The XAOS metric - Understanding visual complexity as measure of usability

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

Volumn 6389 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 278-290

  Stickel, Christian ^a   Ebner, Martin ^a   Holzinger, Andreas ^b  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Entropy; Usability; User Experience; Visual Complexity

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE LOADS; DATA SETS; FILE SIZES; JPEG IMAGE; NOVEL METHODS; STRONG CORRELATION; SUBJECTIVE RATING; USABILITY; USER EXPERIENCE; VISUAL COMPLEXITY; WEB SURVEYS;

ENTROPY; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT;

USABILITY ENGINEERING;

EID: 78649979767     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-16607-5_18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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