To Beep or not to Beep: On the Influence of some Interaction Design Variables onto Its Performance
Ulrich Bröckl, Belém Priego Sánchez · Research in Computing Science · 2019
During the construction and development of graphical interfaces, it is important to decide among a huge number of possible feedbacks (colors, sounds, etc.) with graphical variants (circular or rectangular shapes) and graphical behaviors (Close-and X-Button in title-bar e.g. to close a window).In this paper, the results of a long-term experiment comparing mouse-and touch-based interaction are presented.The aim of this work is to compare design variables of interaction in order to explore the influence of these variables on the interactions performance.The obtained results, for mouse interaction, reveal that only one studied design variable (clicking or not when reaching a target) is independent from target size.Color feedback showed to have negative influence for large objects and positive influence for small objects.For small targets circle-shaped targets and sound feedback proved to be negative, on the contrary to touch interaction.Here sound feedback saves for small objects 14.5% of interaction time.Finally the best results obtained are condensed to simple to apply design rules.