What we look at in Paintings : A Comparison Between Experienced and Inexperienced Art Viewers
Abstract
How do people look at art? Are there any differences between how experienced
and inexperienced art viewers look at a painting? We approach these
questions by analyzing and modeling eye movement data from a cognitive
art research experiment, where the eye movements of twenty test subjects,
ten experienced and ten inexperienced art viewers, were recorded while they
were looking at paintings.
Eye movements consist of stops of the gaze as well as jumps between the
stops. Hence, the observed gaze stop locations can be thought of as a spatial
point pattern, which can be modeled by a spatio-temporal point process. We
introduce some statistical tools to analyze the spatio-temporal eye movement
data, and compare the eye movements of experienced and inexperienced art
viewers. In addition, we develop a stochastic model, which is rather simple
but fits quite well to the eye movement data, to further investigate the differences
between the two groups through functional summary statistics.
Main Authors
Format
Articles
Research article
Published
2016
Series
Subjects
Publication in research information system
Publisher
Institute of Mathematical Statistics
The permanent address of the publication
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:jyu-201608113775Use this for linking
Review status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
1932-6157
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1214/16-AOAS921
Language
English
Published in
Annals of Applied Statistics
Citation
- Ylitalo, A.-K., Särkkä, A., & Guttorp, P. (2016). What we look at in Paintings : A Comparison Between Experienced and Inexperienced Art Viewers. Annals of Applied Statistics, 10(2), 549-574. https://doi.org/10.1214/16-AOAS921
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