Abstract
The social media and related applications were developed and spread fast in our daily lives. Many users of social network sites (SNS) would use social network functions to communicate with their friends, such as share, like (or dislike), check in, upload interesting information to website, etc. Research on visible icons design in SNS user interfaces were one of the most important direct manipulation research issues. Moreover, how the privacy setting in different interaction model were discussed in this study. The results showed that: (1) The well-designed icons illustrated higher concreteness, less complexity, higher familiarity and suitable semantic distance than others; (2) There existed higher privacy setting in personal photo content than landscape photo content; (3) The design element used with most highest percentage was the “man image” because the functions were related to friends’ photos and popular users’ photos in the photo sharing Apps; (4) Different privacy setting considerations were dependent on different interaction models and scenarios.
Chapter PDF
References
Apple: iPhone Human Interface Guidelines (user experience). Apple Inc., California (2010)
Benevenutoy, F., Rodriguesy, T., Cha, M., Almeida, V.: Characterizing User Behavior in Online Social Networks. In: 2009 Internet Measurement Conference, Chicago, pp. 49–62 (2009) (digital form)
Chen, C.H., Hsiao, W.H., Chen, S.C., Huang, Y.C., Wang, S.H.: User Experience Research of Kiosk Service with Social Network Function. In: 2012 International Service Innovation Design Conference, Taipei, pp. 295–303 (2012) (paper form)
Blattner, M.M., Sumikawa, D.A., Greenberg, R.M.: Earcons and Icons: Their Structure and Common Design Principles. J. Human-Computer Interaction 4, 11–44 (1989)
Isherwood, S.J., McDougall, S.J.P., Curry, M.B.: Icon Identification in Context: The Changing Role of Icon Characteristics with User Experience. J. Human Factors 49(3), 465–476 (2007)
Kolers, P.: Some Formal Characteristics of Pictograms. J. American Scientist 57(3), 348–363 (1969)
Marcus, A.: Corporate Identity for Iconic Interface Design: The Graphic Design Perspective. J. Computcr Graphics and Applications 4(12), 24–32 (1984)
McDougall, S.J.P., Curry, M.B., de Bruijn, O.: A Review of Symbol Characteristics and Their Effects on Usability (Document D1, British Aerospace Effective Symbology Project) (1996)
McDougall, S.J.P., Curry, M.B., de Bruijn, O.: Measuring Symbol and Icon Characteristics: Norms for Concreteness, Complexity, Meaningfulness, Familiarity, and Semantic Distance for 239 Symbols. J. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers 31(3), 487–519 (1999)
McDougall, S.J.P., de Bruijn, O., Curry, M.B.: Exploring the Effects of Icon Characteristics on User Performance: The Role of Icon Concreteness, Complexity, and Distinctiveness. J. Experimental Psychology: Applied 6, 291–306 (2000)
Preece, J., Shneiderman, B.: The Reader-to-Leader Framework: Motivating Technology-Mediated Social Participation. J. AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction 1(1), 13–32 (2009)
Schröder, S., Ziefle, M.: Effects of Icon Concreteness and Complexity on Semantic Transparency: Younger vs. Older Users. In: Miesenberger, K., Klaus, J., Zagler, W.L., Karshmer, A.I. (eds.) ICCHP 2008. LNCS, vol. 5105, pp. 90–97. Springer, Heidelberg (2008)
Facebook website, https://www.facebook.com
Google+ website, https://plus.google.com
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2013 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Chen, CH., Hsiao, WH., Chen, SC., Kang, YY. (2013). Usability Study of Icon Designs with Social Network Functions. In: Yamamoto, S. (eds) Human Interface and the Management of Information. Information and Interaction for Health, Safety, Mobility and Complex Environments. HIMI 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8017. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39215-3_42
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39215-3_42
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-39214-6
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-39215-3
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)