Effects of luminance and colour contrast on the search of information on display devices

Displays

Volumn 24, Issue 4-5, 2003, Pages 167-178

  Ojanpää, Helena ^a,b   Näsänen, Risto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

Author keywords

Colour; Eye movements; Luminance contrast; Reading; User interfaces; Visual search

Indexed keywords

COLOR; EYE MOVEMENTS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; SENSORY PERCEPTION; USER INTERFACES;

LUMINANCE CONTRAST; READING; VISUAL SEARCH;

DISPLAY DEVICES;

EID: 18544391820     PISSN: 01419382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.displa.2004.01.003     Document Type: Article

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