A usability study of webmaps with eye tracking tool: The effects of iconic representation of information

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5610 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2009, Pages 12-21

  Alaçam, Özge ^a   DalcI, Mustafa ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cognitive processes; Eye tracking; Iconic representations; The efficiency of pop ups; Usability; Web mapping

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE PROCESSES; EYE TRACKING; ICONIC REPRESENTATIONS; THE EFFICIENCY OF POP-UPS; USABILITY; WEB MAPPING;

EYE MOVEMENTS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; TRACKING (POSITION);

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 70350327752     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02574-7_2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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