Facets of visual aesthetics

Facets of visual aesthetics

Visual aesthetics has been shown to critically affect a variety of constructs such as perceived usability, satisfaction, and pleasure. Given the importance of visual aesthetics in humancomputer interaction, it is vital that it is adequately assessed. The present research aimed at providing a precise operational definition and to develop a new measure of perceived visual aesthetics of websites. ...

The Visual Aesthetics of Snowflakes.

In two experiments, participants evaluated the perceived beauty of snowflakes and solid objects. The snowflake silhouettes used as experimental stimuli were created from photographs of natural snowflakes. Both the snowflake silhouettes and computer-generated solid objects varied in complexity. In Experiment 1, 204 participants selected the single snowflake and single solid object that was the m...

Visual aesthetics and human preference.

Human aesthetic preference in the visual domain is reviewed from definitional, methodological, empirical, and theoretical perspectives. Aesthetic science is distinguished from the perception of art and from philosophical treatments of aesthetics. The strengths and weaknesses of important behavioral techniques are presented and discussed, including two-alternative forced-choice, rank order, subj...

Visual Perception and the Aesthetics of Photography

Visual aesthetics and the user experience

This paper describes the outcomes of a project that focused on the integration of non-instrumental qualities like aesthetic and symbolic aspects and emotional user reactions with traditional, instrumental-focused approaches to users’ experience of interaction. A research framework is described that conceptualizes user experience as a phenomenon consisting of instrumental and noninstrumental qua...