“…We expect that each icon I in
is associated with n text tags (
) that represent the semantic and visual concepts of the icon such as 'search', 'next', 'television', and 'map'. We characterize the usability of an icon using common perceptual usability metrics including semantic distance , familiarity , and visual distinuguishability , which are commonly used by professional icon designers [
MCdB01,
Kur00,
SM14]. However, these metrics of an icon are usually hard to evaluate mathematically from the icon image since the assessments of these metrics require extensive user testing to collect users' self‐reports and feedback.…”