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Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers (대한산업공학회)
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A Study of PDAs Icon Design Guideline Considered User's Cognitive Human Factor

사용자 인지특성을 고려한 PDA아이콘 설계지침에 관한 연구

  • Kim, Sang-hwan (Interaction Part, Software Center, Samsung Electronics Co, Ltd.) ;
  • Myung, Rohae (Department of Industrial Systems & Information Engineering, Korea University)
  • 김상환 (삼성전자 소프트웨어센터) ;
  • 명노해 (고려대학교 산업시스템정보공학과)
  • Published : 2004.12.31
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Abstract

Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) have become ubiquitous and continued to gain popularity. Since PDAs have some special contexts such as mobility and limited screen size, icons are utilized frequently because icons allow us to do tasks more rapidly and effectively on PDAs like another information appliances. The study presents a cognitive approach to study human factors affecting icon design with multidimensional Scaling (MDS) analysis. In the experiment, a real PDA was used to investigate 29 attributes and2 preference ratings for 22 PDA icons by 20 Korean subjects. As a result, cognitive positioning about icons, attributes, and preference data were arranged on the two dimensional perceptual map. Attributes were grouped by simplicity, universality, activity, complexity, abstraction, static, and alphanumeric time. Subjects preferences were highly related with simplicity attributes group and positive to universality and activity attributes groups. It was also confirmed that there are some icons unfitted to the mental model of Korean. However, when icons are designed for PDAs or similar information appliances to Korean, it should be designed simply and actively with universal image fitted on target users mental model.

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