Effects of smartphone icon background shapes and figure/background area ratios on visual search performance and user preferences
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The optimal figure-background ratio was related to screen size; the smaller the screen, the higher the figure-background ratio.
“The optimal ratio was, however, related to a screen size; the smaller the screen, the higher the figure-background ratio [68].”
From Usability Studies on Mobile User Interface Design Patterns: A Systematic Literature Review (2017) · cites this paper as [68]
Unified background yielded better findability.
“The results showed that unified background yielded better findability.”
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- Authors
- Luo, S., & Zhou, Y.
- Affiliations
- Zhejiang University (CN)
- Corresponding author
- Luo, Shijian
- Venue
- Frontiers of Computer Science
- Published
- 2015-10
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 751-764
- ISSN
- 2095-2228 (ISSN-L)
- 2095-2236
- OpenAlex
- W1981527102
- Cited by
- 29
- References
- 41
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 5 · 2020: 2 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 1
- FWCI
- 3.17
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Frontiers of Computer Science (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Usability and User Interface Design
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Interactive and Immersive Displays
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Data Visualization and Analytics
- Keywords
- icon design, visual search performance, user preferences, screen size, user interface design, search time
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