This project investigates the use of color in articles published at the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
| Academic Advisor | Dr. Jonas Oppenlaender |
| Topics | Meta-research, Data Science, Machine Learning |
| Degree | Master’s thesis |
Tasks
- Literature review
- Identify and extract figures in CHI papers, using a computer vision model for figure detection
- Classify the figures into separate categories (photo, chart, etc.) by training a classifier or using an existing model
- Analyze colors in figures
- Analyze correlations of color use with scholarly indicators (citations, downloads) and paper topics (e.g., investigate color use in sub-communities of CHI).
Code for 3) is available, though it will require some work to extract reasonable color sets from the figures. That is because most figures are blurry to some degree —> there are many colors that humans do not perceive as important. The work, thus, also includes research on ways of aggregating these colors to derive a color set that aligns with human perception, based on a review of the literature.
References
1. Crameri, F., Shephard, G.E. & Heron, P.J. (2020). The misuse of colour in science communication. Nat Commun 11, 5444. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19160-7
2. Brainard, David H. and Stockman, Andrew (2009). Colorimetry. https://color2.psych.upenn.edu/brainard/papers/Brainard_Stockman_Colorimetry.pdf
3. E. Gibson, R. Futrell, J. Jara-Ettinger, K. Mahowald, L. Bergen, S. Ratnasingam, M. Gibson, S.T. Piantadosi, & B.R. Conway (2017). Color naming across languages reflects color use, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 114 (40) 10785-10790, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1619666114
4. Emery KJ, Webster MA. Individual differences and their implications for color perception. Curr Opin Behav Sci. 2019 Dec;30:28-33. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32832586/
5. Jonathan Haber, Sean Lynch, and Sheelagh Carpendale (2011). ColourVis: exploring colour usage in paintings over time. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computational Aesthetics in Graphics, Visualization, and Imaging (CAe ’11). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 105–112. https://doi.org/10.1145/2030441.2030464
6. Jonas Glatthard (2021). 100 years of Swiss political posters in colour. https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/culture/100-years-of-swiss-political-posters-in-colour/46242848
7. EunJin Kim and Hyeon-Jeong Suk. 2016. Key Color Generation for Affective Multimedia Production: An Initial Method and Its Application. In Proceedings of the 24th ACM international conference on Multimedia (MM ’16). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1316–1325. https://doi.org/10.1145/2964284.2964323
8. Samuel R. Messner. Colorgram.py. https://github.com/obskyr/colorgram.py
9. David Zumbach. Colorfindr. https://github.com/zumbov2/colorfindr