Predicting the readibility of transparent text

Journal of Vision

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 653-666

  Scharff, Lauren F V ^a   Ahumada Jr , Albert J ^b  

^a STEPHEN F AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Luminance contrast gain; Masking; Text contrast; Transparent displays; Vision models; Word search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE DISPLAY; LIQUID CRYSTAL; LUMINANCE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; READING; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MASKING; ADOLESCENT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; LIGHT; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; HUMANS; LIGHT; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; READING; VISION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0037500054     PISSN: 15347362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/2.9.7     Document Type: Article

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