'AI and Art Appreciation – how AI can measure and encourage the appreciation of art' - supplementary material

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Authors: Paul Warren, Paul Mulholland
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The file responsesAndPrompts.zip contains material relating to the paper: 'AI and Art Appreciation – how AI can measure and encourage the appreciation of art', Warren, P., Mulholland, P. It contains four folders:initialAndFullTextphasedTextinitialPromptsfullPromptsinitialAndFullText contains two files:initialResponses.txt contains the responses to the first two questions: "What do you notice about the artwork? What are you thinking about the artwork?" and "How does the artwork make you feel?". The 138 sets of responses are separated by a line containingi "ID = ".fullResponses.txt contains the responses to the first two questions (as in initialResponses.txt) plus the responses to the two questions presented after the participant had listened to each of the four musical extracts. For each participant, the responses are concatenated onto one line, beginning with ID = phasedText contains five files: phase0.txt, phase1.txt, phase2.txt, phase3.txt, phase4.txt. The first of these contains each participant's response to the first two questions, i.e. prior to listening to the music. phase1.txt contains the responses to the two questions after the first musical extract, phase2.txt contains the responses to the two questions after the second musical extract, etc. In each case, the responses are on one line, beginning with "participant id>: ".N.B. The initial digit of the participant id refers to the artwork used: Portrait of a Man Anachorète endormi Festivities on the Coast The Hippopotamus and Crocodile HuntIf this digit is followed by A or N this indicates that the participant was unsupervised and the music was chosen by algorithm (A) or by expert (N). If the digit is followed by the letter S,this indicates that the participant was supervised. For more details, see 'Music and art – a study in cross-modal interpretation', Warren, P., Mulholland, P., Barker., N. https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.05101initialPrompts contains four text files with prompts for each of the four developmental models, as used with the initial, i.e. pre-music, responses.fullPrompts contains four text files with prompts for each of the four developmental models, as used with the full set of responses, i.e. pre-music and after each musical extract.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Aesthetic Perception and Analysis Art Technology and Culture Digital Media and Visual Art

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Open Research Online (The Open University)
Publication date
1 January 2026
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