Partitioning visual displays aids task-directed visual search

Human Factors

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 551-566

  Haimson, Craig ^a,b   Bothell, Daniel ^a   Douglass, Scott A ^a,c   Anderson, John R ^a,d,e  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b APTIMA INC   (United States)

^c SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d R K Mellon University

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARIES; DISTRACTOR SYMBOLS; VISUAL SEARCH;

EYE MOVEMENTS; TARGETS;

DISPLAY DEVICES;

ARTICLE; DISTRACTIBILITY; EMPIRICISM; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PERCEPTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

ADULT; AUDIOVISUAL AIDS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; PROBABILITY; REACTION TIME; SAMPLING STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 8644248274     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/hfes.46.3.551.50399     Document Type: Article

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