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Aesthetic sensitivity has been reported as a prerequisite of aesthetic experience. Designers need to understand differences in appreciation of aesthetic objects by intended user group of their designed artifacts. This paper proposes a new instrument to measure aesthetic sensitivity. The proposed instrument consists of 43 items; each item further consists of five visual compositions. A total of 125 subjects were chosen from different age groups and educational backgrounds. Subjects were asked to rank order the compositions based on their feeling of pleasure while looking at them. The internal reliability of items was found to be statistically significant.
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Bairisal, S., Kumar, J. (2019). Design and Development of a New Instrument for Measuring Aesthetic Sensitivity. In: Chakrabarti, A. (eds) Research into Design for a Connected World. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 135. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-5977-4_24
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