Humans respond cognitively and emotionally to the built environment. The modern
possibility of recording the neural activity of subjects during exposure to environmental …

Human aesthetic processing entails the sensation‐based evaluation of an entity with respect
to concepts like beauty, harmony or well‐formedness. Aesthetic appreciation has many …

Two experiments were designed to replicate and extend [Lindgaard et al.'s, 2006. Attention
web designers: you have 50ms to make a good first impression! Behaviour and Information …

The investigation of aesthetic processing has constituted a longstanding tradition in
experimental psychology, of which experimental aesthetics is the second-oldest branch. The …

Descriptive symmetry and evaluative aesthetic judgment processes were compared using
identical stimuli in both judgment tasks. Electrophysiological activity was recorded while …

Processes underlying aesthetic appreciation of formal graphic black and white patterns were
investigated. In previous EEG studies on aesthetic and symmetry judgments, an early …

Practitioners argue that product design is rapidly emerging as a determinant of marketplace
success (Miller & Adler, 2003), in part because design can serve as a point of di erentiation …

While many studies have considered the usability of website homepages, subjective issues
such as preference have been under explored. This paper describes a pilot study that …

The cognitive and emotional processes involved in experiencing an artwork are influenced
by characteristics of the artwork and the viewer, but also by contextual factors. We studied …

Recent advances of the broadband Internet and multimedia contents let web users demand
from web pages not only cognitive usability but also appropriate feelings. At the same time …