Reasons to question seven segment displays

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1431-1440

  Thimbleby, Harold ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Calculators; Dependable interaction; Number display; Number error; Procurement; Seven segment display

Indexed keywords

CALCULATORS; CRITICAL TASKS; DEPENDABLE INTERACTION; DESIGN QUESTIONS; ECONOMIC SENSE; PROCUREMENT; SAFETY-CRITICAL;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING;

DISPLAY DEVICES;

EID: 84877991330     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2470654.2466190     Document Type: Conference Paper

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