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Visual Search Techniques and Performance in Electronic Map Display

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The appropriate visual search techniques and visual display methods lead to the most effective and quickest way of extracting information during visual search tasks. Visual search time and performance in visual display terminals can be influenced by various parameters, such as an amount of the clutter objects and the screen size. This paper investigated the visual search techniques and performance using radar interface with different symbols that vary in color and features. Thirty-six subjects participated in the study and experiments were performed on separate monitors whose screen size is 7, 15 and 21 in. , the visual angles are experimentally set to be 45; 55; 65; 75 and 85 min of arc. This article took into considerations various performance variables such as completion time, fixation duration etc. to complete the visual search investigation. It was confirmed that the accuracy is highly affected by many clutter objects in the region surrounding a target.

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The research team gratefully acknowledges the financial and academic support of the Chinese Scholarship Council in conjunction with Harbin Engineering University and the University of Rwanda.

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  1. School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Nantong Street, No. 145-1, PO. Box 150001, Harbin City, China

    Yan Shengyuan & Jean Luc Habiyaremye

  2. School of Science and Technology, University of Rwanda, PO. Box 3900, Kigali, Rwanda

    Jean Luc Habiyaremye

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Shengyuan, Y., Habiyaremye, J.L. (2018). Visual Search Techniques and Performance in Electronic Map Display. In: Nunes, I. (eds) Advances in Human Factors and Systems Interaction. AHFE 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 592. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60366-7_13

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