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Color Selection Methods Using The Color Picker

 

Subjective Data

Subjective Color Picker Accuracy
Subject Crayon RGB HSV
1 2 5 4
2 2 4 4
3 5 4 4
4 2 4 2
5 5 3 4
6 2 3 4
7 3 4 3
8 4 4 3
9 3 5 3
10 4 3 4
11 5 3 4
12 5 3 2
13 3 3 3
14 4 3 4
15 2 4 4
16 3 1 4
17 5 3 5
18 4 5 4
19 4 2 3
20 4 4 4
21 5 4 4
22 5 4 3
23 5 3 2
24 5 2 4
       
Subjective Color Picker Speed
Subject Crayon RGB HSV
1 4 3 4
2 3 2 4
3 4 3 4
4 4 3 2
5 5 2 4
6 3 2 4
7 4 3 3
8 5 3 3
9 3 5 3
10 5 1 4
11 5 1 3
12 5 3 2
13 5 2 2
14 5 2 4
15 5 1 3
16 5 1 2
17 5 2 4
18 4 4 4
19 5 1 4
20 4 3 5
21 5 3 3
22 4 4 2
23 4 3 1
24 5 1 4
       
Subjective Color Picker Ease of Use
Subject Crayon RGB HSV
1 1 3 2
2 1 4 3
3 1 3 2
4 4 4 2
5 1 3 1
6 3 4 3
7 1 2 3
8 2 3 3
9 1 5 1
10 1 4 1
11 5 2 3
12 1 3 4
13 2 2 2
14 1 3 4
15 1 3 2
16 1 5 3
17 1 5 2
18 2 2 2
19 2 2 4
20 1 3 5
21 1 3 2
22 4 4 3
23 1 3 2
24 1 5 2
 

Comments from Questionnaire:

"Crayon was the quickest by far, no mixing of colors"

"The CMYK was alright. The Crayon technique was fun looking and pretty simple. Everything was clear. I hated the RGB. It was most time consuming."

"The HSV picker was kind of hard because I couldn't pick exactly how much of what color I wanted"

circled the crayon as picker choice then stated "it took me a couple of tries to become familiar and fast with the others"

"crayon seemed the quickest and easiest, but probably not as precise as the others, HSV was quicker than RGB & CMYK, but slower than crayon. It was also in the middle as far as precision"

"I want more crayons, it seemed to make the colors more easy to separate but didn't give as much accuracy as the HSV. I thought accuracy was more important since I am not required to color match very often"

 


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