Visual complexity and aesthetic perception of web pages

SIGDOC 2008 - Proceedings of the 26th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 215-223

  Michailidou, Eleni ^a   Harper, Simon ^a   Bechhofer, Sean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aesthetics; ViCRAM; Visual complexity; Visual perception; Web design

Indexed keywords

AESTHETIC PERCEPTION; COMPLEXITY LEVELS; INTERESTINGNESS; STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS; USER PERCEPTIONS; USERS' PERCEPTION; VISUAL APPEARANCE; VISUAL COMPLEXITY; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VISUAL PRESENTATION; WEB DESIGNS; WEB PAGE;

DESIGN; VISION;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 70450263495     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1456536.1456581     Document Type: Conference Paper

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