Cognitive processes causing the relationship between aesthetics and usability

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5298 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 43-54

  Ilmberger, Waltraud ^a   Schrepp, Martin ^b   Held, Theo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b SAP RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aesthetics; Cognitive Processes; Usability; User Experience

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; USABILITY ENGINEERING; USER EXPERIENCE; USER INTERFACES;

AESTHETICS; COGNITIVE PROCESS; COLOUR SCHEMES; MARKET RESEARCHES; ONLINE SHOPS; PERCEIVED USABILITY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; USABILITY;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 70350678881     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-89350-9_4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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