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The benefits of synchronous collaborative information visualization : evidence from an experimental evaluation

Bresciani, Sabrina ; Eppler, Martin J.

In: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2009, vol. 15, no. 6, p. 1073-1080

A great corpus of studies reports empirical evidence of how information visualization supports comprehension and analysis of data. The benefits of visualization for synchronous group knowledge work, however, have not been addressed extensively. Anecdotal evidence and use cases illustrate the benefits of synchronous collaborative information visualization, but very few empirical studies have...