Color Illusions on Liquid Crystal Displays and Design Guidelines for Information Visualization

The influence of color on size and depth perception has been explored for a century, but there is very limited research on interventions that can reduce the color illusions. This study was motivated to identify interventions and propose design guidelines for information visualization, especially where size judgment is critical. This study replicated the color size illusion and color depth illusion on an LCD monitor and it was found that yellow is the smallest and farthest color among red, yellow, green, and blue on a white background. Three types of interventions (background brightness, border color, and background grid brightness) were tested to identify the conditions that reduce the color illusions, but all of them were not statistically significant. Based on the experiment results and literature survey, design guidelines were proposed. To extend the guidelines to the bioinformatics field, design recommendations were proposed and implementation examples were illustrated. Evaluations on design implementations were evaluated by interviewing domain experts. Additionally, the relationship between the color size illusion and the color depth illusion was explored.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Department dc:contributor.department

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

2007

Author dc:creator

• Yoo, Hyun Seung

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Smith-Jackson, Tonya L.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Winchester, Woodrow W. III
• North, Christopher L.

• Design Guideline
• Apparent Depth
• Apparent Size
• Color Depth Illusion
• Color Size Illusion
• Bioinformatics Visualization

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Dc Identifier Other

etd-12212007-102919

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/36372