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Designing the 'record' button: using children's understanding of icons to inform the design of a musical interface

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Lorna McKnight,

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IDC '09: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children

Pages 258 - 261

https://doi.org/10.1145/1551788.1551847

Published: 03 June 2009 Publication History

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While standard icons often exist for common tasks, it can be difficult to design meaningful icons for non-standard tasks. Following a desire to build a music application that does not rely on text-based instructions, this paper explores suitable iconic representations for a 'record music' function on a mobile device. A study was carried out with primary school children (aged 8--10) to explore their current understanding of icons and elicit their requirements. It was seen that they were familiar with common icons, but that audio recording remains a difficult concept to represent through icons alone.

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1. Human-centered computing
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IDC '09: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children

June 2009

347 pages

ISBN:9781605583952

DOI:10.1145/1551788

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HOC Lab - Politecnico di Milano, Italy
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