Managing metaphors for advanced user interfaces
AVI '94 Proceedings of the workshop on Advanced visual interfaces
Software for use: a practical guide to the models and methods of usage-centered design
Software for use: a practical guide to the models and methods of usage-centered design
Human-Computer Interaction
A semiotic-based framework to user interface design
Proceedings of the second Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction
Semiotic approaches to user interface design
CHI '00 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A semiotic engineering approach to HCI
CHI '01 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The semiotics of user interface redesign
AUIC '05 Proceedings of the Sixth Australasian conference on User interface - Volume 40
Novice Word Processor User Performance with Pictorial and Text Icons
APCHI '08 Proceedings of the 8th Asia-Pacific conference on Computer-Human Interaction
Keeping up appearances: interpretation of tangible artifact design
Proceedings of the 5th Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction: building bridges
How novices model business processes
BPM'10 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Business process management
How novices design business processes
Information Systems
Investigating affordances of virtual worlds for real world B2C e-commerce
BCS-HCI '11 Proceedings of the 25th BCS Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
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User interface designers still have to rely on personal creativity and skill when designing computer icons for program functions that have no existing conventional representation. Further, designers often stumble upon usable icons by trial and error. We designed an Icon Intuitiveness Test to gain better insight into how users interpret icons. Our hypothesis was that users would interpret icons they do not know the functionality of as iconic signs [1] by assuming that the icon looks like the functionality it represents. Our study suggests that participants do indeed base their guesses on the visual clues they can see and interpret the unknown icon as having the functionality they think it resembles.