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The Distance-Similarity Metaphor in Region-Display Spatializations
July/August 2006 (vol. 26 no. 4)
pp. 34-44
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Sara Irina Fabrikant, Daniel R. Montello, David M. Mark, "The Distance-Similarity Metaphor in Region-Display Spatializations," IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 34-44, July/August, 2006.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MCG.2006.90,
author = {Sara Irina Fabrikant and Daniel R. Montello and David M. Mark},
title = {The Distance-Similarity Metaphor in Region-Display Spatializations},
journal ={IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications},
volume = {26},
number = {4},
issn = {0272-1716},
year = {2006},
pages = {34-44},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MCG.2006.90},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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TY - MGZN
JO - IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
TI - The Distance-Similarity Metaphor in Region-Display Spatializations
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SN - 0272-1716
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EPD - 34-44
A1 - Sara Irina Fabrikant,
A1 - Daniel R. Montello,
A1 - David M. Mark,
PY - 2006
KW - information visualization
KW - spatialization
KW - cartography
KW - perception
KW - region
KW - distance
KW - similarity
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JA - IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
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Sara Irina Fabrikant, University of Zurich
Daniel R. Montello, University of California at Santa Barbara
David M. Mark, University at Buffalo, SUNY
Region-display spatializations represent documents metaphorically as points within regions. Semantic interrelatedness is expressed by some combination of interpoint distance and region membership. In two experiments, the authors investigate judgments of document similarity as a function of these variables. Distance matters, but region membership largely determines judged similarity; hue further modifies it.

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Index Terms:
information visualization, spatialization, cartography, perception, region, distance, similarity
Citation:
Sara Irina Fabrikant, Daniel R. Montello, David M. Mark, "The Distance-Similarity Metaphor in Region-Display Spatializations," IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 34-44, July/Aug. 2006, doi:10.1109/MCG.2006.90
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