Title: A Methodology for Assessing Aesthetics of a Graphical User Interface of an Information System.
Visual Measures-based Automated Evaluation
Date and Venue: 16 March 2017 at 9:00, in room Ladeuze, Halles Universitaires in Louvain-la-Neuve
Abstract:
“The Graphical User Interface (GUI) is probably the most frequently used interaction modality of all interactive systems. While the information contents of these GUIs are of high importance, their presentation is recognized as an essential factor that determines the GUI quality that is impacted by several determinants such as, but not limited to: visual design, aesthetics, pleasurability, arousal, and fun. Consequently, assessing the aesthetic quality of a GUI becomes a potential element to focus on in order to facilitate communication between the end user and her information system. "How to assess user interface aesthetics?" remains a question faced by several researchers and designers during the user interface development life cycle since aesthetics has been demonstrated to positively influence usability, user experience, pleasureability, and trust. Visual techniques borrowed from visual design suggest that the GUI layout could be assessed against a set of visual measures such as balance, symmetry, alignment, and simplicity, to name a few. For each visual technique, a visual measure could be computed based on a mathematical formula that captures the basic elements for each technique. Whereas different formulas exist for computing each visual measure, no consensus exists today on how to consistently evaluate these measures in a way that is aligned with human judgment, which is intrinsically subjective. In order to appropriately assess the aesthetic quality of a GUI of an information system, there is a need to align the machine objectivity based on computerized visual measures to the human subjectivity based on human perception.”
Registration for the dissertation: mathieu.zen@uclouvain.be