Earcons and Icons: Their Structure and Common Design Principles

Human-Computer Interaction

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1989, Pages 11-44

  Blattner, Meera M ^a   Sumikawa, Denise A ^a   Greenberg, Robert M ^b  

^a The University of California ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE--SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

AUDIO INFORMATION; EARCONS; ICONS; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACES;

COMPUTER INTERFACES;

EID: 0024858877     PISSN: 07370024     EISSN: 15327051     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327051hci0401_1     Document Type: Article

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