Art perception and appreciation in galleries and museums: Multi-method studies with a focus on mobile eye-tracking and questionnaires KU Leuven
Research in empirical aesthetics has mainly been limited to laboratory experiments or large-scale online studies, presenting natural images (photographs of outdoor or indoor scenes) or images of paintings to convenience samples (mainly students or Amazon Mechanical Turk workers). Everyone realizes that the insights gained from such studies are quite limited in terms of their generalizability to the sometimes really deep aesthetic emotions ...