On the use of Verb for Micro Interactions in UI

Abstract

With the shift to an online-centric living environment, users are increasingly utilizing digital devices to search for information and decide. Users are often at a painful point when accessing content and functions because of unclear interactions with the system or delayed reactions, preventing them from using the system as they wish. Therefore, to improve the usability of services, methods must be devised for rapid recognition of the UI. The use of dynamic elements in the UI can quickly convey feedback and status changes to users to decide intuitively. Based on the current survey, many Micro Interactions often use animation to physically differentiate UI from other UI and information, such as zooming in and out, contrast, movement, and color change. However, current Micro Interactions lack clear rules and are considered dependent on the skills of designers when creating them. In this research, we considered that user perception could be influenced by utilizing the dynamic characteristics of Micro Interactions, focusing on verb that express the movement of objects and human actions based on the images that language has to offer. This experiment yielded the following analysis of the images of the movement of objects and people. The results were classified into two broad categories: those in which the subjects had a common perception of the dynamic image recalled from the verb and those in which the subjects did not have a common perception of the verb, and variations existed in the motion recalled. Each was characterized by differences in whether the verb itself contained the meaning of a vector or context.

Keywords: UI, Feedback, Micro Interactions, Movement, Verb

DOI: 10.54941/ahfe1005132