ABSTRACT

The LUTCHI Research Centre is a UK centre of excellence in humancomputer interaction research. The centre is organised in two laboratories, one of which is Electronic Media. The EML is concerned with the problems of providing electronic support for creative professional user, such as artists and designers, as early in the design process as possible, and also with HCI mediated through pictures in addition to words. The EML provides a focus for an interdisciplinary team of researchers, including mathematicians, computer and colour scientists, artists, designers, linguists, and psychologists. The projects listed below will be described in outline: querying pictorial databases using pictures; computer colour appearance models; modelling the relationship between colour and emotion; knowledge acquisition in design (page layout); drawing and picture understanding systems; cooperative design over electronic networks; and using pictures in expert systems. The aim of the presentation will be to show how these projects are linked by an interest in human problem solving activities that involve communication through or about pictures, and the need to control key pictorial properties (such as colour) and to understand the role of pictures in supporting cognitive function

• Stephen AR Scrivener, LUTCHI Research Centre, Loughborough University of Technology, Loughborough, England
• Stephen Charles, LUTCHI Research Centre, Loughborough University of Technology, Loughborough, England