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Open research questions in Aesthetic Perception and Analysis

247 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 1,765 Aesthetic Perception and Analysis papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

What the literature leaves open

  • The challenge of connecting a modern artistic glyph to its potential evolutionary precursors. The difficulty of distinguishing the pictorial style and character style in character art. The need to provide historical grounding and stylistic understanding in the analysis of character art.

    Structured context augmentation for multimodal LLMs in character art analysis · 2026 · DOI

  • The framework does not attempt to semantically decipher the glyphs. The standard mLLMs lack historical groundings and are hard to distinguish the pictorial style and character style. The models are trained on broad web-scale data and function as highly capable generalists.

    Structured context augmentation for multimodal LLMs in character art analysis · 2026 · DOI

  • The extent to which there can be such a thing as a significant relation between the aesthetic and understanding is still a controversial question. Aesthetic experience is often seen as separate from cognitive processes. The paper argues that the cognitive complexity of aesthetic experience is generally understated.

    Aesthetic Discovery and Seeking to Understand · 2026 · DOI

  • The technical challenges of encoding complex emotions into visual forms. The difficulty of translating the nuanced spectrum of human emotions into AI-generated imagery. The need for more advanced AI models that can more finely understand and reflect the complexity of human emotions.

    Decoding emotional responses to AI-generated architectural imagery · 2024 · DOI

  • exploring the use of deep learning and neural networks to enhance AI's capability in emotion, - investigating the impact of AI-generated architectural imagery on other populations, - examining the effects of different AI models on emotional expression

    Decoding emotional responses to AI-generated architectural imagery · 2024 · DOI

  • Although art viewing can enhance wellbeing, the effects of embodied interaction, particularly the interplay between artwork scale and locomotion, on the psychological and behavioral dimensions of VR experiences remain understudied.

    Walking settings affect aesthetic emotion during art appreciation in virtual reality · 2026 · DOI

  • As AI-driven creativity advances, future research should focus on making things easier to understand, reducing biases in algorithms, and refining the ways in which humans and AI work together to create new things.

    Fusion of art design and technology in contemporary design · 2026 · DOI

  • Abstract The processes by which traditional artistic knowledge is transmitted across generations with high fidelity remain poorly understood, particularly in non-Western contexts.

    Ritualization of Complex Skill Acquisition · 2026 · DOI

  • However, it remains unclear exactly which features of art knowledge shape understanding and thinking.

    Art knowledge training shapes understanding, inspires creativity and stimulates thinking · 2026 · DOI

  • The relationship between understanding and aesthetic appraisal in mathematics is an open question, with implications for both the philosophy of mathematics and mathematics education.

    Does understanding moderate aesthetic appraisals of proofs? · 2025 · DOI

  • These findings challenge the view that aesthetic judgements in mathematics are merely disguised epistemic judgements, and suggest that future research should focus on exploring the non-epistemic factors that shape aesthetic judgements.

    Does understanding moderate aesthetic appraisals of proofs? · 2025 · DOI

  • Despite this intriguing possibility, limited research has systematically examined these differences.

    Comparative analysis of color emotional perception in art and non-art university students: hue, saturation, and brightness effects in the Munsell color system · 2025 · DOI

  • However, the influence of artistic training on color perception and neural processing remains poorly understood.

    Electroencephalographic (EEG) analysis of hue perception differences between art and non-art majors: insights from the P2 and P3 components · 2025 · DOI

  • Much more remains to be told, especially the stories of the other two conversations about the outside of women's bodies, dance and fashion, and of how they, along with beauty culture, achieved both legitimacy and widespread popularity through the modern technologies of radio, cinema, and mass journalism.

    Building the body beautiful · 1987 · DOI

  • The paper suggests future research prospects of immersive and interactive systems based on AI using creativity. The paper outlines the future research directions of using generative AI to integrate into artistic space.

    ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AS A CREATIVE COLLABORATOR IN CONTEMPORARY VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS · 2026 · DOI

  • The lack of understanding of how AI can be used to support artists in the design and exploration of the artistic process. The need for a framework that integrates information preparation, generative models, human-AI interaction, and rendering to create a creative pipeline in collaboration.

    ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AS A CREATIVE COLLABORATOR IN CONTEMPORARY VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS · 2026 · DOI

  • The gap between human and machine creativity is becoming more and more indistinct. There is a need to discuss the changing argument over authorship in AI-generated art.

    ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-GENERATED ART AND THE QUESTION OF AUTHORSHIP · 2026 · DOI

  • Table 2 shows that final artwork selection has 86% perceived authorship score (highest human influence), but the paper does not examine whether this perception varies across different demographic groups, artistic expertise levels, or cultural backgrounds. The generalizability of authorship perception findings across diverse human evaluators requires investigation.

    ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-GENERATED ART AND THE QUESTION OF AUTHORSHIP · 2026 · DOI

  • The future of cultural analytics in visual arts research will be shaped by emerging technologies. The combination of multimodal data sources, including textual metadata and visual images, can provide new insights into the cultural and historical context of artistic movements.

    CULTURAL ANALYTICS IN VISUAL ARTS: USING DATA SCIENCE TO UNDERSTAND AESTHETIC TRENDS · 2026 · DOI

  • The study identifies a gap in the use of traditional methods to analyze visual arts. The lack of quantitative analysis of aesthetic trends in visual arts is discussed.

    CULTURAL ANALYTICS IN VISUAL ARTS: USING DATA SCIENCE TO UNDERSTAND AESTHETIC TRENDS · 2026 · DOI

  • The study identifies a gap in our understanding of the relationship between human creativity and artificial intelligence. The paper highlights the need for a deeper understanding of the cognitive risks associated with the hybridization of the creative process.

    Creativity versus Artificial Intelligence · 2026 · DOI

  • Limited research has examined how specific design dimensions influence consumer purchase behavior in museum contexts. Existing studies largely operationalize value as a general construct without clearly linking specific product attributes to distinct value dimensions.

    A Conceptual Framework on Decomposing Design Perception into Functional, Color, and Shape Effects on Purchase Behavior of Museum Cultural Products · 2026 · DOI

  • The paper identifies a gap in the existing literature on digital art and interactivity. The study highlights the need for further research on the role of digital brushstrokes in creating a new form of artistic expression. The paper notes that there is a lack of understanding of the relationship between interactivity and viewer engagement in the context of digital brushstroke art.

    Digital brushstrokes: merging art, technology, and interactivity in the age of digital media · 2026 · DOI

  • Existing benchmarks adopt only one annotation protocol, leaving their complementarity unmeasured. There is a need for a dual-protocol benchmark that combines pairwise preferences and pointwise ratings.

    Preferences Order, Ratings Anchor: From Fused Expert Aesthetic Ground Truth to Self-Distillation · 2026

  • The lack of systematic research and cross-domain innovation in the digitalization of traditional oriental folk art. The insufficient applications of AIGC technology in the field of oriental folk art patterns.

    Transformation of artistic style and innovative design of oriental folk patterns based on AIGC Technology—A case study of Zhuxian town new year paintings from China · 2026 · DOI

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