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An Experimental Study on Icon Semantics for Iconic User-Interface

Research Project

Project/Area Number 03680032
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Research Field Informatics
Research InstitutionYamaguchi University

Principal Investigator

TANAKA Minoru  Yamaguchi Univ.,Fac.Engineering,Professor, 工学部, 教授 (40112023)

Project Period (FY) 1991 – 1992
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 1992)
Budget Amount *help
¥2,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000)
Fiscal Year 1992: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 1991: ¥1,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000)
KeywordsIcon / User Interface / Semantics / Visual Information / Visual Programming / Object-oriented / Graphic Interface / Iconic System / グラフィックインタフェース / ユ-ザインタフェ-ス
Research Abstract

Icons are widely used for user-interface. It is easy for the user to recognize what an icon is but difficult to understand how it works. Users sometimes accept different meanings of icons from their definition given in an iconic system. The purpose of this study is to investigate icon semantics through using an iconic system.
(1)A development environment for application iconic-systems has been implemented on a workstation. Each icon in the system is an object and has both functions and data. When two icons are overlapped, an appropriate function is selected by bidirectional message-passing and applied to data. (2) The environment provides facilities to generate application icon as a construct of "resources"which are objects with smaller granularity than an icon. The application system designer can define icons close to users' intuitional understanding. (3)By exchanging resources the system holds consistency and provides unique interface for data exchange between icons. (4)Meaning of a set of icons selected by the user is discussed based on a set of messages of the selected icons. We show a probability of applying a function to a set of data and a set of different functions to a single data. (5) Semantic distance between icons is discussed based on co-occurrency and history of icons used. On the basis of semantic distance the system can provide a set of icons which are applicable in the later operations.

Report

(3 results)
  • 1992 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 1991 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (10 results)

All Other

All Publications (10 results)

  • [Publications] 山口 真悟: "アイコンシステム構築環境" 人工知能学会ヒューマンインタフェース研究会資料. 9201-4. (1992)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1992 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 山口 真悟: "アイコンシステムのためのオブジェクト作成ツールの開発" 情報処理学会プログラミング研究会資料. 10-11. (1993)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1992 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] S.Yamaguchi,K.Tochigi,Y.Nishimura,M.Tanaka: "A Development Environment for Iconic Systems" JSAI,Technical report of SIG-HICG. No.9201-4. (1992)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1992 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] S.Yamaguchi,Y.Nishimura,M.Tanaka: "Development of Object Generation Tools in Iconic System" IPSJ,Technical report of SIG-PRG. No.10-11. (1993)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1992 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 山口 真悟: "アイコンシステム構築環境" 人工知能学会ヒューマンインタフェース研究会資料. 9201-4. (1992)

    • Related Report
      1992 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 折出 武志: "アイコン集合の概念" 電気・情報関連学会中国支部連合大会予稿集. 287 (1992)

    • Related Report
      1992 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 山口 真悟: "アイコンシステム構築モデル" 電気・情報関連学会中国支部連合大会予稿集. 371-372 (1992)

    • Related Report
      1992 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 山口 真悟: "アイコンシステムのためのオブジェクト作成ツールの開発" 情報処理学会プログラミング研究会資料. 10-11. (1993)

    • Related Report
      1992 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 山口 慎悟: "アイコンシステムの開発" 情報処理学会第44回全国大会予稿集. 6K-1 (1992)

    • Related Report
      1991 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 山口 慎悟: "アイコンシステム構築環境" 人工知能学会研究会資料. HICG. (1992)

    • Related Report
      1991 Annual Research Report

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