Displays

Objectives

• Describe the following display principles 
• Perceptual operations
• Mental models
• Attention
• Memory
• Describe principles behind alerting displays, including:
• Warnings
• Cautions
• Advisories
• Describe principles underlying appropriate labeling
• Describe the following display principles 
• Pictorial realism
• Moving part
• Redundancy gain
• Discriminability
• Proximity compatibility
• Predictive aiding
• Knowledge in the world
• Consistency 

Summary

You will design displays. The fundamentals of display design and the best practices of providing information to users is discussed in this lecture.

Video 

Reference Materials

An excellent reference on design of systems required to alert the user is here - http://www.kitchensoap.com/2013/07/22/owning-attention-considerations-for-alert-design/ 

One of the things you will be called on to do is to display complex information in a display and you will also be asked to make it simple. Good luck - but here is some help, a gallery of widgets just for that purpose and all ones that you will soon be able to use (after COP4813) - The D3 Gallery https://github.com/d3/d3/wiki/Gallery 

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