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APPLIED ERGONOMICS
Volume 55, Issue -, Pages 156-172Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2016.02.006
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Icons; Processing fluency; User experience; Aesthetics; Appeal
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Although icons appear on almost all interfaces, there is a paucity of research examining the determinants of icon appeal. The experiments reported here examined the icon characteristics determining appeal and the extent to which processing fluency the subjective ease with which individuals process information - was used as a heuristic to guide appeal evaluations. Participants searched for, and identified, icons in displays. The initial appeal of icons was held constant while ease of processing was manipulated by systematically varying the complexity and familiarity of the icons presented and the type of task participants were asked to carry out. Processing fluency reliably influenced users' appeal ratings and appeared to be based on users' unconscious awareness of the ease with which they carried out experimental tasks. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd and The Ergonomics Society. All rights reserved.
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