We present an extensive study into aesthetic measures in unsupervised evolutionary art (EvoArt). In contrast to several mainstream EvoArt approaches we evolve images without human interaction, using one or more aesthetic measures as fitness functions. We perform a series of systematic experiments, comparing 7 di↵erent aesthetic measures through subjective criteria (‘style’) as well as by quanti...

Although existing research has established that aesthetic pleasure and aesthetic interest are two distinct positive aesthetic responses, empirical research on aesthetic preferences usually considers only aesthetic liking to capture participants' aesthetic response. This causes some fundamental contradictions in the literature; some studies find a positive relationship between easy-to-process st...

Theories differ on how typicality and arousal influence aesthetic appraisal and whether these processes together interact or have independent effects on aesthetic appraisal. This research investigates the simultaneous effects of typicality and arousal on aesthetic appraisal for product designs by manipulating both processes separately: typicality by prototype deviation and arousal by colour sat...

We investigated whether design experts or laypersons evaluate webpages differently. Twenty participants, 10 experts and 10 laypersons, judged the aesthetic value of a webpage in an EEG-experiment. Screenshots of 150 webpages, judged aesthetic or unaesthetic by different sample of 136 participants, served as stimulus material. Behaviorally experts and laypersons evaluated unaesthetic webpages si...

Citation: Kostoulas T, Chanel G, Muszynski M, Lombardo P and Pun T (2017) Films, Affective Computing and Aesthetic Experience: Identifying Emotional and Aesthetic Highlights from Multimodal Signals in a Social Setting. Front. ICT 4:11. doi: 10.3389/fict.2017.00011 Films, affective computing and aesthetic experience: identifying emotional and aesthetic highlights from Multimodal signals in a soc...