Visual search performance with complete and incomplete visual lobe areas
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1Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Abstract:
A simulation study of the effects of visual lobe shape and search strategy on search performance is reported. Using a homogeneous pattern search task that did not dictate eye fixation movements (as in reading), three basic categories of strategy and two lobe shapes were tested. Random strategies with controlled overlap of lobe areas, representing various degrees of memory, were found to produce better performance (faster search times with equal or better detection rates) than either a completely random strategy or systematic strategies with various degrees of controlled visual lobe area overlap. The controlled overlap random strategies were far better able to compensate for non-optimum interfixation distances and distortion of visual lobe shape than systematic strategies.
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