So far, studies on general judgments of products mainly focused on usability. Only recently, product aesthetics is considered as well. In this context, both information on the visual aesthetics of products and product prototypes are important issues. Several scales exist which measure visual aesthetics of products. However, no scale on the aesthetics of product prototypes has been established y...

Despite its centrality to human thought and practice, aesthetics has for the most part played a petty role in human–computer interaction research. Increasingly, however, researchers attempt to strike a balance between the traditional concerns of human–computer interaction and considerations of aesthetics. Thus, recent research suggests that the visual aesthetics of computer interfaces is a stro...

Visual aesthetics has been shown to critically affect a variety of constructs such as perceived usability, satisfaction, and pleasure. Given the importance of visual aesthetics in humancomputer interaction, it is vital that it is adequately assessed. The present research aimed at providing a precise operational definition and to develop a new measure of perceived visual aesthetics of websites. ...

This article describes the accurateness of our application namely Self-Developed Aesthetics Measurement Application (SDA) in measuring the aesthetics aspect by comparing the results of our application and users’ perceptions in measuring the aesthetics of the web page interfaces. For this research, the positions of objects, images element and texts element are defined as objects in a web page in...

Issues of visual appeal have become an integral part of designing interactive systems. Interface aesthetics may form users' attitudes towards computer applications and information technology. Aesthetics can affect user satisfaction, and influence their willingness to buy or adopt a system. This study follows previous studies that found that users associate aesthetics with other system attribute...

In this paper, we consider the aesthetic criteria and constraints related to the layouts of UML sequence diagrams. We consider the applicability of the traditional graph drawing aesthetics in drawing sequence diagrams. Because of the special nature of sequence diagrams, many of these aesthetics are not applicable. Based on our view on how these diagrams are read or viewed, we propose some new a...

While there have been some important advances in understanding how consumers evaluate specific aspects of visual product aesthetics, there is a lack of a systematic understanding of the processes that link product design aesthetics to broader consumer perceptions. In this research, we show that consumers’ assessment of visual product aesthetics are linked to perceptions of product personality. ...