The Interplay between Usability and Aesthetics: More Evidence for the “What Is Usable Is Beautiful” Notion

Hamborg, Kai‐Christoph; Hülsmann, Julia; Kaspar, Kai

doi:10.1155/2014/946239

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“…Each scale ranged from 1 to 20. Following Hamborg, Hülsmann, and Kaspar ( 2014 ), we did not apply an individual weighting of the scales ( Hart, 2006 ) because non-weighted scales are highly correlated with the weighted counterparts ( Moroney, Biers, & Eggemeier, 1995 ) and they show a high reliability in the German version of the questionnaire ( Pfendler, 1990 ).…”

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Embodied Information in Cognitive Tasks: Haptic Weight Sensations Affect Task Performance and Processing Style

Kaspar

Vennekötter

2015

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Research in the field of embodied cognition showed that incidental weight sensations influence peoples’ judgments about a variety of issues and objects. Most studies found that heaviness compared to lightness increases the perception of importance, seriousness, and potency. In two experiments, we broadened this scope by investigating the impact of weight sensations on cognitive performance. In Experiment 1, we found that the performance in an anagram task was reduced when participants held a heavy versus a light clipboard in their hands. Reduced performance was accompanied by an increase in the perceived effort. In Experiment 2, a heavy clipboard elicited a specific response heuristic in a two-alternative forced-choice task. Participants showed a significant right side bias when holding a heavy clipboard in their hands. After the task, participants in the heavy clipboard condition reported to be more frustrated than participants in the light clipboard condition. In both experiments, we did not find evidence for mediated effects that had been proposed by previous literature. Overall, the results indicate that weight effects go beyond judgment formation and highlight new avenues for future research.

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Embodied Information in Cognitive Tasks: Haptic Weight Sensations Affect Task Performance and Processing Style

Kaspar

Vennekötter

2015

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“…This conceptual difference between manipulated and perceived characteristics of media content is an important issue not only limited to news (cf. Hamborg et al, 2014). Further, although not supported by the effects observed by KWK, we asked whether suspense would also mediate a potential correlation between the perceived likelihood of a good ending of the news story and reading appreciation/lingering interest.…”

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Thrilling News Revisited: The Role of Suspense for the Enjoyment of News Stories

2016

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Previous research on news perception has been dominated by a cognitively oriented perspective on reception processes, whereas emotions have been widely neglected. Consequently, it has remained open which features of a news story might elicit affective responses and hence modulate news perception, shifting the focus to the emotional potential of the narrative. According to the affective-disposition theory, the experience of suspense is the striving force of immersion in fictional dramas. Thereby, a positive affective disposition toward the protagonist of a story and a high likelihood of a bad ending should increase suspense that, in turn, should positively influence reading appreciation and lingering interest in the story. We investigated whether suspense and its determinants also play such a key role in the context of news stories. Study 1 (n = 263) successfully replicated results of an earlier study, whereas Studies 2 (n = 255) and 3 (n = 599) challenged the generalizability of some effects related to manipulated characteristics of a news story. In contrast, correlational relationships between perceived news characteristics and news evaluation were relatively stable. In particular, participants' liking of the protagonist and the perceived likelihood of a good ending were positively associated with suspense, reading appreciation, and lingering interest. This result indicates a preference for happy endings and contradicts the notion that likely negative outcomes are beneficial for suspense and the enjoyment of news stories, as postulated by the affective-disposition theory in the context of fictional dramas. Moreover, experienced suspense reliably mediated the correlations between, on the one hand, participants' liking of the protagonist and the perceived likelihood of a good ending and, on the other hand, reading appreciation and lingering interest. The news story's personal relevance was less influential than expected. Further, we observed a large absence of interaction effects, indicating that central characteristics of a news story can be independently varied to a large degree. In a nutshell, we may conclude that suspense significantly mediates the correlation between perceived news characteristics and the enjoyment of news stories, whereas manipulations of news characteristics do not necessarily influence the enjoyment of narratives as desired.

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“…3.1 Goal of the Study e goal of the study was to collect indicators describing the validity and reliability of the developed P-SUS. Convergent validity, criterion-related validity, sensitivity, reliability, questionnaire completion time and motivation to complete the questionnaire were assessed in a lab-based experiment, in which participants first interacted with a smartphone prototype developed by Hamborg and colleagues [26], and second evaluated the prototype by means of usability questionnaires.…”

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Pictorial System Usability Scale (P-SUS)

Baumgartner

Frei

Kleinke

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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We have developed a pictorial multi-item scale, called P-SUS (Pictorial System Usability Scale), which aims to measure the perceived usability of mobile devices. The scale is based on the established verbal usability questionnaire SUS (System Usability Scale). A usercentred design process was employed to develop and refine its 10 pictorial items. The scale was tested in a first validation study (N=60) using student participants. Psychometric properties (convergent validity, criterionrelated validity, sensitivity, and reliability), as well as the motivation to fill in the scale were assessed. The results indicated satisfactory convergent validity for about twothirds of the items. Furthermore, strong correlations were obtained for the sum scores between verbal and pictorial SUS, and the pictorial scale was perceived as more motivating than the verbal questionnaire. The P-SUS represents a first attempt to provide a pictorial usability scale for the evaluation of (mobile) devices.

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The Interplay between Usability and Aesthetics: More Evidence for the “What Is Usable Is Beautiful” Notion

Cited by 32 publications

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Embodied Information in Cognitive Tasks: Haptic Weight Sensations Affect Task Performance and Processing Style

Embodied Information in Cognitive Tasks: Haptic Weight Sensations Affect Task Performance and Processing Style

Thrilling News Revisited: The Role of Suspense for the Enjoyment of News Stories

Pictorial System Usability Scale (P-SUS)

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