Paper Info
Title
The Effects of Icon Characteristics on Users' Perception
Abstract
Modern mobile phone application interfaces have potential to support various age group users. Among the different age groups, older adults have been quite slow in adopting mobile phone applications and its interfaces. Limited research work has been carried out to investigate the graphical icons and examine its ease of use for various age group users. This paper presents an experimental study to determine the recognition rates of icons from two sets of users with different age groups i.e. younger adults (20 — 40 years) and older adults (+50 years). Users responded to a set of questions consisting of 40 icons obtained from two different brands of mobile phones. The findings reveal that recognition rates vary depending on how familiar the icons are to the users. The results from this study could be useful to support application developers to develop mobile phone applications interfaces that are more suitable for various age group users.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1007/978-3-319-02958-0_59
IVIC
Keywords
Field
DocType
recognition,interfaces,icons characteristics,icons,familiarity,usability
Age groups,Icon,Computer science,Usability,Human–computer interaction,Mobile phone,Multimedia,Perception
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
8237
0302-9743
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.38
10
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Syed Ghayas121.05
Suziah Sulaiman23310.75
Muzafar Khan352.44
Jafreezal Jaafar43813.60