Development of an Intuitive User-Centric Font Selection Menu
Abstract
The font selection menu in most application
software's is arranged alphabetically; in recent years one can also see
the split menu approach being used. An alphabetical arrangement
presupposes that the users are aware of the font characteristics and
usage scenario through its name. Unless the font name specifies it; the
scheme does not in any which way indicate the morphological features or
the usage scenarios of a given font. In order to address these issues, a
set of systematic experiments was conducted to capture the typeface
classification strategies of users with a modified card sorting
technique. The collected data was subjected to hierarchical clustering
algorithms to come up with a collective user-centric classification
system for Devanagari fonts. The classes created by this method appears
to address the problems raised by alphabetical orderings by allowing the
groupings to be more intuitive (and realistic) while retaining
statistical validity over large user sets.
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Digital Libraries [cs.DL]Origin | Files produced by the author(s) |
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