EPÆG Members
Deputy Head of EPÆG: PhD Marius Raab
- Strategic Virtualization: Distance as a Chance (stravimi.de)
- The psychology of conspiracy theories; the psychology of narration in literature, movies & games (The psychology of conspiracy theories)
- “Game & Gamification: playful approaches to human motivation”
- “Music, sounds & nostalgia: evoking emotional states with auditive stimuli”
Members
Prof. Mark A. Elliott
- Experimental Aesthetics with a focus on composition, and inherent compositional dynamics in pictorial art
- The relationship between Dynamics and aesthetic quality in movement (dance and theatre)
- Philosophy of Aesthetics
- Gestalt Psychology
- Phenomenology, Gestalt and Aesthetics
- Art History and the culture of art
- Creating and collecting art
Associate Professor Dragan Janković
- Psychological aesthetics
- Multisensory perception (cross-modal correspondences, multisensory integration)
- Emotions (affective processing, emotion-cognition interactions)
- Gestalt Psychology
- Developmental psychology (aesthetic, affective and multisensory development)
- Marketing research
- Applied arts & ergonomic design
A.Univ.Prof. .(retired) PhD Rainer Maderthaner
[“Relational analysis (systematic scheme for theoretical and empirical data exploration, hypothesis testing and causal analysis, based on propositional logic)”, “Aesthetics and expression of city and landscape architeture (analysis of effects of design and composition, person-related factors and situation-related factors on the attitude towards and judgment of architeture”, “Quality of life (effect of external and internal factors on well-being”, “Sustainability research (identification of social indicators and evaluation of participatory processes/LA-21-activities”]
Mara Münder
- Acoustics - Perception, Experience & Design
- Multisensory Perception
- Aesthetics & dynamic effects
- User Experience & User Interaction
- Association Principle
Stefan Ortlieb
- Emotional design (e.g., kitsch)
- Empirical aesthetics (e.g., aesthetic appreciation and the dynamics of social motivation)
- Visual marketing (e.g., EU-funded project “Visual Marketing for SMEs”)
- Multimodal marketing (e.g., EU-funded project “Multimodal Marketing for SMEs”)
- Usability and User Experience (e.g., EU-funded Ambient Assisted Living project FEARLESS)
- Creativity and corporate innovativeness (e.g., EU-funded project “Fit for Innovation”)
- Complex problem solving (e.g., EU-funded project PROBAT)
Alumni
Juergen Aichinger
- Consumer psychology
- Marketing
- Industrial Design
Sabine Albrecht
- Processing fluency and judgment formation
- Dynamics of aesthetic appreciation
Simone Deibel
PhD Stella Faerber
- Cognitive and neuronal mechanisms subserving human visual perception and memory.
- High-level adaptation and priming effects of face recognition, object perception and aesthetic appreciation
- EEG correlates of familiarity in face perception
Géza Harsányi
Manuela Härtel
Michael Möller
Theresa Wehrle
- Cognitive psychology
- Visual marketing
- Ergonomics