The effects of presentation method and information density on visual search ability and working memory load

Computers and Education

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 721-731

  Chang, Ting Wen ^a   Kinshuk, ^b,c   Chen, Nian Shing ^d   Yu, Pao Ta ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b ATHABASCA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Department of Information Management ^*  (Canada)

^d NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Computer mediated communication; Human computer interface; Multimedia hypermedia systems

Indexed keywords

CHANGE DETECTION; COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; DOT ARRAY; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERFACES; INFORMATION DENSITY; INFORMATION PRESENTATION; LIMITED CAPACITY; LIMITED INFORMATION; MULTIMEDIA/HYPERMEDIA SYSTEMS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VISUAL SEARCH; WORKING MEMORIES;

BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; DATA PROCESSING;

VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 81855207253     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2011.09.022     Document Type: Article

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