Exploring interest evoked by product appearance

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Tamer, Aybike

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Interest is a psychological construct characterized by an explorative tendency towards a stimulus. Product appearance, on the other hand, is an important aspect determining the first impression about products and highly influential on users’ psychological and behavioral responses, accordingly. In this study, interest evoked by product appearance is explored with an emphasis on visual qualities of products associated with interestingness. This thesis involves arguments from literature and an empirical study.

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Industrial design.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/18366

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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A. Tamer, “Exploring interest evoked by product appearance,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2008.