An Experimental Evaluation of Continuous Semantic Zooming in Program Visualization

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	Kenneth L. Summers, Timothy E. Goldsmith, Steve Kubica, Thomas P. Caudell, "An Experimental Evaluation of Continuous Semantic Zooming in Program Visualization," Information Visualization, IEEE Symposium on, pp. 20, 2003 IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis 2003), 2003.

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	@article{ 10.1109/INFVIS.2003.1249021, author = {Kenneth L. Summers and Timothy E. Goldsmith and Steve Kubica and Thomas P. Caudell}, title = {An Experimental Evaluation of Continuous Semantic Zooming in Program Visualization}, journal ={Information Visualization, IEEE Symposium on}, volume = {0}, year = {2003}, isbn = {0-7695-2055-3}, pages = {20}, doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/INFVIS.2003.1249021}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, }

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	TY - CONF JO - Information Visualization, IEEE Symposium on TI - An Experimental Evaluation of Continuous Semantic Zooming in Program Visualization SN - 0-7695-2055-3 SP EP A1 - Kenneth L. Summers, A1 - Timothy E. Goldsmith, A1 - Steve Kubica, A1 - Thomas P. Caudell, PY - 2003 KW - Program visualization KW - Human subjects testing KW - Visual program languages VL - 0 JA - Information Visualization, IEEE Symposium on ER -

Kenneth L. Summers, The University of New Mexico

Timothy E. Goldsmith, The University of New Mexico

Steve Kubica, Khoral, Inc.

Thomas P. Caudell, The University of New Mexico

This paper presents the results of an experiment aimed at investigating how different methods of viewing visual programs affect users' understanding. The first two methods used traditional flat and semantic zooming models of program representation; the third is a new representation that uses semantic zooming combined with blending and proximity. The results of several search tasks performed by approximately 80 participants showed that the new method resulted in both faster and more accurate searches than the other methods.

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Program visualization, Human subjects testing, Visual program languages

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Kenneth L. Summers, Timothy E. Goldsmith, Steve Kubica, Thomas P. Caudell, "An Experimental Evaluation of Continuous Semantic Zooming in Program Visualization," infovis, pp.20, 2003 IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis 2003), 2003

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