Systematic literature studies have received much attention in empirical software engineering
in recent years. They have become a powerful tool to collect and structure reported …

Knowledge of human perception has long been incorporated into visualizations to enhance
their quality and effectiveness. The last decade, in particular, has shown an increase in …

Word clouds have emerged as a straightforward and visually appealing visualization
method for text. They are used in various contexts as a means to provide an overview by …

The visualization community has developed to date many intuitions and understandings of
how to judge the quality of views in visualizing data. The computation of a visualization's …

Word clouds continue to be a popular tool for summarizing textual information, despite their
well-documented deficiencies for analytic tasks. Much of their popularity rests on their playful …

This book is a second edition, updated and expanded to explain the technologies that help
us find information on the web. Search engines and web navigation tools have become …

This research explores the ability of grade 2 students to engage in productive discussion
about the state of their knowledge building using group-level feedback tools to support their …

In this paper we present a set of four user studies aimed at exploring the visual design space
of what we call keyword summaries: lists of words with associated quantitative values used …

Among the multifarious tag-clouding techniques, Wordle stands out to the community by
providing an aesthetic layout, eliciting the emergence of the participatory culture and usage …

Word clouds are an essential tool for text visualization, and the readability of word clouds
significantly affects the reading comprehension of users. Consequently, this study …