An intuitive model of perceptual grouping for HCI design

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1331-1340

  Rosenholtz, Ruth ^a   Twarog, Nathaniel R ^a   Schinkel Bielefeld, Nadja ^a   Vvattenberg, Martin ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Contour integration; Gestalt; Good continuation; Grouping; Perceptual organization; Proximity; Similarity

Indexed keywords

CONTOUR INTEGRATION; GESTALT; GOOD CONTINUATION; GROUPING; PERCEPTUAL ORGANIZATION; PROXIMITY; SIMILARITY;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; USER INTERFACES;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 84892448665     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1518701.1518903     Document Type: Conference Paper

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