Effects of extra information on TV viewers' visual attention, message processing ability, and cognitive workload

Computers in Entertainment

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Kallenbach, Jan ^a   Närhi, Silja ^a   Oittinen, Pirkko ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Eye tracking; Memory; Recognition; Television; Visual attention; Workload

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; TELEVISION; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EYE TRACKING; VISUAL ATTENTION; WORKLOAD;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 34548271459     PISSN: 15443574     EISSN: 15443981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1279540.1279548     Document Type: Article

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