Correlating low-level image statistics with users' rapid aesthetic and affective judgments of web pages

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-10

  Zheng, Xianjun Sam ^a   Chakraborty, Ishani ^b   Lin, James Jeng Weei ^a   Rauschenberger, Robert ^b  

^a SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aesthetic judgments; Computer vision; Empirical methods; Image statistics; Low level features; User interface design

Indexed keywords

AESTHETIC JUDGMENTS; EMPIRICAL METHOD; IMAGE STATISTICS; LOW-LEVEL FEATURES; USER INTERFACE DESIGNS;

COMPUTER VISION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; ITERATIVE METHODS; USER INTERFACES;

WEBSITES;

EID: 77955895269     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1518701.1518703     Document Type: Conference Paper

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