Perceived Visual Complexity and Visual Search Performance of Automotive Instrument Cluster: A Quantitative Measurement Study

International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 890-900

  Yoon, Sol Hee ^a   Lim, Ji Hyoun ^b   Ji, Yong Gu ^a  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

USER INTERFACES;

IN-VEHICLE APPLICATIONS; INSTRUMENT CLUSTERS; OBJECTIVE MEASUREMENT; QUANTITATIVE MEASUREMENT; SUBJECTIVE PERCEPTIONS; USER EXPERIMENTS; VISUAL COMPLEXITY; VISUAL INFORMATION;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84949462694     PISSN: 10447318     EISSN: 15327590     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10447318.2015.1069661     Document Type: Article

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