Unintended effects: Varying icon spacing changes users' visual search strategy

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 695-702

  Everett, Sarah P ^a   Byrne, Michael D ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Iconic Displays; User and Cognitive Models; Visual Search

Indexed keywords

ICONIC DISPLAYS; USER AND COGNITIVE MODELS; VISUAL SEARCH;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; DATA ACQUISITION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; QUALITY CONTROL; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; USER INTERFACES;

VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 4544342830     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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