Bouba or Kiki

popularity-contest decision-problem

In Psychology, the Bouba/Kiki Effect refers to the non-arbitrary associations between sounds and shapes. The traditional example shapes are a spiky blob, an a rounded blob _{Source: Wikipedia CC BY-SA}

Humans seem to have an innate understanding of what should be Bouba and what should be Kiki, and our machines deserve the same insights.

The challenge

Given two images, determine which of the two images is more "Bouba", and which is more "Kiki".

As this is a non-objective property of the images, users are encouraged to vote for answers which they feel are most correct for any given images.

As this is popularity-contest, the answer with the most votes wins!

Sandbox Notes

• Test cases? Ideally with some ambiguity?
• Will this get crushed like many other pop-cons?

Bouba or Kiki

popularity-contest decision-problem

In Psychology, the Bouba/Kiki Effect refers to the non-arbitrary associations between sounds and shapes. The traditional example shapes are a spiky blob, an a rounded blob _{Source: Wikipedia CC BY-SA}

Humans seem to have an innate understanding of what should be Bouba and what should be Kiki, and our machines deserve the same insights.

The challenge

Given two images, determine which of the two images is more "Bouba", and which is more "Kiki".

As this is a non-objective property of the images, users are encouraged to vote for answers which they feel are most correct for any given images.

As this is popularity-contest, the answer with the most votes wins!

Test Cases

Sandbox Notes

• Will this get crushed like many other pop-cons?