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Towards Determinants of User-Intuitive Web Interface Signs

Muhammad Nazrul Islam, Towards Determinants of User-Intuitive Web Interface Signs. In: Aaron Marcus (Ed.), 15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8012, 84–93, Springer, 2013.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39229-0_10

Abstract:

User interfaces of web applications encompass a number of objects
like navigation links, buttons, icons, labels, thumbnails, symbols, etc. which are
defined in this paper as interface signs. Designing interface signs to be intuitive
to the users is widely accepted to have a significant effect on enhancing web
usability. Interface signs design principles are semiotics by nature, as semiotics
is the doctrine of signs. Thus, the fundamental objective of this study is to
reveal the determinants of user-intuitive interface signs for enhancing web
usability from a semiotics perspective. To attain this research objective, an
extensive user study was conducted with twenty six participants following a
semi-structured interview approach. The preliminary results provide a number
of determinants and their attributes to interpret properly the meaning of
interface signs.

BibTeX entry:

@INPROCEEDINGS{inpIslam_MuhammadNazrul13a,
  title = {Towards Determinants of User-Intuitive Web Interface Signs},
  booktitle = {15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction},
  author = {Islam, Muhammad Nazrul},
  volume = {8012},
  series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  editor = {Marcus, Aaron},
  publisher = {Springer},
  pages = {84–93},
  year = {2013},
  keywords = {Semiotics, interface sign, web usability, user interface design, web sign ontology},
}

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