Human factors principles underlying glyph design: A review of the literature and an agenda for future
Siva, Navaneethan Chaparro, Alex Palmer, Evan M.
Siva, Navaneethan
Chaparro, Alex
Palmer, Evan M.
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2012-10
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Siva, N., Chaparro, A., & Palmer, E.M. (2012). Human factors principles underlying glyph design: A review of the literature and an agenda for future. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 56(1), 1659-1663.
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Glyphs are graphical icons that depict multivariate data and are used by a number of disparate fields. Their designs are varied, reflecting both the diversity of applications and the absence of design standards. In the absence of guidelines, glyph designers have relied on their intuition and expert opinion to develop a diverse collection of idiosyncratic techniques for representing complex data sets. Importantly, it is not clear whether glyph design schemes are in any way optimal for efficient perceptual interpretation and usage. We note several findings in the perception and cognition literature that may serve as an initial basis for guidelines, we discuss how they might be used and the importance of doing so. Additionally, the dynamic updating of information in glyphs is a new trend that makes this kind of optimization necessary now more than has been in the past.
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Proceedings of theHuman Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting
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