Acknowledgements

We would like to thank Dr. Ben Shneiderman for his guidance in choosing an experiment topic, and for providing the resources (Spotfire v2.0).

We would like to thank Dr. Jayanta Sircar for allowing us to use the computer facilities at Information Technologies at the School of Engineering, for running our experiment. We would also like to thank Dr. Michelle Hugue for allowing us to use students of her CMSC311 class as test subjects.

Credits go to Spotfire AB for creating the Spotfire visualization tool.