Neuroanatomical correlates of perceived usability

Chi Thanh Vi; Kasper Hornbæk; Sriram Subramanian

doi:10.1145/3126594.3126657

Neuroanatomical correlates of perceived usability

Chi Thanh Vi, Kasper Hornbæk, Sriram Subramanian

Department of Computer Science

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Abstract

Usability has a distinct subjective component, yet surprisingly little is known about its neural basis and relation to the neuroanatomy of aesthetics. To begin closing this gap, we conducted two functional magnetic resonance imaging studies in which participants were shown static webpages (in the first study) and videos of interaction with webpages (in the second study). The webpages were controlled so as to exhibit high and low levels of perceived usability and perceived aesthetics. Our results show unique links between perceived usability and brain areas involved in functions such as emotional processing (left fusiform gyrus, superior frontal gyrus), anticipation of physical interaction (precentral gyrus), task intention (anterior cingulate cortex), and linguistic processing (medial and bilateral superior frontal gyri). We use these findings to discuss the brain correlates of perceived usability and the use of fMRI for usability evaluation and for generating new user experiences.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	UIST 2017 - Proceedings of the 30th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
Number of pages	14
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Publication date	20 Oct 2017
Pages	519-532
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450349819
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3126594.3126657
Publication status	Published - 20 Oct 2017
Event	30th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST 2017 - Quebec City, Canada Duration: 22 Oct 2017 → 25 Oct 2017

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Conference	30th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST 2017
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Quebec City
Period	22/10/2017 → 25/10/2017
Sponsor	ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques (ACM SIGGRAPH), ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM SIGCHI), Autodesk Inc, Disney Research, et al, Jeff Han

Keywords

Aesthetics
FMRI
Usability
User experience

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Neuroanatomical correlates of perceived usability. / Vi, Chi Thanh; Hornbæk, Kasper; Subramanian, Sriram.

UIST 2017 - Proceedings of the 30th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2017. p. 519-532.

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Vi, CT, Hornbæk, K & Subramanian, S 2017, Neuroanatomical correlates of perceived usability. in UIST 2017 - Proceedings of the 30th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, pp. 519-532, 30th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST 2017, Quebec City, Canada, 22/10/2017. https://doi.org/10.1145/3126594.3126657

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