Making the constraints visible: Testing the ecological approach to interface design

Ergonomics

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-27

  Effken, Judith A ^a   Kim, Nam Gyoon ^a   Shaw, Robert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological display design; Expertise; Graphical displays; Haemodynamic monitoring; Intensive care monitoring; Object displays

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER AIDED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSTRAINT THEORY; HEMODYNAMICS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MEDICAL IMAGING; USER INTERFACES;

ANATOMICAL CONSTRAINTS; ECOLOGICAL DISPLAY DESIGN;

ERGONOMICS;

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD PRESSURE; COMPUTER MODEL; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; NORMAL HUMAN; NURSE; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA DISPLAY; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 0031029097     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/001401397188341     Document Type: Article

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