Thesis
Hekkert, P. (1995). Artful judgements: A psychological inquiry into aesthetic preference for visual patterns. Unpublished doctoral thesis, Delft University of Technology.
Journal papers (from 1996)
Hekkert, P. (2006). Design aesthetics: Principles of pleasure in product design, in press.
Van Rompay, T., Hekkert, P., Saakes, D., & Russo, B. (2005). Grounding abstract object characteristics in embodied interactions. Acta Psychologica, 119, 315-351.
Van Rompay, T., Hekkert, P., & Muller, W. (2005). The bodily basis of product experience. Design Studies, 26, 359-377.
Hekkert, P., Snelders, H.M.J.J., & van Wieringen, P.C.W. (2003). Most advanced, yet acceptable: Typicality and novelty as joint predictors of aesthetic preference. British Journal of Psychology, 94, 111-124.
Desmet, P.M.A., Hekkert, P., & Jacobs, J.J. (2000). When a car makes you smile: Development and application of an instrument to measure product emotions. Advances in Consumer Research, 27, 111-117. (download )
Snelders, D. & Hekkert, P. (1999). Association measures as predictors of product originality. Advances in Consumer Research, 26, 588-592. (download )
Hekkert, P. & Snelders, D. (1999). Il nuovo e l'appropriato come componenti nella valutazione dell[base ']originalità del design. Rassegna di Psicologia, 16, 97-110.
Gielen, M.A., Hekkert, P., & van Ooy, C.M. (1998). Problem restructuring as a key to a new solution space: A sample project in the field of toy design for disabled children. The Design Journal, 1, 12-23.
Hekkert, P. & van Wieringen, P.C.W. (1997). Assessment of aesthetic quality of artworks by expert observers: An empirical investigation of group decisions. Poetics, 25, 281-292.
Hekkert, P. & Wieringen, P.C.W., van. (1996). Beauty in the eye of expert and nonexpert beholders: A study in the appraisal of art. American Journal of Psychology, 109, 389-407.
Others (downloadable)
Hekkert, P. (2001). The experience of Design. D3 Desire Designum Design: 4th European Academy of Design Conference Proceedings (pp. 396-401), Aveiro, Portugal. (download )
Van Rompay, T.J.L. & Hekkert, P. (2001). Embodied design: On the role of bodily experiences in product design. In M.G. Helander, H.M. Khalid, & M.P. Tham (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Affective Human Factors Design (pp. 39-46). London: Asean Academic Press.
contact
Department of Industrial DesignLandbergstraat 15
2628CE Delft
room: 3B-09
phone: 015-2781346
email: p.p.m.hekkert@tudelft.nl
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