Previous research has suggested that making certain items visually salient, or highlighting, can speed performance in a visual search task. But designers of interfaces cannot always easily anticipate a user's target, and highlighting items other than the target can be associated with performance decrements. three experiments were performed which demonstrated that people's performance in a visual search task is differentially sensitive to highlighting's predictiveness of target location. That sensitivity depends upon the proportion of instances in which highlighting actually predicts target location. A cognitive model constructed using the ACT-R architecture inferred that people evaluate and adjust their visual search behavior at a very small level of the task. / pages 71-83 and 88-95 are missing from hard copy of text
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:RICE/oai:scholarship.rice.edu:1911/71883 |
| Date | January 2006 |
| Creators | Tamborello, Franklin Patrick II |
| Contributors | Byrne, Michael D. |
| Source Sets | Rice University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis, Text |
| Format | 83 pp, application/pdf |
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