Implicit experiences as a determinant of perceptual quality and aesthetic appreciation

Abstract

Since the Dadaist refusal of the conventional standards in art, followed by Fluxus` rejection of art as a commodity, and recently, the popularity of Internet and technology in art, artworks have become difficult to recognize as artworks in themselves. Modern works of art are no longer readily only seen today, more often fully experienced. The processing of an aesthetic experience needs a new understanding in terms of the changing context of art and the experiential perspective of art recipients. In the multimedia arena, the valid assumption is that, evaluations of aesthetic experiences are mostly based on the accessible information on the surface of the medium. Several research groups in psychology question the singularity of exterior-level assumptions demonstrating that there are modulating factors that affect aesthetic experiences and one of these is implicit experience. In this paper, we review the significance of empirical aesthetics in psychology and from the artistic point of view combined with a technical and experiential perspective. We also discuss our approach of considering the implications of implicit experiences to the modelling of Quality of Experience (QoE) where this is used as a measurement of perception and aesthetic judgment of contemporary and modern works of art.

Crowdsourcing-based multimedia subjective evaluations

“…Furthermore, correlation between aesthetic ratings and familiarity has been reported in [3]. Content recognizability has been shown to have an influence on aesthetic appeal in [14,17], and abstract paintings were found to be less likely appreciated by people with respect to immediate works of art [16].…”

“…Along with this quantity, participants also rated the level of recognizability of the content of the image. This second quantity is related to perceptual fluency [17], which is known to have an effect on the aesthetic appeal of works of art. In this study, we wanted to check whether this effect was preserved also when judging the aesthetic appeal of consumer images.…”

“…Before computational models can be created that reliably predict the aesthetic appeal of an image [9], in-depth knowledge is needed on actual user aesthetic preferences. This is not a trivial task, as aesthetic preferences are typically considered to be highly subjective and related to personal implicit experiences [17], cognitive biases, and personal opinions and memories [18]. Nevertheless, some research on the matter has been conducted by means of self assessments, eye tracking experiments and physiological measurements [22].…”

Modelling Human Factors in Perceptual Multimedia Quality

“…This may, consequently, influence what viewers consider to be of 'good' or 'bad' quality. Some works (for example [6,21,26,32,33,38]) which do investigate the influence of above-mentioned human factors are often based on subjective tests applied to samples. However, it is seldom the case that samples are deliberately drawn from cross-cultural contexts.…”

When cheesecake craving unplugs the pleasure button

“…However, an experience of art is more than just the by-products of innate pleasure circuits; there are factors that draw an individual to them. In our previous study we observed that implicit experiences (IE) lead to a positive evaluation of Quality of Experience (QoE) [Mansilla et al, 2011]. On the other hand, it is important to recognize that aesthetic experience is in part modulated by human nature.…”