[CST-2] HCI: Hick's Law & visual search

[Matthew Monaghan]

On Sun, 2 Jun 2002, Shahrum Gilani wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was going through the HCI notes and I've pencilled down from the lectures
> that finding a letter in a list of N letters takes kN time. But surely this
> contradicts what's said in Hick's Law? Have I missed something, or have I
> just written down the wrong thing?

Hick's law applies to a field of objects, ie.  a 2d set of them.
The kN thingy is for a 1d list.

cya
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Matt