A rule of thumb of icons' visual distinctiveness

Proceedings of the Conference on Universal Usability

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 159-160

  Kurniawan, Hastuti ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Human computer interaction; Icon; Visual modality

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; VISION AIDS;

SPATIAL FREQUENCY; THRESHOLD CONTRAST;

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES;

EID: 0034592939     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/355460.355558     Document Type: Conference Paper

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