ABSTRACT
One area that would clearly benefit from this kind of attention is the subject of display selection and design. Detailed analyses have been performed on many different aspects of display design, producing an extensive body of knowledge for designers to draw upon. This knowledge has been summarized and tabulated in many forms in human factors textbooks and other literature. However, as extensive as this collective body of knowledge is, there are several considerations which inhibit the ability of practitioners to extract and codify this knowledge to form the basis for computer-aided design tools:
1. Recommendations are usually made based on one or perhaps two individual factors, rather than considering the entire situation.
