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Visual Ergonomics for Colourblindness: Applying Universal Design Principles in Graphical User Interface to Provide Affordance to the Colourblind Users

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2022

A. Basak  and
S. T. Roy
A. Basak*
Affiliation:
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
S. T. Roy
Affiliation:
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
*
abhinavbasak@outlook.com

Abstract

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With evolution of Graphical User Interface, the access to the computer interface was expanded to cater to the extreme user categories by providing accessibility features and making the computer interface more inclusive. One such extreme user category is colourblind, which has a special accessibility requirement from the GUI. This paper studies the iconography of the Microsoft Windows operating system interface with an objective to develop an inclusive icon design solution that is visually ergonomic for colourblind users to include them as a mainstream user category in a computer interface.

Keywords

human behaviouruser experiencehuman-centred designvisual ergonomicscolourblindness

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Proceedings of the Design Society , Volume 2: DESIGN2022 , May 2022 , pp. 2055 - 2066
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