Experimental investigation on the effects of website aesthetics on user performance in different virtual tasks.

Creative tasks Digital work Goal orientation Interface aesthetics Search tasks Transfer tasks

Journal

PeerJ
ISSN: 2167-8359
Titre abrégé: PeerJ
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101603425

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
2019
Historique:
received: 07 03 2018
accepted: 25 01 2019
entrez: 28 2 2019
pubmed: 28 2 2019
medline: 28 2 2019
Statut: epublish

Résumé

In Human-Computer Interaction research, the positive effect of aesthetics on users' subjective impressions and reactions is well-accepted. However, results regarding the influence of interface aesthetics on a user's individual performance as an objective outcome are very mixed, yet of urgent interest due to the proceeding of digitalization. In this web-based experiment (

Identifiants

pubmed: 30809464
doi: 10.7717/peerj.6516
pii: 6516
pmc: PMC6388663
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

e6516

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

The authors declare there are no competing interests.

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Auteurs

Meinald T Thielsch (MT)

Department of Psychology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.

Russell Haines (R)

Department of Information Technology and Decision Sciences, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, United States of America.

Leonie Flacke (L)

Department of Psychology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany.

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