Visualizing uncertainty: The impact on performance

Human Factors

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 509-520

  Kirschenbaum, Susan S ^a   Trafton, J Gregory ^b   Schunn, Christian D ^c   Trickett, Susan B ^b  

^a NAVAL UNDERSEA WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

cognitive processes; decision making; knowledge representation; naturalistic decision making; problem solving; reasoning

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SUBMARINES;

AREA OF UNCERTAINTY; COGNITIVE PROCESS; NATURALISTIC DECISION MAKINGS; REASONING; TABULAR REPRESENTATIONS; UNCERTAIN INFORMATIONS; UNCERTAINTY REPRESENTATION; VISUALIZING UNCERTAINTIES;

UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

ARTICLE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MILITARY MEDICINE; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNCERTAINTY; VISION;

DATA DISPLAY; HUMANS; SUBMARINE MEDICINE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84899021242     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: 15478181     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018720813498093     Document Type: Article

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