Zooming in on style: Exploring style perception using details of paintings

Most studies on the perception of style have used whole scenes/entire paintings; in our study, we isolated a single motif (an apple) to reduce or even eliminate the influence of composition, iconography, and other contextual information. In this article, we empirically address two fundamental questions of the existence (Experiment 1) and...

A juicy orange makes for a tastier juice: The neglected role of visual material perception in packaging design

Food appearance sets intentions and expectations. When designing packaged food much attention is devoted to packaging elements like color and shape, but less to the characteristics of the images used. To our awareness, no study has yet investigated how the appearance of the food shown on the package affects consumers’ preferences. Often, orange...

Seat Vibration Simulator for Ride Comfort Evaluation

Ride comfort is one of the aspects of vehicles that manufacturers are constantly trying to improve, and seat vibration is an important contributing factor to ride comfort. The present study developed a seat vibration simulator for investigating the human perception of seat vibration and its application on ride comfort evaluation. <br/><br/>The...