Cognitive modeling demonstrates how people use anticipated location knowledge of menu items

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 410-417

  Hornof, Anthony J ^a   Kieras, David E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive models; Fitts' law; Menus; Visual search

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE MODEL; COGNITIVE MODELING; COGNITIVE PROCESS; EYE-AND-HAND; FITTS' LAW; HUMAN DATA; MENU ITEMS; MENUS; TARGET LOCATION; VISUAL SEARCH; VISUAL TASKS;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; DATA REDUCTION; EYE MOVEMENTS; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

COGNITIVE MODELS; VISUAL SEARCH;

EID: 0032684941     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/302979.303120     Document Type: Conference Paper

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