Increased comprehension of warning pictorials with color highlighting

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1769-1772

  McDougald, Brannan R ^a   Wogalter, Michael S ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RELEVANT COMPONENTS; WARNING INFORMATIONS;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; PHYSICAL THERAPY; PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING;

ERGONOMICS;

EID: 81855206683     PISSN: 10711813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1177/1071181311551367     Document Type: Conference Paper

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