A Usability Study of Automotive Control Screen Displays

In this research of 59 participants, a relationship between familiarity and correctness was found. Also, that other usability and design factors can have substantial influence over this. An online experiment consisting of search-and -select and icon interpretation paradigms was carried out. Users were asked to type in words their understanding of an icon s meaning and to indicate a level of familiarity, for 4 icons. Followed by a task to search and select an icon which best represented the one line scenario displayed from an array of 8, for 8 icons. In this research of 59 participants, a relationship between familiarity and correctness was found. Also, that other usability and design factors can have substantial influence over this.

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Tom has been a consultant for many Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) and large-scale manufacturing and service enterprises in the UK, in engineering design and electronic product design. Tom's work has been widely published in the form of journal papers, book contributions, refereed proceedings and refereed conference papers.