2016
Da Silva, O., Crilly, N., & Hekkert, P. (in press). Beauty in efficiency: An experimental enquiry into the principle of maximum effect for minimum means. Empirical Studies of the Arts.
Da Silva, O., Crilly, N., & Hekkert, P. (2016). Maximum effect for minimum means: The aesthetics of efficiency. Design Issues, 32(1), 41–51.
Post, R. A. G., Blijlevens, J., & Hekkert, P. (2016). ‘To preserve unity while almost allowing for chaos’: Testing the aesthetic principle of unity-in-variety in product design. Acta Psychologica, 163, 142-152.
2015
Cila, N., M. Rozendaal, M. Berghman & P. Hekkert (2015). Searching for balance in aesthetic pleasure in interaction. DeSForM 2015, Milan, Politecnico di Milano, October 13-17.
Da Silva, O., Crilly, N., & Hekkert, P. (2015). How people’s appreciation of products is affected by their knowledge of the designers’ intentions. International Journal of Design, 9(2), 21–33.
Hassenzahl, M., Lenz, E., Diefenbach, S., & Teck, N. G. K. (2015). The delicacy of handshakes: Reflections on the aesthetics of interaction. In Proceedings of DeSForM 2015, Dynamic, Multisensory, Wise (pp. 206-214).
Hekkert, P., & Cila, N. (2015). Handle with care! Why and how designers make use of product metaphors. Design Studies, 40, 196-217.
Post, R. A. G., Da Silva, O., & Hekkert, P. (2015). The beauty in product-service-systems. In: IASDR2015 - Interplay (pp. 1717-1729). Brisbane, Australia.
Post, R. A. G., Saakes, D., & Hekkert, P. (2015). A Design Research Methodology using 3D-Printed Modular Designs to Study the Aesthetic Appreciation of Form and Material. In: Design and semantics of form and movement - Aesthetics of interaction: Dynamic, Multisensory, Wise (pp. 347-350). Milan, Italy: Politecnico Milano, Department of Design.
2014
Berghman, M., Cila, N., & Hekkert, P. (2014, August). The Combined Effect of Perceptual and Conceptual Dimensions on Product Design Aesthetics. In A. Kozbelt, P. P. L. Tinio & P. J. Locher, Proceedings of the 23rd Biennial Congress of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics (IAEA). New York, USA.
Blijlevens, J. & Hekkert, P. (2014). Influence of Social Connectedness and Autonomy on Aesthetic Pleasure for Product Designs. In A. Kozbelt (Ed.), Proceedings of the Thenty-third Biennial Congress of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics (pp. 95-99), August 22-24, New York, USA.
Blijlevens, J., Thurgood, C., Hekkert, P., Leder, H. & T.W.A. Whitfield (2014). The Development of a Reliable and Valid Scale to Measure Aesthetic Pleasure in Design. In A. Kozbelt (Ed.), Proceedings of the Thenty-third Biennial Congress of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics (pp. 100-106), August 22-24, New York, USA.
Cila, N., Borsboom, F. & Hekkert, P. (2014). Determinants of aesthetic preference for product metaphors. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 32(2), 183-203..
Da Silva, O., Crilly, N., & Hekkert, P. (2014). Can a light switch be beautiful? Aesthetic appreciation of products as means. In K. Niedderer & Y.-K. Lim, Design’s big debates: Proceedings of DRS 2014 (pp. 1691–1692). Umeå: Umeå Institute of Design.
Da Silva, O., Crilly, N., & Hekkert, P. (2014). Intentions and the aesthetics of artifacts. In A. Kozbelt, Proceedings of IAEA 2014 (pp. 148–152). New York: Hunter College of the City of New York. (Awarded the Robert Francès Prize: Most Outstanding Student Research Contribution).
Hekkert, P. (2014). Aesthetic responses to design: A battle of impulses. In T. Smith & P. Tinio (Eds.), The Cambridge handbook of the psychology of aesthetics and the arts (pp. 277-299). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Hekkert, P. (2014). What I Talk About When I Talk About Aesthetics. In A. Kozbelt (Ed.), Proceedings of the Thenty-third Biennial Congress of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics (pp. 244-246), August 22-24, New York, USA.
Hekkert, P. & Karana, E. (2014). Designing material experience. In E. Karana, O. Pedgley & V. Rognoli (Eds.), Materials Experience (pp. 3-13). Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Lenz, E., Diefenbach, S., & Hassenzahl, M. (2014). Aesthetics of interaction: a literature synthesis. In Proceedings of the 8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Fun, Fast, Foundational (pp. 628-637). ACM.
Post, R. A. G., Blijlevens, J., & Hekkert, P. (2014, August). Aesthetic Appreciation of Tactile Unity-In-Variety in Product Designs. In A. Kozbelt, P. P. L. Tinio & P. J. Locher, Proceedings of the 23rd Biennial Congress of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics (IAEA). New York, USA.
Thai, C., White, C., & Whitfield, A. W. (2014, August). Neuroaesthetics of the Mundane. In A. Kozbelt, P. P. L. Tinio & P. J. Locher, Proceedings of the 23rd Biennial Congress of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics (IAEA). New York, USA.
Thurgood, C., Hekkert, P. & Blijlevens, J. (2014). The Joint Effect of Typicality and Novelty on Aesthetic Pleasure for Product Designs: Influences of Safety and Risk. In A. Kozbelt (Ed.), Proceedings of the Thenty-third Biennial Congress of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics (pp. 391-396), August 22-24, New York, USA.
Tyagi, S. & Whitfield, A. W. (2014, August). Unravelling Typicality in Mundane Aesthetics. In A. Kozbelt, P. P. L. Tinio & P. J. Locher, Proceedings of the 23rd Biennial Congress of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics (IAEA). New York, USA.
2013
Blijlevens, J. & Hekkert, P. (2013). The influence of a product’s perceived social function on aesthetic pleasure for visual product designs. In U. Ansorge, E. Kirchler, C. Lamm & H. Leder (Eds.), Paper presented at the Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen, Vienna, 24-27 March 2013. Lengerich: Pabst science publishers.
Blijlevens, J., Mugge, R., Ye, P., & Schoormans, J. P. L (2013). The influence of product exposure on trendiness and aesthetic appraisal. International Journal of Design, 7(1), 55-67.
Da Silva, O., Crilly, N., & Hekkert, P. (2013). Aesthetic appreciation of products: The effect of ideas underlying design. In K. Sugiyama, Consilience and innovation in design: Proceedings of IASDR 2013 (Vol. 2, pp. 2558–2566). Tokyo: Shibaura Institute of Technology.
Diefenbach, S., Lenz, E. & Hassenzahl, M. (2013). An Interaction Vocabulary. Describing The How Of Interaction. In Proceedings of the CHI 2013 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Extended abstracts (pp. 607-612). New York: ACM Press.
Hekkert, P., Thurgood, C., & Whitfield, T.W.A. (2013). The Mere Exposure Effect for Consumer Products as a Consequence of Existing Familiarity and Controlled Exposure. Acta Psychologica, 144(2), 411-417. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2013.07.015
Lenz, E., Diefenbach, S. & Hassenzahl, M. (2013). Exploring Relationships Between Interaction Attributes and Experience. Proceedings of the DPPI 2013 Conference on Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces (pp. 126-135). New York: ACM Press.
Post, R. A. G., Blijlevens, J., and Hekkert, P. (2013). The influence of unity-in-variety on aesthetic appreciation of car interiors, In K. Sugiyama (Ed.), Consilience and Innovation in Design: Proceedings of the 5th International Congress of International Association of Societies of Design Research. Tokyo: Shibaura Institute of Technology.
Tyagi, S., Thurgood, C., & Whitfield, T. W. (2013). Unraveling novelty. In K. Sugiyama (Ed.), Consilience and Innovation in Design: Proceedings of the 5th International Congress of International Association of Societies of Design Research. Tokyo: Shibaura Institute of Technology.
2012
Blijlevens, J., Carbon, C.-C., Mugge, R. & Schoormans, J. P. L. (2012), Aesthetic appraisal of product designs: Independent effects of typicality and arousal. British Journal of Psychology, 103, 44–57.
Blijlevens, J., Gemser, G., & Mugge, R. (2012). The importance of being ‘well-placed’: The influence of context on perceived typicality and esthetic appraisal of produce appearance. Acta Psychologica, 139(1), 178-186.
Diefenbach, S., Hassenzahl, M. & Lenz, E. (2012). Ansätze zur Beschreibung der Ästhetik von Interaktion. In H. Reiterer & O. Deussen (Eds.): Workshopband Mensch & Computer 2012. (pp. 121-127) München: Oldenbourg.
Hekkert, P. (2012). Project UMA: Towards a unified model of aesthetics. Paper presented at the 22nd Biennial Congress of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics, 22-25 August 2012, Taipei, Taiwan.
Post, R. A. G., Blijlevens, J., and Hekkert, P. (2012). Unity-in-variety in product design aesthetics, In Proceedings of TeaP 2012, Pabst science publishers, pp 217.
Thurgood, C., & Whitfield, T.W.A. (2012). The mere exposure effect with real world objects: Exposure duration and prototypicality. Paper presented at the 22nd Biennial Congress of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics, 22-25 August 2012, Taipei, Taiwan.