{"title":"Exploring amBiDiguity: UI item direction interpretation by Arabic and Hebrew users","authors":"Yulia Goldenberg, Noam Tractinsky","doi":"10.1016/j.ijhcs.2024.103383","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Bidirectional user interfaces serve more than half a billion users worldwide. Despite increasing diversity-driven approaches to interface development, bidirectional interfaces still use UI elements inconsistently. In particular, UI items containing ambiguous information that BiDi users might process both from right-to-left and left-to-right pose a challenge to designers. We use the term amBiDiguous to denote such items and suggest that they are susceptible to ineffective use.</div><div>This paper reports on an empirical study with 1705 Arabic and Hebrew users, in which we collected explicit and implicit data about ambiguous UI items in bidirectional interfaces. We explored the directional interpretation of amBiDiguous UI items and investigated the influence of individual, linguistic, and UI design factors on how people perceive them. The findings suggest a complex picture in which various factors affect ambiguous items’ interpretation. While the analysis indicates that preventing all interpretation errors is probably impossible, a large portion of those errors can be addressed by proper design.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54955,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Human-Computer Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.3000,"publicationDate":"2024-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International Journal of Human-Computer Studies","FirstCategoryId":"94","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1071581924001666","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"COMPUTER SCIENCE, CYBERNETICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Bidirectional user interfaces serve more than half a billion users worldwide. Despite increasing diversity-driven approaches to interface development, bidirectional interfaces still use UI elements inconsistently. In particular, UI items containing ambiguous information that BiDi users might process both from right-to-left and left-to-right pose a challenge to designers. We use the term amBiDiguous to denote such items and suggest that they are susceptible to ineffective use.
This paper reports on an empirical study with 1705 Arabic and Hebrew users, in which we collected explicit and implicit data about ambiguous UI items in bidirectional interfaces. We explored the directional interpretation of amBiDiguous UI items and investigated the influence of individual, linguistic, and UI design factors on how people perceive them. The findings suggest a complex picture in which various factors affect ambiguous items’ interpretation. While the analysis indicates that preventing all interpretation errors is probably impossible, a large portion of those errors can be addressed by proper design.
期刊介绍:
The International Journal of Human-Computer Studies publishes original research over the whole spectrum of work relevant to the theory and practice of innovative interactive systems. The journal is inherently interdisciplinary, covering research in computing, artificial intelligence, psychology, linguistics, communication, design, engineering, and social organization, which is relevant to the design, analysis, evaluation and application of innovative interactive systems. Papers at the boundaries of these disciplines are especially welcome, as it is our view that interdisciplinary approaches are needed for producing theoretical insights in this complex area and for effective deployment of innovative technologies in concrete user communities.
Research areas relevant to the journal include, but are not limited to:
• Innovative interaction techniques
• Multimodal interaction
• Speech interaction
• Graphic interaction
• Natural language interaction
• Interaction in mobile and embedded systems
• Interface design and evaluation methodologies
• Design and evaluation of innovative interactive systems
• User interface prototyping and management systems
• Ubiquitous computing
• Wearable computers
• Pervasive computing
• Affective computing
• Empirical studies of user behaviour
• Empirical studies of programming and software engineering
• Computer supported cooperative work
• Computer mediated communication
• Virtual reality
• Mixed and augmented Reality
• Intelligent user interfaces
• Presence
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