Selection of visual display symbology: A new metric of similarity.

Author(s)
Workman, D. & Fisher, D.L.
Year
Abstract

Ideally one should like to select symbols for use in visual displays which are both meaningful representations of the objects they stand for and maximally dissimilar to one another. In this paper a new, simple- to- compute metric for rating the similarity of symbols is proposed.

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B 29910 (In: B 29901) /83.2 /91.1 /
Source

In: Proceedings of the Human Factors Society 31st Annual Meeting, New York City, October 19- 23, 1987. Rising to new heights with technology, p.510- 513, 6 ref. Volume I.

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