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Weißes Leinen

Am Freitag, 21. Dezember 2012 um 19.00 Uhr findet die Eröffnung der Ausstellung „Weißes Leinen“ von Frank Josten statt.

Friends of, Inspirations, ShowsMatthias LaschkeDecember 6, 2012aesthetics, beauty, Frank Josten

User-Experience from an Inference Perspective

PublicationsMarc HassenzahlSeptember 13, 2012aesthetics, beauty, human-computer interaction, inference, user experience

Everything can be beautiful

I argue that everything can be beautiful ... as long as somebody with authority claims it to be.

The mysteries of beauty

Beauty - a topic always good for serious research and heated debates, facts and fiction. Interaction-design.org further extends their wonderful encyclopedia with a chapter by Noam Tractinsky on "Aesthetics in HCI". Here is a sneaky preview ...

The dilemma of the hedonic – Appreciated, but hard to justify

PublicationsMarc HassenzahlAugust 11, 2011aesthetics, beauty, experience design, hedonic quality, human-computer interaction, justification, user experience

Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie

Sarah Diefenbach hält am Mittwoch, den 29. September, 8:30 Uhr einen Vortrag zum Thema "Usability versus Schönheit. Was wiegt schwerer für Produktwahl und Erleben?" inder Arbeitsgruppe "Mensch-Maschine Interaktion I: Usability und User Experience".

TalksMarc HassenzahlSeptember 27, 2010aesthetics, beauty, human-computer interaction, user experience

The Inference of Perceived Usability From Beauty

PublicationsMarc HassenzahlSeptember 11, 2010aesthetics, beauty, human-computer interaction, usability, user experience

Aesthetics in interactive products: Correlates and consequences of beauty

Beauty matters. Certainly, most people would agree. Beauty is an important ingredient of our daily lives. We admire and praise the beauty of nature, architecture, music, other people – an ugly color or an awkward form easily repels us. Given its pervasiveness, the lack of research addressing beauty (or aesthetics) in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is striking (see Tractinsky, 2005).

The "Beauty Dilemma"

The empirical study of aesthetics in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is concerned with – among other topics – the relationship between beauty and usability and the general impact of beauty on product choice and use. Specifically, the present paper explores the notion of a "beauty dilemma" – the idea that people discount beauty in a choice situation, although they value it in general (i.e., they are not choosing what makes them happy). We explored this idea in three studies with a total of over 600 participants.