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A Psychology of User Experience

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This chapter is concerned with our aesthetic experience of digital products. This is the third component of our account of user experience but unlike the other two elements (involvement and affect), there is no readily available psychology of aesthetics to draw upon.

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Notes

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    This either natural or sexual selection has been challenged. Zahavi (1975) has pointed out that only the fittest peacocks would be able to maintain the weight and inconvenience of large tails.

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    The reader is strongly encouraged to watch this talk as it is filled with wonderful animated cartoons created by Andrew Park,https://www.ted.com/talks/denis_dutton_a_darwinian_theory_of_beauty.

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Turner, P. (2017). Aesthetics. In: A Psychology of User Experience . Human–Computer Interaction Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70653-5_5

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