Visual aesthetic appeal speeds processing of complex but not simple icons

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 1155-1159

  Reppa, Irene ^a   Playfoot, David ^a   McDougall, Siné J P ^b  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE; INTERFACE DISPLAYS; INTERFACE USABILITY; TWO-DIMENSION; USER PERFORMANCE; VISUAL SEARCH;

ERGONOMICS;

EID: 76249087312     PISSN: 10711813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (28)

1. Berlyne, D.E. (1974). Studies in the new experimental aesthetics. Washington, DC: Hemisphere.
2. Byrne, M. D. (1993). Using icons to find documents: Simplicity is critical. Proceedings of lNTERCHI '93, 446-453.
3. Cunningham, W.A., Johnson, M.K., Gatenby, J.C., Gore, J.C. & Banaji, M.R. (2003). Neural components of social evaluation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 85, 639-649.
4. Fox, E., Russo, R., & Bowles, R.J., & Dutton, K. (2001). Do threatening stimuli draw or hold visual attention in sub-clinical anxiety?" Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 130, 681-700.
5. Green, A. J. K., & Barnard, P. J. (1990). Iconic interfacing: The role of icon distinctiveness and fixed or variable screen locations. In D. Diaper, D. Gilmore, G. Cockton, & B. Shackel (Eds.), Human computer interaction - Interact '90, 457-462. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers.
6. Hassenzahl, M. & Tractinsky, N. (2006). User experience - a research agenda. Behaviour & Information Technology, 25, 91-97.
7. Jacobsen T. & Höfel L. (2002). Aesthetic judgments of novel graphic patterns: Analysis of individual judgments. Perceptual & Motor Skills, 95, 755-766.
8. Jacobsen T., Schubotz, R.I., Höfel L. & Cramon, D.Y. (2006). Brain correlates of aesthetic judgment of beauty. Neurolmage, 29, 276-285.
9. Kawabata, H. & Zeki, S. (2004). Neural correlates of beauty. Journal of Neurophysiology, 91, 1699-1705.
10. Kopp, U., & Liebig, T. (1990). Computer simulation and analysis of pilots' scanning behaviour during complex aircraft guidance and control tasks. In D. Brogan (Ed.), Visual search, 311-318.
11. Philadelphia: Taylor & Francis. Kurosu, M. & Kashimura, K. (1995). Apparent usability vs. inherent usability. CHI 95 Conference Companion, 292-293.
12. LeDoux, J.E. (1996). The Emotional Brain. New York, Simon and Schuster.
13. Lindgaard, G. & Dudek, C. (2003). What is this evasive beast we call user satisfaction? Interacting with Computers, 15, 429-452.
14. McDougall, S., Curry, M.B. & de Bruijn, O. (1999). Measuring symbol and icon characteristics: Norms for concreteness, complexity, meaningfulness, familiarity and semantic distance for 239 symbols. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments & Computers, 31, 487-519.
15. McDougall, S., de Bruijn, O. & Curry, M. (2000). Exploring the effects of icon characteristics on user performance: The role of concreteness, complexity and distinctiveness. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 6, 291-306.
16. McDougall, S. & Reppa, I. (2008). Why do I like it? The relationships between icon characteristics, user performance and aesthetic appeal. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomic Society Meeting.
17. McDougall, S., Tyrer, V. & Folkard, S. (2006). Searching for signs, symbols and icons: Effects of time of day, visual complexity, and group. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 12, 118-128.
18. Philipsen, G. (1993). Half valid colour highlighting and visual search in menu options. In D. Brogan, A. Gale, & K. Carr (Eds.), Visual search 2,. 359-370. Philadelphia: Taylor & Francis.
19. Pratto, F. & John, O.P. (1991). Automatic vigilance: The attention- grabbing power of negative social information. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 61, 380-391.
20. Quinlan, P. T. (2003). Visual feature integration theory: Past, present, and future. Psychological Bulletin, 129, 643-673.
21. Remington, R. W., Johnston, J. C, Ruthruff, E., Gold, M., & Romera, M. (2000). Visual search in complex displays: Factors affecting conflict detection by air traffic controllers. Human Factors, 42, 349-366.
22. Scott, D. (1993). Visual search in modem human-computer interfaces. Behaviour and Information Technology, 12, 174-189.
23. Smith, A., & Peck, D. (1990). The influence of time of day and cognitive failure on the effects of working at a visual display unit. In D. Brogan (Ed.), Visual search, 345-352. Philadelphia: Taylor & Francis.
24. Tractinsky, N. (1997). Aesthetics and apparent usability: Empirically assessing cultural and methodological issues. Proceedings of the CHI 97 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York: ACM.
25. Tractinsky, N., Katz, A.S. & Ikar, D. (2000). What is beautiful is usable. Interacting with Computers, 13, 127-145.
26. Wickens, C. D. (2002). Situation awareness and workload in aviation. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 11, 128-133.
27. Wiedenbeck, S. (1999). The use of icons and labels in an end user application program: an empirical study of learning and retention. Behaviour Information Technology, 18, 68-82.
28. Zajonc, R.B. (1968). Attitudinal effects of mere exposure. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology Monographs, 9, 1-27.