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From: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: alt.hypertext,comp.cog-eng,comp.graphics,comp.multimedia,comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Images vs. Text
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Date: 2 Apr 91 18:03:48 GMT
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In article <10292@pitt.UUCP>, grefen@sun14.cs.pitt.edu (Gregory Grefenstette) writes:
|> I'm doing work on hypertext visual interfaces and I
|> would like to be able to prove what seems evident to me,
|> that is,  that people can scan information presented
|> in a visual image-based form FASTER than in a plain
|> textual form.

It depends on the type of information and the space allowed to display
the information.

For example, it's much slower for me to decipher a pallette of icons
that correspond to a set of operations than it is for me to decipher a
text menu in the same space.

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