Would you hire me? Selfie portrait images perception in a recruitment context

Abstract

Human content perception has been underlined to be important in multimedia quality evaluation. Recently aesthetic considerations have been subject of research in this field. First attempts in aesthetics took into account perceived low-level features, especially taken from photography theory. However they demonstrated to be insufficient to characterize human content perception. More recently image psychology started to be considered as higher cognitive feature impacting user perception. In this paper we follow this idea introducing social cognitive elements. Our experiments focus on the influence of different versions of portrait pictures in context where they are showed aside some completely unrelated informations; this can happen for example in social networks interactions between users, where profile pictures are present aside almost every user action. In particular, we tested this impact on resumes between professional portrait and self shot pictures. Moreover, as we run tests in crowdsourcing, we will discuss the use of this methodology for these tests. Our final aim is to analyse social biases' impact on multimedia aesthetics evaluation and how this bias influences messages that go along with pictures, as in public online platforms and social networks.

Assessing the effect of narrative transportation, portrayed action, and photographic style on the likelihood to comment on posted selfies

“…Instead, they should encourage consumers to take less snapshot selfies and more professional or parody ones. As they are usually conceived as more valuable, thoroughly thought-out selfies give more importance to a commercial message about a brand, service, or product (Mazza et al, 2014).…”

Pussy power not pity porn: Embodied protest in the #FacesOfProstitution Twitter network

“…The term selfie describes what is now a ubiquitous social practice variously referred to as 'self-shooting' (Tiidenberg, 2014), 'selfie portraits' (Mazza, Da Silva and Le Callet, 2014) and 'self-generated digital photographic portraiture' (Senft andBaym 2015, 1588). Research on selfies is prodigious with previous studies examining selfie-taking by teenagers (Dobson, 2015;Marwick, 2015), the use of selfies among elite user groups (eg.…”

Crowdsourcing Quality of Experience Experiments

“…Despite these differences between crowdsourced and laboratory-based image and video quality assessment, crowdsourced image and video quality assessment has been used so far successfully as a replacement for laboratory-based QoE assessments for a number of different research questions: Image recognizability and aesthetic appeal [81,83,84], selfie portrait images perception in a recruitment context [69], privacy in HDR images and video [59,60,86], QoE of video coding in general [57,58], audio-visual QoE of Internet-based applications in [8,9,109], and influence of stalling events and initial delays [34,36] on the QoE of video streaming applications. In addition, a general discussion using crowdsourcing for image and video QoE is provided by Hossfeld et al [33,84].…”