Understanding the effectiveness of visual cues to support categorical notification
Moonyati Binti Mohd Yatid, Masahiro Takatsuka · 2012
In order to support better design and understanding of categorical notification systems, we have investigated user's ability to recognize different visual cues that represent specific meanings. User's ability to remember the different meanings represented by the visual cues as well as discriminating those cues from each other determine their ability to better manage categorical notifications. We explored two types of each spatial, colour and shape cues to eliminate the differences of those cues. Findings suggest superior results by spatial cues while better selection of colour/shape cues is influenced by linguistic associations of the cues. Visual cues' ability to represent categories indicates the control of interruptive notifications as well as potential replacement of textual representations.