Towards a theory of user judgment of aesthetics and user interface quality

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Hartmann, Jan ^a   Sutcliffe, Alistair ^a   De Angeli, Antonella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aesthetics; Interaction styles; Judgment and decision making; Usability

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; PROGRAMMING THEORY; USER INTERFACES;

AESTHETICS; CONTEXT DEPENDENTS; CUSTOMISATION; DESIGN QUALITIES; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; FRAMING EFFECTS; HALO EFFECTS; INTERACTION STYLES; INTERFACE QUALITIES; JUDGMENT AND DECISION-MAKING; MOBILE SERVICES; QUALITY ASSESSMENTS; QUALITY ATTRIBUTES; USABILITY; USER EXPERIENCES;

DECISION THEORY;

EID: 59449103450     PISSN: 10730516     EISSN: 15577325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1460355.1460357     Document Type: Article

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