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The Effects of Icon Characteristics on Users’ Perception

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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.

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  1. Computer and Information Sciences Department, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Tronoh, Perak, Malaysia

    Syed Ghayas, Suziah Sulaiman & Jafreezal Jaafar

  2. Department of Computer Science, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan

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  1. Institute of Visual Informatics, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia

    Halimah Badioze Zaman

  2. Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, CB3 0FD, Cambridge, UK

    Peter Robinson

  3. School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Culture Lab, King’s Walk, NE1 7RU, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

    Patrick Olivier

  4. Dept. of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Central University, No 300, Jhongda Rd, Jhongli, Taiwan

    Timothy K. Shih

  5. Computing and Information Systems, Kingston University, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames, KT1 2EE, London, United Kingdom

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Ghayas, S., Sulaiman, S., Khan, M., Jaafar, J. (2013). The Effects of Icon Characteristics on Users’ Perception. In: Zaman, H.B., Robinson, P., Olivier, P., Shih, T.K., Velastin, S. (eds) Advances in Visual Informatics. IVIC 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8237. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02958-0_59

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