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Written by the author of the best-selling HyperText & HyperMedia, this book provides an excellent guide to the methods of usability engineering. Special features: emphasizes cost-effective methods that will help developers improve their user interfaces immediately, shows you how to avoid the four most frequently listed reasons for delay in software projects, provides step-by-step information about which methods to use at various stages during the development life cycle, and offers information on the unique issues relating to informational usability. You do not need to have previous knowledge of usability to implement the methods provided, yet all of the latest research is covered.

Usability Engineering

Recent studies of eye movements in reading and other information processing tasks, such as music reading, typing, visual search, and scene perception, are reviewed. The major emphasis of the review is on reading as a specific example of cognitive processing. Basic topics discussed with respect to reading are (a) the characteristics of eye movements, (b) the perceptual span, (c) integration of information across saccades, (d) eye movement control, and (e) individual differences (including dyslexia). Similar topics are discussed with respect to the other tasks examined. The basic theme of the review is that eye movement data reflect moment-to-moment cognitive processes in the various tasks examined. Theoretical and practical considerations concerning the use of eye movement data are also discussed.

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Eye movements in reading and information processing: 20 years of research.

Partial table of contents: THE HUMAN FACTORS FUNCTION. System Design and Evaluation (S. Czaja). THE HUMAN FACTORS FUNDAMENTALS. Perceptual Motor Skills and Human Motion Analysis (D. Regan). Biomechanics of the Human Body (W. Marras). JOB DESIGN. Allocation of Functions (J. Sharit). Task Analysis (H. Luczak). EQUIPMENT, WORKPLACE, AND ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN. Biomechanical Aspects of Workplace Design (D. Chaffin). Illumination (P. Boyce). DESIGN FOR HEALTH AND SAFETY. Occupational Risk Management (B. Zimolong). PERFORMANCE MODELING. Cognitive Modeling (R. Eberts). EVALUATION. Human Factors Audits (C. Drury). HUMAN--COMPUTER INTERACTION. Software--User Interface Design (Y. Liu). SELECTED APPLICATIONS OF HUMAN FACTORS. Human Factors in Process Control (N. Moray). Indexes.

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Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics

Objective To review evidence on the impact of health warning messages on tobacco packages. Data sources Articles were identified through electronic databases of published articles, as well as relevant ‘grey’ literature using the following keywords: health warning, health message, health communication, label and labelling in conjunction with at least one of the following terms: smoking, tobacco, cigarette, product, package and pack. Study selection and data extraction: Relevant articles available prior to January 2011 were screened for six methodological criteria. A total of 94 original original articles met inclusion criteria, including 72 quantitative studies, 16 qualitative studies, 5 studies with both qualitative and qualitative components, and 1 review paper: Canada (n¼35), USA (n¼29) Australia (n¼16), UK (n¼13), The Netherlands (n¼3), France (n¼3), New Zealand (n¼3), Mexico (n¼3), Brazil (n¼2), Belgium (n¼1), other European countries (n¼10), Norway (n¼1), Malaysia (n¼1) and China (n¼1). Results The evidence indicates that the impact of health warnings depends upon their size and design: whereas obscure text-only warnings appear to have little impact, prominent health warnings on the face of packages serve as a prominent source of health information for smokers and non-smokers, can increase health knowledge and perceptions of risk and can promote smoking cessation. The evidence also indicates that comprehensive warnings are effective among youth and may help to prevent smoking initiation. Pictorial health warnings that elicit strongemotionalreactionsaresignificantlymoreeffective. Conclusions Health warnings on packages are among the most direct and prominent means of communicating with smokers. Larger warnings with pictures are significantly more effective than smaller, text-only messages.

https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/tobaccocontrol/20/5/327.full.pdf

Health warning messages on tobacco products: a review

https://www.who.int/fctc/guidelines/ArtElevenWogalterNine.pdf

Research-based guidelines for warning design and evaluation

Methods and methodology user instructions, contents and format warnings forms public forms tables - developing design through dialogue maps and plans wayfinding, signs and sign systems - graphic symbols - design and evaluation of graphic symbols.

Visual Information for Everyday Use: Design and Research Perspectives

Evaluation of a set of graphic symbols.

Estimation scores of comprehensibility were obtained for 109 hospital symbols, divided over five different sets. These scores were compared with the results of a comprehension test of those symbols. It is shown that the estimation scores can be used in a reliable way to identify good and bad symbols at an early stage. It is further demonstrated that the number of symbols to be tested for the ISO testing procedure can be substantially reduced.

Harm J. G. Zwaga

Papers

Visual Information for Everyday Use: Design and Research Perspectives

Evaluation of a set of graphic symbols.

Comprehensibility estimates of public information symbols; their validity and use

Conspicuity in realistic scenes: an eye-movement measure.

The influence of advertisements on the conspicuity of routing information.