Self awareness, teamed with Kim awareness and Bae awareness, produced this study about unwrapping wrapped boxes: “Exploring the First Momentary Unboxing Experience with Aesthetic Interaction,” Chajoong Kim, James A. Self, and Jieun Bae, The Design Journal, vol. 21, no. 3, 2018, pp. 417-438. Here’s detail from the study: The authors are at UNIST (Ulsan National […]
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Effect of Wrapping Neatness on Gift Attitudes [research study]
What exactly is the effect of wrapping neatness on gift attitudes? A new study gives everyone the chance to ponder anew this vexatious question. The study is: “Presentation Matters: The Effect of Wrapping Neatness on Gift Attitudes,” Jessica M. Rixom [pictured here], Erick M. Mas, and Brett A. Rixom, Journal of Consumer Psychology, epub 2019. […]
The Philosophy of Skin – It’s a wrap. (Thanks, Heidegger’s Verstehen!)
A great deal of academic research has focussed on skin. Indeed, skin regularly features heavily in several specialist scholarly journals – not only covering its behaviour and its problems, but also its aesthetics. But less weight has been afforded to inquiries regarding what might be called the the ‘philosophy’ of skin. The balance may have […]