Investigating objective measures of web page aesthetics and usability

Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology Series

Volumn 117, Issue , 2011, Pages 19-28

  Purchase, Helen C ^a   Hamer, John ^b   Jamieson, Adrian ^b   Ryan, Oran ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Aesthetics; Empirical study; Layout; Perception

Indexed keywords

AESTHETIC DESIGN; AESTHETICS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EVALUATION TOOL; LAYOUT; OBJECTIVE MEASURE; PERCEIVED USABILITY;

SENSORY PERCEPTION; WEBSITES;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 84873285039     PISSN: 14451336     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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