TY - JOUR
T1 - Preference ranking test for different icon design formats for smart living room and bathroom functions
AU - Chi, Chia Fen
AU - Dewi, Ratna Sari
AU - Samali, Priska
AU - Hsieh, Dong Yu
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2019/11
Y1 - 2019/11
N2 - The current study illustrates the icon design process for 20 functions for a smart living room and smart bathroom of a commercial smart building control system. For each function name, seven icon formats (image-related, concept-related, semi-abstract, arbitrary, word, abbreviation, and combined) were developed by 30 graduate students and compared with a preference ranking test by another 13 executive MBA students. The results indicated that the combined, image-related, concept-related, semi-abstract, word, and abbreviation each had nine, four, three, two, one and one function names ranked as the most preferred format, respectively. Since all the design formats except the arbitrary format were ranked as the most preferred at least once, it is worthwhile to generate seven icon formats for a given function and chose the most preferred based on the ranking test result. The participatory design and ranking test evaluation approach can be applied for the design and evaluation of visual icons in other application contexts.
AB - The current study illustrates the icon design process for 20 functions for a smart living room and smart bathroom of a commercial smart building control system. For each function name, seven icon formats (image-related, concept-related, semi-abstract, arbitrary, word, abbreviation, and combined) were developed by 30 graduate students and compared with a preference ranking test by another 13 executive MBA students. The results indicated that the combined, image-related, concept-related, semi-abstract, word, and abbreviation each had nine, four, three, two, one and one function names ranked as the most preferred format, respectively. Since all the design formats except the arbitrary format were ranked as the most preferred at least once, it is worthwhile to generate seven icon formats for a given function and chose the most preferred based on the ranking test result. The participatory design and ranking test evaluation approach can be applied for the design and evaluation of visual icons in other application contexts.
KW - Function-to-object relationship
KW - Icon taxonomy
KW - Participatory design
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U2 - 10.1016/j.apergo.2019.102891
DO - 10.1016/j.apergo.2019.102891
M3 - Article
C2 - 31422244
AN - SCOPUS:85068957712
SN - 0003-6870
VL - 81
JO - Applied Ergonomics
JF - Applied Ergonomics
M1 - 102891
ER -