The effect of text and background colour on visual search of Web pages

Displays

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 223-230

  Ling, Jonathan ^a   Van Schaik, Paul ^a  

^a TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Colour; Usability; Visual search; Web

Indexed keywords

ONLINE SEARCHING; USABILITY ENGINEERING; WEB BROWSERS; WEBSITES;

VISUAL SEARCH;

COLOR COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 0036840272     PISSN: 01419382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0141-9382(02)00041-0     Document Type: Article

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