Visual Displays: the highlighting Paradox
Human Factors
Visual information foraging in a focus + context visualization
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Cognitive walkthrough for the web
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The effects of information scent on visual search in the hyperbolic tree browser
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
Repairing usability problems identified by the cognitive walkthrough for the web
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Information structure and practice as facilitators of deaf users' navigation in textual websites
Behaviour & Information Technology
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
This image smells good: effects of image information scent in search engine results pages
Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
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In the context of an information search task, does the visual salience of items interact with information scent? That is, do things like bold headlines or highlighted phrases interact with local semantic cues about the usefulness of distal sources of information? Most research on visual search and highlighting has used stimuli with no semantic content, while studies on information search have assumed equal visual salience of items in the search space. In real information environments like the Web, however, these things do not occur in isolation. Thus, we used a laboratory study to examine how these factors interact. The almost perfectly additive results imply that good information scent cannot overcome poor visual cues, or vice versa, and that both factors are equally important.