Legibility of small icons with color combinations in small displays

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 191-200

  Huang, Shih Miao ^a  

^a NATIONAL FORMOSA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOR VISION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; READING; RECEPTIVE FIELD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; READING; SIZE PERCEPTION;

EID: 34247536278     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/PMS.104.1.191-200     Document Type: Article

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