Urban Design: Age-Linked Opinions
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Seeing, hearing, and judging
Seeing, hearing, and judging
Groth, Block, and Newman studied factors related to whether people choose digital or physical forms of books and similar creative works. As they share, “The explosion in digitization means that individuals increasingly have the opportunity to choose between digital and physical versions of creative works—for example, between eBooks and paperback books. However, despite the popularity of digital objects, many people continue to prefer physical equivalents. We suggest that one reason for this preference is that physical versions of works are felt to embody the essence of their creators.
Van Hedger, Bongiovanni, and Khudhair studied people’s responses to different sounds. They report that “we investigate whether the absolute tuning of music influences listener evaluations of music. Across three experiments, participants rated musical excerpts, tuned conventionally (A4 = 440 Hz) versus unconventionally (±50 cents from conventional tuning), in terms of aesthetic preference. . . . participants clearly preferred the conventionally tuned version for highly familiar recordings, they tended to prefer the version that was highest in absolute pitch if the recording was unfamiliar.
Hula and Samalova study of flower preferences produced intriguing findings. The investigators report that “Our previous studies revealed that Czechs, irrespective of gender, age, education, or level of expertise, display very similar esthetic responses to flowers of diverse shapes and colors, that is, they like and dislike the same flowers. . . . This study compares the flower preferences of the inhabitants of two culturally, geographically, and ecologically highly distinct countries—Czechia . . . and Kenya. . . We found a very strong positive correlation . .
Wood color, amount, and in-use effects
Extraversion, introversion, and chroma
Huang, Han, and Ma investigated user preferences for the design of spaces beside commercial pedestrian streets in China.
Farzanfar and Walther, in a comprehensive open access article, probe visuals that humans respond most positively toward.
Real world test, passed
Di Dio and associates studied human responses to abstract art created by a robot.