An experimental study examined whether the effects of aesthetic appeal on usability test outcomes are moderated by usage domain. The aesthetic appeal of a cell phone was experimentally manipulated in both home- and work-based usage domains. The two usage domains were modeled in a usability laboratory. 60 participants completed a series of typical cell phone user tasks. Dependent measures such as performance, perceived usability, and emotion were taken. The results showed that aesthetic appeal had a positive effect on perceived usability but a negative effect on performance. The effects of aesthetic appeal on usability test outcomes were not moderated by usage domain. The results of this study imply that it may be sufficient to test dual-dom...
ABSRACT For more than a decade, the correlation between beauty and perceived usability has been a po...
The study examines the cumulative impact of factors that affect usability testing for user-centered ...
Several studies reported a dependency between perceived beauty and perceived usability of a user int...
Participants sometimes rate products high in usability despite experiencing obvious usability proble...
When discussing matters of usability, focus is usually kept on functionality whilst other aspects, s...
People judge incoming sensory stimuli immediately by how pleasant or unpleasant these 'feel'. When j...
Designing a highly preferred product or system is a crucial issue for better information-services an...
In this study, apparent usability and affective quality were integrated in a design framework called...
In the field of Human computer interaction, currently aesthetics has become one of the most frequent...
This study focuses on a better understanding of user preferences based on perceived usability and pe...
The merging of usability and aesthetics is one of the more promising contemporary trends in user int...
An experiment was conducted to test the relationships between users ' perceptions of a computer...
In this study, a design framework that integrates functional and aesthetic attributes with apparent ...
Purpose of present paper is to investigate whether aesthetically appealing products are associated w...
While the study of human-machine interactions is fairly well established regarding usability dimensi...
ABSRACT For more than a decade, the correlation between beauty and perceived usability has been a po...
The study examines the cumulative impact of factors that affect usability testing for user-centered ...
Several studies reported a dependency between perceived beauty and perceived usability of a user int...
Participants sometimes rate products high in usability despite experiencing obvious usability proble...
When discussing matters of usability, focus is usually kept on functionality whilst other aspects, s...
People judge incoming sensory stimuli immediately by how pleasant or unpleasant these 'feel'. When j...
Designing a highly preferred product or system is a crucial issue for better information-services an...
In this study, apparent usability and affective quality were integrated in a design framework called...
In the field of Human computer interaction, currently aesthetics has become one of the most frequent...
This study focuses on a better understanding of user preferences based on perceived usability and pe...
The merging of usability and aesthetics is one of the more promising contemporary trends in user int...
An experiment was conducted to test the relationships between users ' perceptions of a computer...
In this study, a design framework that integrates functional and aesthetic attributes with apparent ...
Purpose of present paper is to investigate whether aesthetically appealing products are associated w...
While the study of human-machine interactions is fairly well established regarding usability dimensi...
ABSRACT For more than a decade, the correlation between beauty and perceived usability has been a po...
The study examines the cumulative impact of factors that affect usability testing for user-centered ...
Several studies reported a dependency between perceived beauty and perceived usability of a user int...