Assessing the impact of typeface design in a text-rich automotive user interface

Ergonomics

Volumn 57, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1643-1658

  Reimer, Bryan ^a   Mehler, Bruce ^a   Dobres, Jonathan ^a   Coughlin, Joseph F ^a   Matteson, Steve ^b   Gould, David ^b   Chahine, Nadine ^b   Levantovsky, Vladimir ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Monotype Imaging   (United States)

Author keywords

Display; Distraction; Driving; Legibility; Typography

Indexed keywords

CRASHWORTHINESS; DISPLAY DEVICES; OFF ROAD VEHICLES; TYPESETTING; VEHICLE PERFORMANCE; VEHICLES;

DISTRACTION; DRIVER-VEHICLE INTERFACES; DRIVING; DRIVING SIMULATOR; LEGIBILITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TYPOGRAPHY; VEHICLE INTERFACE;

USER INTERFACES;

CASE REPORT; DRIVER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMANISM; MALE; PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; ADULT; AGED; CAR; CAR DRIVING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; STANDARDS;

ADULT; AGED; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; AUTOMOBILES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84905289380     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: 13665847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00140139.2014.940000     Document Type: Article

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