Design and evaluation of icons for 3D GUI on tablets

  • Authors:
  • Minna Pakanen;Leena Arhippainen;Seamus Hickey

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Oulu, Finland;University of Oulu, Finland;University of Oulu, Finland

  • Venue:
  • Proceeding of the 16th International Academic MindTrek Conference
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Three dimensional applications and games have become popular in tablet devices. Despite this, there is limited research about 3D icons in 3D space on touch screen tablet devices. In this paper we describe users' preferences on 2D, '2D in a 3D Block' and 3D icons in 3D space. The results were gathered by showing images and existing icons on a tablet devices. Our results indicate that users prefer 3D icons in a 3D space, because they look like natural interactable objects in the space. 3D icons should be designed as 3D from the beginning with unique characteristics and level of detail with shading and shadows to make them distinct from other icons and background 3D space.