Visual Thinking: for Design (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies)
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Visual Thinking: for Design (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies)

for certain combinations of targets and distracters the time to respond did not depend on the number of distracters.
Each part of the system is doing what it does best. The computer can pre-process vast amounts of information. The human can do rapid pattern analysis and flexible decision making.
The cognitive thread is the sequence of concepts that are held actively in visual and verbal working memories, together with the links between them.♦
revolution is taking place in the science of
The most important and frequent visual queries should be supported with the most visually distinct objects.
All too often, artificial information displays lack visual structure at different scales.
How about using a tree map for searching? It has a great hierarchical structure
Explicit memory is what we can explicitly recall and describe when we are given a long-term memory test
designing for narrative is very different from designing for information seeking.
if you wish to make several things easily searchable at the same time? The solution is to use different channels.