The state of the art in empirical user evaluation of graph visualizations

M Burch, W Huang, M Wakefield, HC Purchase… - IEEE …, 2020‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While graph drawing focuses more on the aesthetic representation of node-link diagrams,
graph visualization takes into account other visual metaphors making them useful for graph …

Design and evaluation of line symbolizations for origin–destination flow maps

C Koylu, D Guo - Information Visualization, 2017‏ - journals.sagepub.com
We present the results of a user study comparing variants of commonly used line
symbolizations for directed origin–destination flow maps. Our design and evaluation …

Evaluating partially drawn links for directed graph edges

M Burch, C Vehlow, N Konevtsova… - Graph Drawing: 19th …, 2012‏ - Springer
We investigate the readability of node-link diagrams for directed graphs when using partially
drawn links instead of showing each link explicitly in its full length. Providing the complete …

Comparative eye tracking study on node-link visualizations of trajectories

R Netzel, M Burch, D Weiskopf - IEEE transactions on …, 2014‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present the results of an eye tracking study that compares different visualization methods
for long, dense, complex, and piecewise linear spatial trajectories. Typical sources of such …

Gestalt principles in graph drawing

SG Kobourov, T Mchedlidze, L Vonessen - Graph Drawing and Network …, 2015‏ - Springer
Gestalt principles are rules for the organization of perceptual scenes. They were introduced
in the context of philosophy and psychology in the 19th century and were used to define …

Making graph visualization a user-centered process

W Huang, J Luo, T Bednarz, H Duh - Journal of Visual Languages & …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Many problems in application domains deal with graphs. Graphs are often visualized into
node-link diagrams for better understanding of them. Traditionally, graphs are visualized to …

Sticky Links: Encoding Quantitative Data of Graph Edges

M Lu, X Zeng, J Lanir, X Sun, G Li… - … on Visualization and …, 2024‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Visually encoding quantitative information associated with graph links is an important
problem in graph visualization. A conventional approach is to vary the thickness of lines to …

Bridging Network Science and Vision Science: Map** Perceptual Mechanisms to Network Visualization Tasks

SS Bae, K Cave, C Görg, P Rosen… - … on Visualization and …, 2025‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network visualizations are understudied in graphical perception. As a result, most network
visualization designs still largely rely on designer intuition and algorithm optimizations rather …

Preserving command line workflow for a package management system using ASCII DAG visualization

KE Isaacs, T Gamblin - IEEE transactions on visualization and …, 2018‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Package managers provide ease of access to applications by removing the time-consuming
and sometimes completely prohibitive barrier of successfully building, installing, and …

Progress on partial edge drawings

T Bruckdorfer, S Cornelsen, C Gutwenger… - … Symposium on Graph …, 2012‏ - Springer
Recently, a new way of avoiding crossings in straight-line drawings of non-planar graphs
has been investigated. The idea of partial edge drawings (PED) is to drop the middle part of …