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Aesthetics and apparent usability: empirically assessing cultural and methodological issues
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human factors in computing systems
CUU '00 Proceedings on the 2000 conference on Universal Usability
Aesthetic Considerations Unique to Interactive Multimedia
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
User Satisfaction, Aesthetics and Usability: Beyond Reductionism
Proceedings of the IFIP 17th World Computer Congress - TC13 Stream on Usability: Gaining a Competitive Edge
Robust analysis of feature spaces: color image segmentation
CVPR '97 Proceedings of the 1997 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR '97)
Factors influencing the usage of websites: the case of a generic portal in The Netherlands
Information and Management
Interaction, usability and aesthetics: what influences users' preferences?
DIS '06 Proceedings of the 6th conference on Designing Interactive systems
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Economic and subjective measures of the perceived value of aesthetics and usability
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
Design aesthetics leading to m-loyalty in mobile commerce
Information and Management
Evaluating the consistency of immediate aesthetic perceptions of web pages
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Investigating attractiveness in web user interfaces
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The interplay of beauty, goodness, and usability in interactive products
Human-Computer Interaction
Perceptually uniform color spaces for color texture analysis: an empirical evaluation
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
A GA-based approach to improve web page aesthetics
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Intelligent Interactive Technologies and Multimedia
HCII'11 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Human-computer interaction: design and development approaches - Volume Part I
Automatically detecting protruding objects when shooting environmental portraits
ACCV'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on Computer vision - Volume part II
Investigating effects of screen layout elements on interface and screen design aesthetics
Advances in Human-Computer Interaction
Semi-automated magazine layout using content-based image features
Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Multimedia
Automatic generation of social media snippets for mobile browsing
Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Multimedia
An approach to optimal text placement on images
EPCE'13 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics: understanding human cognition - Volume Part I
Development of scales for the measurement of principles of design
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
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This article describes computational models based on principles of visual weights to compute the symmetry and balance of text-overlaid images. Two experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of symmetry and balance on the aesthetic appeal of text-overlaid images. In the first experiment, five color photos were used to compose a set of test images overlaid with a paragraph of Chinese texts as the stimuli. Contrastly, the second experiment applied monochrome photos to compute the stimuli. The positions of the text overlay were determined by varying the balance and symmetry in order to validate computational aesthetic quantification algorithms with subjective ratings. The stimuli were rated by 20 subjects in each experiment using the ratio-scale magnitude estimation method against a benchmark image for each photo. Results from both experiments show that subjects are adept at judging symmetry and balance in both the horizontal and vertical directions. Subjects are also adept at judging radial symmetry about the center point of an image. The experiments also established a relationship between a higher averaged visual balance and the aesthetic appeal of text-overlaid images. Symmetry in either direction, however, did not result in any proportional relations to the aesthetic appeal.