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Ergonomic Design Issues in Icons Used in Digital Cameras in India

Ergonomic Design Issues in Icons Used in Digital Cameras in India

Prabir Mukhopadhyay
Copyright: © 2013 |Volume: 3 |Issue: 2 |Pages: 12
ISSN: 2155-4196|EISSN: 2155-420X|EISBN13: 9781466633773|DOI: 10.4018/ijacdt.2013070104
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Mukhopadhyay, Prabir. "Ergonomic Design Issues in Icons Used in Digital Cameras in India." IJACDT vol.3, no.2 2013: pp.51-62. http://doi.org/10.4018/ijacdt.2013070104

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Mukhopadhyay, P. (2013). Ergonomic Design Issues in Icons Used in Digital Cameras in India. International Journal of Art, Culture, Design, and Technology (IJACDT), 3(2), 51-62. http://doi.org/10.4018/ijacdt.2013070104

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Mukhopadhyay, Prabir. "Ergonomic Design Issues in Icons Used in Digital Cameras in India," International Journal of Art, Culture, Design, and Technology (IJACDT) 3, no.2: 51-62. http://doi.org/10.4018/ijacdt.2013070104

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Abstract

This paper investigates the usability of five commonly used icons in digital cameras like landscape, video, night portrait and automatic mode. In the first phase a set of 10 open type questionnaires were applied on 110 students (75 male and 35 female) to get an insight into the type of problems with the icons. The second phase comprised of 5 ranking questionnaire. The third phase comprised of icon comprehension test for getting to know the stereotype strength of the different icons. The fourth phase was stereotypy test. The second and third phases were applied on 32 students (16 male and 16 females.). For each category of icons there was one icon which was rated best and comprehended very well. For example the icon for landscape mode which represented a mountain was ranked as the best and the stereotype strength for the same was 90.6%.

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