Editor’s-' Note: This article was prepared at my
Invitation following a discussion with the
Editorial board over a rather ironic situation that we face in reviewing manuscripts. Whereas one would expect a discipline that claims special expertise in information display to be exemplary in presenting it’s own graphic material for publication. We find quite the contrary. The illustrations accompanying the typical manuscript submitted to Human Factors border on the abysmal. So I decided to approach several well-known researchers in this topic area with the idea of distilling their expertis into a set of useful guidelines. They agreed. However, for the sake of consistency. I felt it necessary to have the manuscript reviewed, and it was by the HFES communications and Publications Subcouncil. The end result is published here for the benefit of all would-be authors.
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