Why icons cannot stand alone

  • Authors:

  • Katherine Haramundanis

  • Affiliations:

  • Digital Equipment Corporation

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGDOC Asterisk Journal of Computer Documentation
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

What is the point of this paper? That an icon is like a logogram, the type of object that was created at the start of the development of writing; therefore, when first seen, an icon cannot be expected to stand alone, without descriptive, supporting material supplied as written text.