322

Accommodation, 142

Acoustic verbal stimuli, 311

Actions

epistemic, 345, 348, 349

system, 22

Active processes, 180

Actual eye separation, 264, 265

Acuity distribution and visual field, 52, 52–55

Adaptation, 84

role of, 85

Adaptive level of detail display, 416

Advection trajectory, 194

Aesthetic impression of 3D space, 289–290

Affordances, 18, 33

metaphor of, 356

Algorithms, visual thinking

brushing, 407–408

degree-of-relevance highlighting, 412–415

design sketching, 405–407

generalized fisheye views, 415–417

large information space, small pattern comparisons in, 408–412

map/diagram, pathfinding on, 400–403

multidimensional ...