Design standards for icons: The independent role of aesthetics, visual complexity and concreteness in icon design and icon understanding

Collaud, Romain; Reppa, Irene; Défayes, Lara; McDougall, Siné; Henchoz, Nicolas; Sonderegger, Andreas

doi:10.1016/j.displa.2022.102290

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“…Firstly, prioritize pictographic information over text-based messages in visual interfaces whenever applicable, emphasising information that is readily understood by drivers [56]. There are several guidelines specific to pictographic information and icons that can support the design of such elements [57,58]. Secondly, when explaining the behaviour of autonomous systems, it is crucial to consider how to improve the system transparency and visibility of the explanatory information.…”

Section: Design Implications and Future Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Analysing the Effects of Scenario-Based Explanations on Automated Vehicle HMIs from Objective and Subjective Perspectives

Ma,

Feng

2023

Sustainability

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Automated vehicles (AVs) are recognized as one of the most effective measures to realize sustainable transport. These vehicles can reduce emissions and environmental pollution, enhance accessibility, improve safety, and produce economic benefits through congestion reduction and cost savings. However, the consumer acceptance of and trust in these vehicles are not ideal, which affects the diffusion speed of AVs on the market. Providing transparent explanations of AV behaviour is a method for building confidence and trust in AV technologies. In this study, we investigated the explainability of user interface information in an Automated Valet Parking (AVP) system—one of the first L4 automated driving systems with a large commercial landing. Specifically, we proposed a scenario-based explanation framework based on explainable AI and examined the effects of these explanations on drivers’ objective and subjective performance. The results of Experiment 1 indicated that the scenario-based explanations effectively improved drivers’ situational trust and user experience (UX), thereby enhancing the perception and understanding that drivers had of the system’s intelligence capabilities. These explanations significantly reduced the mental workload and elevated the user performance in objective evaluations. In Experiment 2, we uncovered distinct explainability preferences among new and frequent users. New users sought increased trust and transparency, benefiting from guided explanations. In contrast, frequent users emphasised efficiency and driving safety. The final experimental results confirmed that solutions customised for different segments of the population are significantly more effective, satisfying, and trustworthy than generic solutions. These findings demonstrate that the explanations for individual differences, based on our proposed scenario-based framework, have significant implications for the adoption and sustainability of AVs.

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Section: Design Implications and Future Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Analysing the Effects of Scenario-Based Explanations on Automated Vehicle HMIs from Objective and Subjective Perspectives

Ma,

Feng

2023

Sustainability

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“…At the same time, a number of studies deal with the issues of the influence of task properties upon the manifestations of experience dependent on user traits, where user traits are not only sociodemographic (like age or gender) but also cognitive. These are, i.e., the effects of the influence of the cognitive complexity of the task upon aesthetic perception [36,37]. Such studies link the process of aesthetic perception and judgment to cognitive activity of a person, with his/her ability to judge reality in particular ways.…”

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confidence: 99%

Cumulative Impact of Testing Factors in Usability Tests for Human-Centered Web Design

Yakunin¹,

Bodrunova²

2022

Future Internet

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The study examines the cumulative impact of factors that affect usability testing for user-centered web design, namely the so-called ‘contextual fidelity model’ factors that include product properties, task features, user traits, and environment/context factors. Today, the design, user experience and usability (DUXU) research experiences a lack of studies that would assess combinatorial, rather than individual, effects of these factors upon user performance. We address this gap by seeing both independent factors and the resulting user states as complex and dynamic, and testing the combined impact of aesthetic quality of websites, user traits, and individual/group experiment settings upon formation of two dysfunctional user states that critically affect user performance, namely monotony and anxiety. We develop a research design that allows for assessing the combinatorial effects in formation of user dysfunctionality. For that, we conduct a study with 80 assessors of Russian/European and Chinese origin in individual/group setting, employing two types of tasks and websites of high/low aesthetic quality. As the results of our experiment show, group task solving enhances the synchronous impact of website aesthetics and task features upon user states. Interaction of high-quality design, group environment, and monotonous tasks provides for an antagonistic effect when aesthetic layout in a group environment significantly reduces the fatigue rate. Low aesthetic quality in a group environment leads to cumulative enhancing of dysfunctionality for both monotony and anxiety. We conclude by setting questions and prospects for further research.

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“…There are many research results on icon design, from the perspective of icon cognition, Chun-Ching Chen investigates the icon design of applications for different mobile operating systems by designing icon identification experiments based on the key components of icons, to understand the recognition performance and user preference of different icon types [2]. Romain Collaud et al, developed icon design principles of aesthetics, complexity, and concreteness [3]. Provide a reliable reference source for navigation bar icon design evaluation metrics.…”

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Measurement and Optimization of Navigation Bar Icon Design in Mental Health Apps

Wei,

Kuang,

Gao

2024

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications

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Iconic symbols in the digital age, as an important part of app design, play a central role in transmitting information between the app and the visitor. To optimize the design of mental health app navigation bar icons and improve the user experience of mental health apps. The design features are summarized by analyzing the current design status of existing mental health app navigation bar icons; the hierarchical analysis method is used to determine the evaluation index system of the navigation bar icon of the mental health app, the fuzzy judgment matrix is determined through the expert survey and the SPSS software is used to calculate the weight value of each evaluation element; redesigning mental health app navigation bar icons by refining design elements through icon recognition experiments and user preference surveys; evaluation and analysis of the program using fuzzy comprehensive evaluation to demonstrate the feasibility of this design solution. The evaluation results show that the scheme achieves the effective integration of recognizability, interactivity and aesthetics. In conclusion, a method for designing and evaluating the navigation bar icon of mental health apps based on fuzzy hierarchical analysis is proposed, and the feasibility of the method is verified through a specific design scheme.

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Design standards for icons: The independent role of aesthetics, visual complexity and concreteness in icon design and icon understanding

Cited by 14 publications

References 60 publications

Analysing the Effects of Scenario-Based Explanations on Automated Vehicle HMIs from Objective and Subjective Perspectives

Analysing the Effects of Scenario-Based Explanations on Automated Vehicle HMIs from Objective and Subjective Perspectives

Cumulative Impact of Testing Factors in Usability Tests for Human-Centered Web Design

Measurement and Optimization of Navigation Bar Icon Design in Mental Health Apps

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