The role of colour preattentive processing in human-computer interaction task efficiency: A preliminary study

International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics

Volumn 38, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 321-332

  Michalski, R ^a   Grobelny, J ^a  

^a WROCLAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Dialogue windows; Graphical objects; Human computer interface design; Search task efficiency; Visual preattentive processing

Indexed keywords

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; STRUCTURAL PANELS;

BACKGROUND COLOURS; GRAPHICAL OBJECTS; VISUAL PREATTENTIVE PROCESSING;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLOR; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 40849136063     PISSN: 01698141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ergon.2007.11.002     Document Type: Article

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