EXPERIMENTS IN VISUAL SEARCH

SOME OF THE FINDINGS OBTAINED IN A CONTINUING STUDY OF VISUAL SEARCH CONDUCTED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM ARE BRIEFLY DESCRIBED. THESE WERE TWO GENERAL OBJECTIVES: (1) TO PROVIDE A SOUND BODY OF EMPIRICAL DATA AND (2) TO DEVELOP A VIABLE THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK. RESULTS ARE SUMMARIZED UNDER THE FOLLOWING TOPICAL HEADINGS: SIZE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN TARGET DISK AND SURROUNDING DISKS; FITTING EXPONENTIALS; NUMBERS AND DENSITY NONTARGETS; RELATING SEARCH TIME TO TARGET-BACKGROUND CHARACTERISTICS; RELATING RESPONSE TIME TO TARGET-BACKGROUND CHARACTERISTICS; AND AN INDEX OF TARGET DIFFICULTY. GRAPHICAL ILLUSTRATIONS AND TABULAR DATA ARE INCLUDED.

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  Visual Search

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• Authors:
  • Bloomfield, J R
• Publication Date: 1973

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 1-25

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Graphics; Tables (Data); Theory; Time
• Uncontrolled Terms: Data; Graphical analysis; Visual search
• Old TRIS Terms: Searching
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00222240
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 4 1973 12:00AM