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2010

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Salimun, Carolyn, Purchase, Helen C., Simmons, David R. and Brewster, Stephen A. (2010): The effect of aesthetically pleasing composition on visual search performance. In: Proceedings of the Sixth Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 2010. pp. 422-431.

“This paper presents the results of a study on the effect of the aesthetic layout properties of a computer interface on visual search performance. Search performance was measured at three levels of layout aesthetics: high, medium, and low. Two types of performance metric were recorded: response time and number of errors. Performance at the three levels of aesthetics was also compared between two search methods (with or without mouse pointing), and related to preference. The findings of the present study indicate that, regardless of search method used, response time (but not errors) was strongly affected by the aesthetics level. There is also a clear relationship between preference and performance when a composite measurement of aesthetics is used, although this does not seem to be due to the influence of individual aesthetic features. Further study is needed to identify other aesthetic factors that influence task performance, and to establish appropriate design guidelines.”

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Salimun, Carolyn, Purchase, Helen C., Simmons, David R. and Brewster, Stephen (2010): Preference ranking of screen layout principles. In: Proceedings of the HCI10 Conference on People and Computers XXIV 2010. pp. 81-87.

“This paper presents the results of a study on the preference ranking of six layout principles (Cohesion, Economy, Regularity, Sequence, Symmetry, and Unity). Preference judgments were conducted using a forced-choice paired comparisons method. The findings of the present study indicate that, contrary to suggestions in previous literature, an interface was most preferred when it found that the layout principles of Symmetry and Cohesion were more influential than the other layout principles. Further research is needed to identify other aesthetics factors which might influence preferences, and establish appropriate design guidelines.”

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