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Conference companion on Human factors in computing systems: common ground table of contents
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Pages: 371 - 372  
Year of Publication: 1996
ISBN:0-89791-832-0
Author
William Horton  William Horton Consulting, 838 Spruce Street, Boulder, CO
Sponsor
SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction
Publisher
ACM  New York, NY, USA
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REFERENCES

Note: OCR errors may be found in this Reference List extracted from the full text article. ACM has opted to expose the complete List rather than only correct and linked references.

 
1
Jacques Bertin, Semiology of graphics, University of Wisconsin Press, 1983
 
2
Bodmer, Frederick. The Loom of Language: An Approach to the Mastery of Many Languages. New York: W.W. Norton, 1944.
 
3
Bruce, Vicki and Patrick Green. Visual Perception: Physiology, Psychology and Ecology. Hove, UK. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1990.
 
4
Dreyfuss, Henry. Symbol Sourcebook: An Authoritative Guide to International Graphic Symbols. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1984.
 
5
Gombrich, E. H. Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969.
 
6
William K. Horton, The ICON Book: Visual Symbols for Computer Systems and Documentation, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 1994
 
7
Humphreys, Glyn and Vicki Bruce. Visual Cognition" Computational Experimental and Neuropsychological Perspectives. Hove, UK: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1989.
 
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Scott Jones , Cynthia Kennelly , Claudia Mueller , Marcia Sweezy , Bill Thomas , Lydia Velez, Developing international user information, Digital Press, Newton, MA, 1991

CITED BY  2
J. P. Lewis , Ruth Rosenholtz , Nickson Fong , Ulrich Neumann, VisualIDs: automatic distinctive icons for desktop interfaces, ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), v.23 n.3, August 2004
Indrani Medhi , Archana Prasad , Kentaro Toyama, Optimal audio-visual representations for illiterate users of computers, Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web, May 08-12, 2007, Banff, Alberta, Canada

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.2 User Interfaces (D.2.2, H.1.2, I.3.6)
          Subjects: Graphical user interfaces (GUI)

Additional Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.1 MODELS AND PRINCIPLES


General Terms:
Design, Human Factors, Management, Performance, Theory

Collaborative Colleagues:
William Horton: colleagues

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