Information salience and interpreting information

Authors:
Michael J. Albers
Affiliations:
East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
Venue:
SIGDOC '07 Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication
Year:
2007

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Abstract

The information available for many situations often causes information overload. To help prevent this overload, the designer and writer need to carefully consider the issues of what are the most salient information elements for the reader and what can be done to queue the reader that this is the most salient information.