Color coding of control room displays: The psychocartography of visual layering effects

Human Factors

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 477-490

  Van Laar, Darren ^a   Deshe, Ofer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL DISPLAYS; ERROR RATES; PSYCHOCARTOGRAPHY; VISUAL LAYERING;

AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL; DISPLAY DEVICES; ECOLOGY;

COLOR CODES;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN FACTORS RESEARCH; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COLOR; DATA DISPLAY; FEMALE; FORMS AND RECORDS CONTROL; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WORKLOAD;

EID: 34249006919     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/001872007X200111     Document Type: Article

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