GVU Technical Report Number:
GIT-GVU-00-01
Title:
Evaluating Animation as a Mechanism for Maintaining Peripheral Awareness
Authors:
D. Scott McCrickard
John T. Stasko
Richard Catrambone
Abstract:
Animation is becoming increasingly used to communicate information
within some limited viewing area. Little is known, however, about the
effectiveness and the possible distractions of animation used in this
way. This article describes an initial experiment exploring the
information awareness and distraction capabilities of different styles
of animation.
Keywords:
animation, awareness, empirical evaluation, information display
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