Optimal UI Item Direction: Evaluation of 30 Bidirectional Interface Elements

A research framework and evaluation results for determining the optimal direction of user interface items in bidirectional systems. The dataset includes results from evaluating 30 common UI items with BiDi users, using multiple indicators. It was authored by Yulia Goldenberg and last updated on 2026-05-29.

Use Cases

• Informing UI direction decisions based on the multi-objective optimization approach described.
• Training design systems to be context-sensitive based on the concept of Optimal UI Item Direction (OUIID).
• Benchmarking UI element performance across effectiveness, efficiency, satisfaction, and consistency goals.
• Developing practitioner tools for evidence-guided BiDi design when only a subset of measures is available.

Strengths

• Evaluation covers 30 common UI items, providing a specific scope.
• Results are based on multiple indicators from BiDi user testing.
• Dataset is shared under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The dataset is small at 247.8 KB, indicating limited scope.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Likely contains experimental results from user evaluations and a proposed optimization framework.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-29 11:33:28; freshness should be verified.