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Although creating AI-generated art is still a process of trial and error, the future of AI painting is unstoppable. For exploring the differences in the aesthetic perceptions of the general audience towards the popular NFT avatars, this study investigated the popular avatars on the Opensea platform and collated the four major NFT avatars (PFPs) and their corresponding 12 aesthetic attributes through this study. The results show that although most of the audience are not familiar with NFT avatars, most of them agree with their expectations on the aesthetic attributes of NFT avatars, and that NFT avatars are only a change in form compared to traditional artworks, but the aesthetics of the art itself remains unchanged. The results of this study provide a new insight to the design of the visual style of the NFT avatars, or the aesthetic perceptions of the audience and the preference factors for their work.
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Chen, B. (2023). Viewer’s Perceptual Difference in NFT Aesthetics – A Case Study of Popular NFT Avatars (PFPs) at the Opensea. In: Rau, PL.P. (eds) Cross-Cultural Design. HCII 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14024. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35946-0_2
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