Does Adding Visual Signifiers in Animated Transitions Improve Interaction Discoverability?

Document type :

Communication dans un congrès avec actes

DOI :

10.1145/3706598.3713914

Title :

Does Adding Visual Signifiers in Animated Transitions Improve Interaction Discoverability?

Author(s) :

Mackamul, Eva [Auteur]
Technology and knowledge for interaction [LOKI]
Université Grenoble Alpes [UGA]
University of Toronto
Chevalier, Fanny [Auteur]

University of Toronto
Casiez, Géry [Auteur]

Technology and knowledge for interaction [LOKI]
Institut universitaire de France [IUF]
Malacria, Sylvain [Auteur]

Technology and knowledge for interaction [LOKI]

Conference title :

CHI 2025 - ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Conference organizers(s) :

ACM

City :

Yokohama

Country :

Japon

Start date of the conference :

2025-04-26

English keyword(s) :

swhidgets
animated transition
interaction signifiers
discoverability
Human-computer interaction

HAL domain(s) :

Informatique [cs]/Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]

English abstract : [en]

Smartphones support diverse inputs, however, the multitude of devices and platforms makes it challenging for people to discover when and where interactions are meaningful. Motivated by the effectiveness of visual signifiers ...
Show more >Smartphones support diverse inputs, however, the multitude of devices and platforms makes it challenging for people to discover when and where interactions are meaningful. Motivated by the effectiveness of visual signifiers in communicating interactivity, we explore the viability of integrating temporary visual signifiers in animated transitions between UI screens to promote the discoverability of swipe-revealed widgets. We implemented two transition types (Container Transform, Panels), and compared them to a baseline. We found that transitions with a standard duration did not impact the discovery of swipe-related widgets (N=33). We ran a follow-up study (N=22) with extremely slow 5000ms transitions to guarantee noticeability, but similarly found no impact on discovery of swipe-revealed widgets, diverging from previous findings for visual signifiers. This raises interesting questions about the perception and understanding of interaction signifiers, and indicates a disconnect between noticeability and discoverability, while highlighting difficulties with adapting established interface elements beyond their entrenched functionality.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

ANR Project :

Promouvoir et améliorer la découverte des fonctionnalités et des interactions dans les systèmes interactifs
SecondSkin: Matériaux programmable pour l'IHM

Collections :

Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille (CRIStAL) - UMR 9189

Source :

Harvested from HAL

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