Search through a sequentially presented visual display

Virtual-audio Aided Visual Search on a Desktop Display

As visual display complexity grows, visual cues and alerts may become less salient and therefore less effective. Although the auditory system’s resolution is rather coarse relative to the visual system, there is some evidence for virtual spatialized audio to benefit visual search on a small frontal region, such as a desktop monitor. Two experiments examined if search times could be reduced comp...

Discontinuity in the enumeration of sequentially presented auditory and visual stimuli.

The seeking of discontinuity in enumeration was recently renewed because Cowan [Cowan, N. (2001). The magical number 4 in short-term memory: A reconsideration of mental storage capacity. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24, 87-185; Cowan, N. (2005). Working memory capacity. Hove: Psychology Press] suggested that it allows evaluating the limit of the focus of attention, currently estimated at four...

The Influence of Display Characteristics on Visual Exploratory Search Behavior

Language Mediated Visual Search: The Role of Display Preview

Visual search efficiency is increased when the search target’s identity is revealed incrementally via language while the display is in view. One view posits that search efficiency is increased because language enhances perceptual processing. We examined an alternative view that increased efficiency is due to delaying the onset of target-seeking eye movements, allowing a preview of the search ar...

Visual Search Asymmetries in Heavy Clutter: Implications for Display Design

OBJECTIVE An experiment aimed to test whether design of symbology to produce visual search asymmetries might facilitate target detection in cluttered displays. BACKGROUND A visual search asymmetry exists between two stimuli when a target of one type is found efficiently among distractors of the second type but a target of the second type is found with difficulty among distractors of the first...