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From: alan@tivoli.UUCP (Alan R. Weiss)
Newsgroups: alt.hypertext,comp.cog-eng,comp.graphics,comp.multimedia,comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Images vs. Text
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Date: 5 Apr 91 18:46:12 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.
>
>But having little psych or human factors background,  
>I don't know of any references that I
>could use,  or even where to begin looking.
>
>Please send me some advice about sources for this
>type of research
>
>--Gregory Grefenstette


Better yet, post it to the net.  I would also be interested in
intelligent discourse on the subject.



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