Beauty constructs for MP3 players

Beauty constructs for MP 3 players

This paper contributes to the current debate about the nature of beauty and aesthetics as they apply to interactive products. Current disagreement centres around the question of whether beauty should be viewed as a continuous property of objects or as a rare emotional response to object encounters (Hassenzahl 2004, Frohlich 2004). Here we develop a new perspective of beauty as a complex psychol...

Podcasting and MP3 players: emerging education technologies.

The effects of practice with MP3 players on driving performance.

This study examined the effects of repeated iPod interactions on driver performance to determine if performance decrements decreased with practice. Nineteen younger drivers (mean age=19.4, range 18-22) participated in a seven session study in the University of Calgary Driving Simulator (UCDS). Drivers encountered a number of critical events on the roadways while interacting with an iPod includi...

Adolescents and MP3 players: too many risks, too few precautions.

OBJECTIVE The goal was to assess risky and protective listening behaviors of adolescent users of MP3 players and the association of these behaviors with demographic characteristics and frequency of use. METHODS In 2007, 1687 adolescents (12-19 years of age) in 68 classes in 15 Dutch secondary schools were invited to complete questionnaires about their music-listening behaviors. RESULTS . Ni...

MP3 players and hearing loss: adolescents' perceptions of loud music and hearing conservation.

OBJECTIVE To explore adolescents' behaviors and opinions about exposure to loud music from MP3 players. STUDY DESIGN We conducted a qualitative analysis of focus-group discussions with adolescents aged 12 to 18 years from 2 large secondary schools (1 urban and 1 rural) for pre-vocational and pre-university education. The semi-structured question route was theoretically framed within the prote...