Icons, Magnitudes, and Their Parts

Bodies and their parts.

How do we think about the space of bodies? Several accounts of mental representations of bodies were addressed in body part verification tasks. An imagery account predicts shorter times to larger parts (e.g., back < hand). A part distinctiveness account predicts shorter times to more discontinuous parts (e.g., arm < chest). Apart significance account predicts shorter times to parts that are per...

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Earcons and Icons: Their Structure and Common Design Principles

In this article we examine earcons, which are audio messages used in the user-computer interface to provide information and feedback to the user about computer entities. (Earcons include messages and functions, as well as states and labels.) We identify some design principles that are common to both visual symbols and auditory messages, and discuss the use of representational and abstract icons...

Iconymology: origins and development of icons and their meanings

Iconymology is concerned with the analysis of the origins and development of idea pictures used within the human-computer interface and their meanings. The analysis is done in two stages with a diachronic and a synchronic section, focusing on syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic aspects of the signs. It covers the principles of complex pictorial meaning generation via visual codes and metaphors, ...

Assessing the dependency between the magnitudes of earthquakes and the magnitudes of their aftershocks

Current assumptions on the level of inter-dependency between the magnitudes of earthquakes and the magnitudes of their aftershocks vary significantly, ranging from assumed independence for models like epidemic type aftershock-sequence (ETAS) to assumed positive correlation, at least for the events leading up to the largest earthquakes, for models like accelerated moment release. Recently, a met...