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

[Alan Lawrence]

This is what our supervisor told us - essentially, by taking the things 
in the list and scattering them into a 2d field, you'll find 'em 
faster....!!

--Alan

On Sunday, June 2, 2002, at 01:35  am, 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?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Shahrum
>
>
>
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