Effect of Visual Display Scale on Duration Estimates

In: Human factors: the journal of the Human Factors Society, Band 28, Heft 2, S. 153-158

Abstract

Duration estimation is shown to be affected by the scale, or size, of visual displays. In particular, verbal estimates of the duration of a fixed interval of time tend to increase as the size of a given visual display decreases. The results are considered from two general theoretical frameworks (psychobiological chronometer and information storage-size theories).