Peter R. Nolan's scientific contributions

Publications (2)

Article
Two studies from a screen icon testing program are reported. An appropriateness ranking study is a preliminary procedure that screens several candidate designs and results in a single image content for each icon. Subjects preferred the more concrete icons to the more abstract ones. Familiar image content was also preferred. The matching study deter...
Article
Five research studies were conducted to specify the physical description of a novel mouse for an office computer. The mouse had side buttons that when pressed at the same time, moved or scrolled the contents of the active window. The studies examined accidental activation of both the side buttons and the top buttons, whether the mouse should be sin...

Citations

... 36 terms and icons on a label offers advantages under various conditions. [36][37][38][39] Including terminology appears to be most useful during learning stages of an interface. Icons, once learned, are associated with greater cognitive efficiency. ...