Improving searching and reading performance: The effect of highlighting and text color coding

Information and Management

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 617-637

  Wu, Jen Her ^a   Yuan, Yufei ^b  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blinking; Color combination; Highlighting; Reading performance analysis; Reverse video; User interface design

Indexed keywords

COLOR CODES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TEXT PROCESSING; USER INTERFACES;

COLOR COMBINATION;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 0042131558     PISSN: 03787206     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-7206(02)00091-5     Document Type: Article

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