When does a difference make a difference? A snapshot on global icon comprehensibility

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4551 LNCS, Issue PART 2, 2007, Pages 3-12

  Auer, Sonja ^a   Dick, Ester ^a  

^a SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Icon design; Icon evaluation; Internationalization localization; Quantitative empirical user studies; User interface design; Visual design

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ICON EVALUATION; INTERNATIONALIZATION; LOCALIZATION; QUANTITATIVE EMPIRICAL USER STUDIES; USER INTERFACE DESIGN; VISUAL DESIGN;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 38149082738     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73107-8_1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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