Multiple factors that determine performance with tables and graphs

Human Factors

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 268-286

  Meyer, Joachim ^a   Shinar, David ^a   Leiser, David ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; GRAPHIC METHODS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

INFORMATION EXTRACTION TASKS; MULTIPLE FACTORS METHOD;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DISPLAY SYSTEM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0031171171     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/001872097778543921     Document Type: Article

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