Toward a definition of visual complexity as an implicit measure of cognitive load

ACM Transactions on Applied Perception

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Harper, Simon ^a   Michailidou, Eleni ^a   Stevens, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Knowledge elicitation; Semantic Web; Visual complexity; Visual impairment; Web accessibility

Indexed keywords

CAN DESIGNS; CARD-SORTING; COGNITIVE LOADS; IMPLICIT MEASURES; KNOWLEDGE ELICITATION; VISUAL COMPLEXITY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VISUAL PERCEPTIONS; WEB ACCESSIBILITY; WEB PAGES;

INFORMATION THEORY; SEMANTIC WEB; SEMANTICS; WORLD WIDE WEB;

IMAGE CODING;

EID: 63049083404     PISSN: 15443558     EISSN: 15443965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1498700.1498704     Document Type: Article

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