Cultural influences on the comprehensibility of icons in mobile-computer interaction

Behaviour and Information Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 331-337

  Pappachan, P ^a   Ziefle, M ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Abstractness; Culture; Familiarity; Icon characteristics; Mobile devices; Pictorial transparency; Semantic comprehensibility; Visual complexity

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INFORMATION THEORY; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; TELECOMMUNICATION; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; TRANSPARENCY;

COMPUTER INTERACTIONS; COMPUTING SYSTEMS; CULTURAL INFLUENCES; MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; MOBILE CONTEXT; MOBILE-PHONE FUNCTIONS; SOUTH INDIA; VISUAL COMPLEXITY;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 48249105852     PISSN: 0144929X     EISSN: 13623001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01449290802228399     Document Type: Conference Paper

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