Improving safety in the operating room: Medication icon labels increase visibility and discrimination

Lusk, Connor; Catchpole, Ken; Neyens, David M.; Goel, Swati; Graham, Riley; Elrod, Nicolas; Paintlia, Amanjot; Alfred, Myrtede; Joseph, Anthony; Jaruzel, Candace B.; Tobin, Catherine D.; Heinke, Timothy; Abernathy, James H.

doi:10.1016/j.apergo.2022.103831

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“…Icons have many advantages that other design elements do not have and are widely used in HCI. For example, they provide the perception of affordance and facilitate human–machine interaction in terms of ecological perception, 11 cross the language barrier, 12 visualize and facilitate user recognition, 7 etc. Discrimination is an important influencing factor in icon design, which is not only making sure the user understands the meaning of the icon at first sight, but it is also crucial for the user to find the target object quickly among the numerous icons 5,6 .…”

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“…Notably, the importance of visual discrimination of icons has also been studied in the real world. For instance, Lusk et al 7 showed that adding icons to medication labels in the operating room improved participants' correct identification of medications by about 1.12 times. This shows the importance of visual discrimination in icon design.…”

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The effects of icon updating on user visual discrimination under different working memory load

Chen,

Li,

Zhu

2023

J Soc Info Display

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To lessen users' feelings of unease and stress after icons are updated, this study investigates icon recognition and discrimination in terms of icon color and location under different working memory (WM) loads. At low WM load, changing the color or position of the icons has little effect on icon recognition. The icon color update will affect the user's accuracy when less information is presented, but it will not affect participants' reaction time. As for position updates, it is better to update icons' positions within the same row rather than across rows. At high WM load, although subjects responded faster to color than location, subjects were more accurate with location than with color. It can be concluded that color updates are preferred for entertaining user interfaces that demand quick responses, while location updates are preferable for human–computer interfaces that focus on accuracy. From the results of high WM load, subjects are more sensitive to color brightness. The more drastic the color difference, especially if the change level was at levels of 20% or 40%, the subjects' responses would be more obvious.

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