Windows Display Design Techniques

Configural Display Design Techniques Considered at Multiple Levels of Evaluation

Two studies were conducted to examine issues in the design and evaluation of configural displays. Four design techniques (bar graphs/extenders, scale markers/ scale grids, color coding/color layering/color separation, and annotation with digital values) were applied, alone and in combination, to a baseline configural display, forming 10 displays. Two qualitatively different evaluations assessed...

Assisted Design Techniques for Display Oriented Embedded Systems

An approach to the design of display controller macrocells for embedded systems is described. This is based on algorithm modelling in a Win32 based framework that allows the rapid evaluation of algorithms for display processing and the assessment of hardware and software resource implications. The paper outlines the implementation design and some application examples.

WallTop: Managing Overflowing Windows on a Large Display

Reducing lighting energy use in retail display windows

A field study was conducted at three clothing stores to validate previous laboratory findings indicating that colored LEDs used as background display lighting could: 1) lower the power demand of accent lighting by up to 50 percent; and 2) provide greater attention capture and visual appeal than current lighting practice. Blue LEDs provided a colored background for window mannequins by illuminat...

DMDX: a windows display program with millisecond accuracy.

DMDX is a Windows-based program designed primarily for language-processing experiments. It uses the features of Pentium class CPUs and the library routines provided in DirectX to provide accurate timing and synchronization of visual and audio output. A brief overview of the design of the program is provided, together with the results of tests of the accuracy of timing. The Web site for download...