Displaying uncertainty: Investigating the effects of display format and specificity

Human Factors

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 777-796

  Bisantz, Ann M ^a,b   Marsiglio, Stephanie Schinzing ^a,c   Munch, Jessica ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b the State University of New York   (United States)

^c IBM   (United States)

^d NAVAL SURFACE WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMAND AND CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DECISION MAKING; MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS; PERFORMANCE; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS;

DECISION-MAKING TASKS; DISPLAY FORMATS; LINGUISTIC PHRASES; NONNUMERIC REPRESENTATIONS;

DISPLAY DEVICES;

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PERFORMANCE; PROBABILITY; SIMULATION; UNCERTAINTY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATA DISPLAY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNCERTAINTY; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 33646122011     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/001872005775570916     Document Type: Article

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