Visual and auditory icons for intelligent building

Author

Chia-Fen Chi ; Dewi, Ratna Sari

Author_Institution

Dept. of Ind. Manage., Nat. Taiwan Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Taipei, Taiwan

fYear

2014

fDate

23-25 April 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The current study propose the design and evaluation of visual and auditory icons for a smart house. Scenario based design and hierarchical task analysis were used to derive function names for smart buildings. Participants (in group) are required to design icons in 7 formats (image related, concept related, semiabstract, arbitrary, word, abbreviation, and combined) for useful function names. In total, 315 icons of 45 functions are developed in this study. Ranking test and paired comparison test would be conducted respectively for the evaluation of visual and auditory icons. The results can be applied to the design and evaluation of visual and auditory icons in other contexts.

Keywords

audio-visual systems; building management systems; home automation; human computer interaction; task analysis; user interfaces; auditory icon design; auditory icon evaluation; function names; hierarchical task analysis; intelligent building; ranking test; scenario based design; smart buildings; smart house; visual icon design; visual icon evaluation; Audio user interfaces; Computers; Context; Smart buildings; Visualization; Hierarchical Task Analysis; image related; ranking test; scenario based design;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Green Building and Smart Grid (IGBSG), 2014 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Taipei

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGBSG.2014.6835280

Filename

6835280