Print Email Facebook Twitter The development of a reliable and valid scale to measure aesthetic pleasure in design Title The development of a reliable and valid scale to measure aesthetic pleasure in design Author Blijlevens, J. Thurgood, C. Hekkert, P.P.M. Leder, H. Whitfield, T.W.A. Faculty Industrial Design Engineering Department Industrial Design Date 2014-08-22 Abstract There is a lack of consistency regarding the scales used to measure aesthetic pleasure. They are often chosen ad hoc or derived from other research fields but never validated for design. Moreover, those scales often do not measure aesthetic pleasure in isolation, but instead include its determinants (e.g., novelty). Therefore, we developed a scale to measure aesthetic pleasure. We also included scales to measure determinants known to influence aesthetic pleasure for discriminant validity purposes. In the exploratory phase, we identified highly reliable items representative of aesthetic pleasure and its determinants across product categories. In the validation phase, we confirmed these findings across different countries (Australia, Netherlands). Apart from the theoretical contribution, this research has practical implications for guiding designers. Subject aesthetic pleasuredesignscale developmentdeterminants of aesthetic pleasure To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:236a98a7-2637-4a98-a855-5b46b570e2d5 Publisher IAEA Source Proceedings of the 23rd Biennial Congress of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics, 22-24 augustus 2014, New York, USA Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2014 The Author(s) Files PDF 309982.pdf 424.02 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:236a98a7-2637-4a98-a855-5b46b570e2d5/datastream/OBJ/view