Impact of information overload for visual search on web pages: An eye-tracking study

2010 IEEE/ICME International Conference on Complex Medical Engineering, CME2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 260-264

  Lu, Wanxuan ^a   Li, Mi ^a,b   Lu, Shengfu ^a   Song, Yangyang ^a   Yin, Jingjing ^a   Zhong, Ning ^a,c  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b LIAONING SHIHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c MAEBASHI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EYE-TRACKING; FIXATION DURATION; INFORMATION OVERLOADS; INFORMATION QUANTITY; SEARCH TIME; VISUAL SEARCH; WEB PAGE;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; EXPERIMENTS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 77957823370     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCME.2010.5558831     Document Type: Conference Paper

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