@prefix foaf: . @prefix ns1: . @prefix ns2: . ns1:fabio-ciravegna foaf:made ns2:journal-2 . ns1:khadija-elbedweihy foaf:made ns2:journal-2 . ns1:suvodeep-mazumdar foaf:made ns2:journal-2 . ns1:vitaveska-lanfranchi foaf:made ns2:journal-2 . ns1:daniela-petrelli foaf:made ns2:journal-2 . @prefix rdf: . @prefix owl: . ns2:journal-2 rdf:type owl:Thing . @prefix ns5: . ns2:journal-2 rdf:type ns5:InProceedings . @prefix rdfs: . ns2:journal-2 rdf:type rdfs:Resource ; rdfs:label "Affective Graphs: The Visual Appeal of Linked Data" . @prefix ns7: . ns2:journal-2 owl:sameAs ns7:journal-2 . @prefix dc: . ns2:journal-2 dc:creator ns1:daniela-petrelli , ns1:vitaveska-lanfranchi , ns1:fabio-ciravegna , ns1:suvodeep-mazumdar , ns1:khadija-elbedweihy ; foaf:maker ns1:daniela-petrelli , ns1:fabio-ciravegna , ns1:suvodeep-mazumdar , ns1:vitaveska-lanfranchi , ns1:khadija-elbedweihy ; ns5:abstract "The essence and value of Linked Data lies in the ability of humans and machines to query, access and reason upon highly structured and formalised data. Ontology structures provide an unambiguous description of the structure and content of data. While a multitude of software applications and visualization systems have been developed over the past years for Linked Data, there is still a significant gap that exists between applications that consume Linked Data and interfaces that have been designed with significant focus on aesthetics. Though the importance of aesthetics in affecting the usability, effectiveness and acceptability of user interfaces have long been recognised, little or no explicit attention has been paid to the aesthetics of Linked Data applications. In this paper, we introduce a formalised approach to developing aesthetically pleasing semantic web interfaces by following aesthetic principles and guidelines identified from literature. We apply such principles to design and develop a generic approach of using visualizations to support exploration of Linked Data, in an interface that is pleasing to users. This provides users with means to browse ontology structures, enriched with statistics of the underlying data, facilitating exploratory activities and enabling visual query for highly precise information needs. We evaluated our approach in three ways: an initial objective evaluation comparing our approach with other well-known interfaces for the semantic web and two user evaluations with semantic web researchers." . @prefix ns9: . ns2:journal-2 ns5:hasAuthorList ns9:authorList . @prefix ns10: . ns2:journal-2 ns5:isPartOf ns10:proceedings . @prefix xsd: . ns2:journal-2 ns5:keyword "Aesthetics"^^xsd:string , "Information Visualisation"^^xsd:string , "Visual Analytics"^^xsd:string , "Semantic Web"^^xsd:string , "Linked Data"^^xsd:string ; ns5:title "Affective Graphs: The Visual Appeal of Linked Data" . ns10:proceedings ns5:hasPart ns2:journal-2 .