scholarly journals A Review of EEG and fMRI Measuring Aesthetic Processing in Visual User Experience Research

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Zhepeng Rui ◽  
Zhenyu Gu
Keyword(s):  
User Experience ◽  
Aesthetic Judgment ◽  
Computer Interface ◽  
Aesthetic Appreciation ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Entry Points ◽  
Visual Interaction ◽  
The Aesthetic

In human-computer interaction, the visual interaction of user experience (UX) and user interface (UI) plays an important role in enriching the quality of daily life. The purpose of our study analyzes the use of brain-computer interface (BCI), wearable technology, and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to explore the aesthetic processing of visual neural response to UI and UX designs. Specifically, this review aims to understand neuroaesthetic processing knowledge, aesthetic appreciation models, and the ways in which visual brain studies can improve the quality of current and future UI and UX designs. Recent research has found that subjective evaluations of aesthetic appreciation produce different results for objective evaluations of brain research analysis. We applied SWOT analysis and examined the advantages and disadvantages of both evaluation methods. Furthermore, we conducted a traditional literature review on topics pertaining to the use of aesthetic processing knowledge in the visual interaction field in terms of art therapy, information visualization, website or mobile applications, and other interactive platforms. Our main research findings from current studies have helped and motivated researchers and designers to use convincing scientific knowledge of brain event-related potential, electroencephalography, and fMRI to understand aesthetic judgment. The key trend finds that many designers, artists, and engineers use artistic BCI technology in the visual interaction experience. Herein, the scientific methods applied in the aesthetic appreciation to human-computer interface are summarized, and the influence of the latest wearable brain technology on visual interaction design is discussed. Furthermore, current possible research entry points for aesthetics, usability, and creativity in UI and UX designs are explicated. The study results have implications for the visual user experience research domain as well as for interaction industries, which produce interactive projects to improve people’s daily lives.

scholarly journals Perception and Appreciation of Tactile Objects: The Role of Visual Experience and Texture Parameters

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. K. M. Rezaul Karim ◽  
Sanchary Prativa ◽  
Lora T. Likova
Keyword(s):  
Visual Experience ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Aesthetic Judgment ◽  
Aesthetic Appreciation ◽  
Visual Aesthetics ◽  
Tactile Stimuli ◽  
Texture Parameters ◽  
Study Results ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Affective Dimensions

This exploratory study was designed to examine the effects of visual experience and specific texture parameters on both discriminative and aesthetic aspects of tactile perception. To this end, the authors conducted two experiments using a novel behavioral (ranking) approach in blind and (blindfolded) sighted individuals. Groups of congenitally blind, late blind, and (blindfolded) sighted participants made relative stimulus preference, aesthetic appreciation, and smoothness or softness judgment of two-dimensional (2D) or three-dimensional (3D) tactile surfaces through active touch. In both experiments, the aesthetic judgment was assessed on three affective dimensions, Relaxation, Hedonics, and Arousal, hypothesized to underlie visual aesthetics in a prior study. Results demonstrated that none of these behavioral judgments significantly varied as a function of visual experience in either experiment. However, irrespective of visual experience, significant differences were identified in all these behavioral judgments across the physical levels of smoothness or softness. In general, 2D smoothness or 3D softness discrimination was proportional to the level of physical smoothness or softness. Second, the smoother or softer tactile stimuli were preferred over the rougher or harder tactile stimuli. Third, the 3D affective structure of visual aesthetics appeared to be amodal and applicable to tactile aesthetics. However, analysis of the aesthetic profile across the affective dimensions revealed some striking differences between the forms of appreciation of smoothness and softness, uncovering unanticipated substructures in the nascent field of tactile aesthetics. While the physically softer 3D stimuli received higher ranks on all three affective dimensions, the physically smoother 2D stimuli received higher ranks on the Relaxation and Hedonics but lower ranks on the Arousal dimension. Moreover, the Relaxation and Hedonics ranks accurately overlapped with one another across all the physical levels of softness/hardness, but not across the physical levels of smoothness/roughness. These findings suggest that physical texture parameters not only affect basic tactile discrimination but differentially mediate tactile preferences, and aesthetic appreciation. The theoretical and practical implications of these novel findings are discussed.

scholarly journals Aesthetics in motion: The beauty of action paintings as revealed by Parkinson’s disease

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stacey Humphries ◽  
Jacqueline Rick ◽  
Daniel Weintraub ◽  
Anjan Chatterjee
Keyword(s):  
Parkinson’S Disease ◽  
Parkinson's Disease ◽  
Motor System ◽  
Aesthetic Judgment ◽  
Aesthetic Appreciation ◽  
Visual Metaphor ◽  
Embodied Simulation ◽  
Aesthetic Experiences ◽  
Subjective Value ◽  
The Aesthetic

Visual art offers cognitive neuroscience an opportunity to study how subjective value is constructed from representations supported by multiple neural systems. A surprising finding in research on aesthetic judgment is that functional activation of motor areas of the brain often occurs in response to static, abstract stimuli, such as paintings. This motor activity has variously been hypothesised to reflect the embodied simulation of an artist’s painting movements or emotions, as well as possible preparatory approach-avoidance responses to liked and disliked artworks. However, whether this motor involvement functionally contributes to aesthetic appreciation has not been addressed. Here, we examined whether motor system dysfunction alters the aesthetic experiences of patients with Parkinson’s disease. 43 people with Parkinson’s disease and 40 controls made preference decisions and rated the motion content and their aesthetic appreciation of a set of high-motion action paintings (by Jackson Pollock) and a set of low-motion neoplastic paintings (by Piet Mondrian). People with Parkinson’s disease demonstrated stable and internally consistent preferences for abstract art, but their perception of movement in the paintings was significantly lower in both conditions than that of controls. In addition, people with Parkinson’s demonstrated enhanced preferences for high-motion art, and a fundamentally altered relationship between motion and aesthetic appreciation. Our results do not accord well with a straightforward embodied simulation account of aesthetic experiences, because artworks that did not include visual traces of the artist’s actions were still experienced as lower in motion by Parkinson’s patients. We suggest that the ability to form movement representations from static abstract images is more akin to a process of visual metaphor comprehension that is mediated through the motor system. Overall, we find support for hypotheses linking motion, motor responses and aesthetic appreciation, and provide clear evidence that altered neural functioning changes the way art is perceived and valued.

ASSESSMENT OF AESTHETIC ATTRACTIVENESS OF LANDSCAPES WHEN PLANNING OF RECREATION AREAS (Belgorod region as an example)

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-50
Author(s):  
Elena Ladik ◽  
T. Prohorova
Keyword(s):  
Assessment Method ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Emotional Perception ◽  
Recreation Areas ◽  
Regional Landscape ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Chalk Outcrops

The article is focused on studies of domestic and foreign scientists concerning the aesthetic properties of landscapes. Different methodological approaches of analysis and description of the visual quality of landscapes are presented. The world experience in the application of methods to assess the landscape attractiveness of territories when arranging of recreational zones was studied. The analysis of different types of landscapes, their aesthetic advantages and disadvantages, as well as characteristics from the point of view of the arrangements of recreational areas was carried out. The relation between natural features of the area, its aesthetic parameters and the demand degree among vacationers was revealed. The features of the natural framework of the Belgorod region were determined; characteristic of regional landscape features, affecting the emotional perception of landscapes (chalk outcrops, wetlands of riverine lands, etc.) were identified. The assessment of the aesthetic attractiveness of landscapes is carried out using the territories of the Valuysky municipal district as an example. The localization of the areas with the greatest aesthetic attractiveness was determined and the promising territories for the development of recreational zones were identified. The compositional structure of the gully-like landscape was analyzed as one of the characteristic features for this region as a whole. Recommendations on the application of the assessment method for aesthetic of landscape attractiveness, taking into account regional characteristics the Belgorod region as an example were proposed.

Why Sārus Cranes epitomize Karuṇarasa in the Rāmāyaṇa

2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-211
Author(s):  
NIELS HAMMER
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Affective Neuroscience ◽  
Aesthetic Appreciation ◽  
Affective States ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Critical Literature

AbstractBy correlating literary evidence, avian ethology and neurophysiology I will try to demonstrate why Vālmīki chose a pair of Sārus Cranes, and not any other avian species, to epitomise grief and sorrow in the Rāmāyaṇa. This choice illustrates the importance of personal experience of the living reality (behaviour of Sārus Cranes); but the grief, śoka, as experienced by Vālmīki, became in later critical literature, the rasa of karuṇa, the aesthetic appreciation of grief, as suggested by Ānandavardhana and explained by Abhinavagupta. By emphasising the central importance of affective states (sthāyibhāvas) in life as well as in the arts (rasas) Vālmīki, Abhinavagupta and Ānandavardhana appear to have had a perception of the human condition that is consistent with recent developments in affective neuroscience; and thus it is the pitch and the tonal quality of the cries of grief that convey the depth and universality (sādhāraṇatva) of the emotion.

scholarly journals Perception and Appreciation of Tactile Objects: The Role of Visual Experience and Texture Parameters †

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. K. M. Rezaul Karim ◽  
Sanchary Prativa ◽  
Lora T. Likova
Keyword(s):  
Visual Experience ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Aesthetic Appreciation ◽  
Visual Aesthetics ◽  
Tactile Stimuli ◽  
Texture Parameters ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Congenitally Blind ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Affective Dimensions

This exploratory study was designed to examine the effects of visual experience and specific texture parameters on both discriminative and aesthetic aspects of tactile perception. To this end, the authors conducted two experiments using a novel behavioral (ranking) approach in blind and (blindfolded) sighted individuals. Groups of congenitally blind, late blind, and (blindfolded) sighted participants made relative stimulus preference, aesthetic appreciation, and smoothness or softness judgment of two-dimensional (2D) or three-dimensional (3D) tactile surfaces through active touch. In both experiments, the aesthetic judgmen t was assessed on three affective dimensions, Relaxation, Hedonics, and Arousal, hypothesized to underlie visual aesthetics in a prior study. Results demonstrated that none of these behavioral judgments significantly varied as a function of visual experience in either experiment. However, irrespective of visual experience, significant differences were identified in all these behavioral judgments across the physical levels of smoothness or softness. In general, 2D smoothness or 3D softness discrimination was proportional to the level of physical smoothness or softness. Second, the smoother or softer tactile stimuli were preferred over the rougher or harder tactile stimuli. Third, the 3D affective structure of visual aesthetics appeared to be amodal and applicable to tactile aesthetics. However, analysis of the aesthetic profile across the affective dimensions revealed some striking differences between the forms of appreciation of smoothness and softness, uncovering unanticipated substructures in the nascent field of tactile aesthetics. While the physically softer 3D stimuli received higher ranks on all three affective dimensions, the physically smoother 2D stimuli received higher ranks on the Relaxation and Hedonics but lower ranks on the Arousal dimension. Moreover, the Relaxation and Hedonics ranks accurately overlapped with one another across all the physical levels of softness/hardness, but not across the physical levels of smoothness/roughness. These findings suggest that physical texture parameters not only affect basic tactile discrimination but differentially mediate tactile preferences, and aesthetic appreciation. The theoretical and practical implications of these novel findings are discussed.

scholarly journals The Impact of Motor Imageries on Aesthetic Judgment of Chinese Calligraphy: An fMRI Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mingcheng He ◽  
Wei Zhang ◽  
Hira Shahid ◽  
Yushan Liu ◽  
Xiaoling Liang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Motor Imagery ◽  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
Aesthetic Judgment ◽  
Aesthetic Appreciation ◽  
Chinese Calligraphy ◽  
Imaging Results ◽  
Kinesthetic Imagery ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Aesthetic Judgments

Previous behavioral studies on aesthetics demonstrated that there was a close association between perceived action and aesthetic appreciation. However, few studies explored whether motor imagery would influence aesthetic experience and its neural substrates. In the current study, Chinese calligraphy was used as the stimuli to explore the relationship between the motor imagery and the aesthetic judgments of a participant using functional magnetic resonance imaging. The imaging results showed that, compared with the baseline, the activation of the brain regions [e.g., anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), putamen, and insula] involved in perceptual processing, cognitive judgments, aesthetic emotional, and reward processing was observed after the participants performed motor imagery tasks. The contrast analyses within aesthetic judgments showed that the kinesthetic imagery significantly activated the middle frontal gyrus, postcentral gyrus, ACC, and thalamus. Generally, these areas were considered to be closely related to positive aesthetic experience and suggested that motor imagery, especially kinesthetic imagery, might be specifically associated with the aesthetic appreciation of Chinese calligraphy.

ArTbitration: Human-Machine Interaction in Artistic Domains

Leonardo ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Artemis Moroni ◽  
Fernando Von Zuben ◽  
Jônatas Manzolli
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Computation ◽  
Computational Intelligence ◽  
Aesthetic Judgment ◽  
Optimization Process ◽  
Computational Creativity ◽  
Human Machine Interaction ◽  
Iterative Optimization ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Machine Interaction

In this article, the authors analyze the process of humanmachine interaction in the context of artistic domains, as a framework for exploring creativity and producing results that could not be obtained without such interaction. “ArTbitration” denotes a process aimed at improving users' aesthetic judgment involving evolutionary computation and other computational intelligence methodologies. The authors interpret it as an interactive, iterative optimization process. They also suggest ArTbitration as an effective way to produce art through the efficient manipulation of information and the proper use of computational creativity to increase the complexity of the results, without neglecting the aesthetic aspects. The article emphasizes the spoken, visual and musical domains, since these are generally characterized by the lack of a systematic way to determine the quality of the result.

Controversial works of art

2004 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 385-407
Author(s):  
Tasos Zembylas
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
The Political ◽  
Aesthetic Appreciation ◽  
Public Affair ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Legal Legitimacy ◽  
The Mass Media ◽  
The Aesthetic

Art is a public affair because its meaning is always collectively negotiated. Thus, public conflicts that are triggered by works of art are essentially political and inevitable. The analysis of these conflicts points to the effective limits of acceptability of art in a given social constellation. The following paper investigates two types of art conflicts: (1) conflicts that, at first glance, revolve around the interpretation and the aesthetic appreciation of an artwork; and (2) conflicts that explicitly call into question the legal legitimacy of publication of an artwork. This investigation aims to reveal the variety of contents and conditions which pre-structure public conflicts. Further, it opens a normative discussion of the current forms of dealing with such conflicts in the mass media and in the jurisdiction. Such a critical discussion is necessary, since the political quality of a society can be assessed on how it relates to its own conflicting nature.

Movement in Aesthetic Experiences: What We Can Learn from Parkinson's Disease

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Stacey Humphries ◽  
Jacqueline Rick ◽  
Daniel Weintraub ◽  
Anjan Chatterjee
Keyword(s):  
Parkinson’S Disease ◽  
Parkinson's Disease ◽  
Aesthetic Judgment ◽  
Motor Dysfunction ◽  
Neural Systems ◽  
Aesthetic Appreciation ◽  
Jackson Pollock ◽  
Aesthetic Experiences ◽  
Subjective Value ◽  
The Aesthetic

Abstract Visual art offers cognitive neuroscience an opportunity to study how subjective value is constructed from representations supported by multiple neural systems. A surprising finding in aesthetic judgment research is the functional activation of motor areas in response to static, abstract stimuli, like paintings, which has been hypothesized to reflect embodied simulations of artists' painting movements, or preparatory approach–avoidance responses to liked and disliked artworks. However, whether this motor involvement functionally contributes to aesthetic appreciation has not been addressed. Here, we examined the aesthetic experiences of patients with motor dysfunction. Forty-three people with Parkinson's disease and 40 controls made motion and aesthetics judgments of high-motion Jackson Pollock paintings and low-motion Piet Mondrian paintings. People with Parkinson's disease demonstrated stable and internally consistent preferences for abstract art, but their perception of movement in the paintings was significantly lower than controls in both conditions. The patients also demonstrated enhanced preferences for high-motion art and an altered relationship between motion and aesthetic appreciation. Our results do not accord well with a straightforward embodied simulation account of aesthetic experiences, because artworks that did not include visual traces of the artist's actions were still experienced as lower in motion by Parkinson's patients. We suggest that the motor system may be involved in integrating low-level visual features to form abstract representations of movement rather than simulations of specific bodily actions. Overall, we find support for hypotheses linking motor responses and aesthetic appreciation and show that altered neural functioning changes the way art is perceived and valued.

scholarly journals Assessment of aesthetical quality of architectural elements of Colonial buildings in Jalan Basuki Rahmat, Malang

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
ARTEKS Jurnal Teknik Arsitektur ◽  
Syamsun Ramli ◽  
herry santosa
Keyword(s):  
Public Perception ◽  
Initial Step ◽  
Aesthetic Judgment ◽  
Aesthetic Value ◽  
Distinctive Character ◽  
Aesthetic Quality ◽  
Architectural Elements ◽  
Architectural Element ◽  
The Aesthetic

The characters of a building are formed by several elements, one of them is an architectural element. The architectural element can be assessed using aesthetic judgment scales. Aesthetic value is closely related to public perception. The Colonial buildings in Jalan Basuki Rahmat have distinctive character that worth to be preserved. Assessment of building aesthetic is the initial step in the effort to preserve colonial buildings. This study aims to assess the aesthetic quality of the architectural elements of Colonial buildings in Jalan Basuki Rahmat. Questionnaires are used to collect data, and Aesthetic measurement is carried out using the semantic differential scale. The community members are requested to judge the aesthetic quality of the buildings based on their own perceptions by looking at photos. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, independent samples test, and linear regression. The research results showed that the architectural element that had the most significant impact on the aesthetic quality of Colonial buildings were the façade. The Colonial building with the highest aesthetic value is the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Malang.

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