As a cognitive scientist and designer, Claudia Muth researched and taught at the University of Bamberg from 2011 to 2022 and directed the Nuremberg Hands-on Museum Tower of the Senses between 2011 and 2013. After a substitute professorship in the psychology of design at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle, she has been Professor of Applied Design Sciences at Hof University of Applied Sciences since 2023.
Research interests
Gestalt, Ordnung, Habitus - Perceptual Structures and their Dynamic Organisation / Experiential Qualities of Semantic Instability and the Aesthetic Aha / Cognitive Science Perspectives on Design with a Focus on Embodied and Situated Knowledge / Possibilities of Design Research
Career
Since 2023: Professorship for Applied Design Sciences at the Hof University of Applied Sciences / 2022-2023: Substitute professorship for Psychology of Design at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle / 2023: Habilitation in Psychology at the University of Bamberg / 2021: M.A. in Information Design at the University of Applied Sciences Würzburg / 2015: PhD in Psychology at the University of Bamberg / 2011: M.Sc. in Cognitive Science at the University of Vienna / 2007: B.A. Cultural Design at the University of Applied Sciences Schwäbisch Hall.
Muth, C., & Carbon, C. C. (accepted). Predicting instabilities. An embodied perspective on unstable experiences with art and design. Philosophical Transactions B.
Muth, C. & Carbon, C. C. (2022). Ambivalence of artistic photographs stimulates interest and the motivation to engage. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1037/aca0000448
Muth, C., Westphal-Fitch, G., & Carbon, C. C. (2021). Seeking (dis)order. Ordering appeals but slight disorder and complex order trigger interest. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 15(3), 439–457. doi: 10.1037/aca0000284
Kölz, I., Muth, C., & Singiridis, L. (2021). Codes und Informationsdesign: Ein kollaboratives Schreibgespräch. Kuckuck – Notizen zur Alltagskultur, 1.
Muth, C., Briesen, J., & Carbon, C. C. (2020). ‘I like how it looks but it is not beautiful’. Sensory appeal beyond beauty. Poetics, 79. doi: 10.1016/j.poetic.2019.101376
Muth, C. & Carbon, C. C. (2019). When Art Is Not Mastered but Creates Insights. Shifting In and Out of Semantic Instability. Art & Perception, 7, 123-136. doi: 10.1163/22134913-20191118
Muth, C., Ebert, S., Marković, S., & Carbon, C. C. (2019). “Aha”ptics: Enjoying an Aesthetic Aha during haptic exploration. Perception, 48(1). doi: 10.1177/0301006618818014
Muth, C., Hesslinger, V. M., & Carbon, C. C. (2018). Variants of semantic instability (SeIns) in the arts: A classification study based on experiential reports. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 12(1), 11-23. doi: 10.1037/aca0000113
Muth, C., Albrecht, S., & Carbon, C. C. (2017). Affect and self-efficacy infuse the experience of ambivalent photographs.Psihologija, 50(3), 307-317.
Raab, M., Carbon, C. C., & Muth, C. (2017). Am Anfang war die Verschwörungstheorie. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. doi: 10.1007/978-3-662-53883-8
Muth, C., Raab, M. H., & Carbon, C. C. (2017). Expecting the Unexpected: How Gallery Visitors Experience Semantic Instability in Art. Art & Perception,5(2), 1-22. doi: 10.1163/22134913-00002062
Muth, C., Raab, M. H., & Carbon, C. C. (2016). Semantic stability is more pleasurable in unstable episodic contexts. On the relevance of perceptual challenge in art appreciation. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 10(43). doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2016.00043
Muth, C., & Carbon, C. C. (2016). SeIns: Semantic Instability in Art. Art & Perception, 4(1-2), 145-184. doi: 10.1163/22134913-00002049
Muth, C., Hesslinger, V., & Carbon, C. C. (2015). The appeal of challenge in the perception of art: How ambiguity, solvability of ambiguity and the opportunity for insight affect appreciation. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 9(3), 206-216. doi: 10.1037/a0038814
Muth, C., Raab, M. H. and Carbon, C. C. (2015). The stream of experience when watching artistic movies. Dynamic aesthetic effects revealed by the continuous evaluation procedure (CEP). Frontiers in Psychology 6(365). doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00365
Raab, M. H., Muth, C., & Carbon, C. C. (2013). M5oX: Methoden zur multidimensionalen und dynamischen Erfassung des Nutzererlebens. In S. Boll- Westermann, S. Maaß & R. Malaka (Eds.), Workshopband Mensch & Computer 2013 (pp. 155-164). München: Oldenburg Verlag.
Muth, C., Pepperell, R., & Carbon, C. C. (2013). Give me gestalt! Preference for cubist artworks revealing high detectability of objects. Leonardo, 46(5), 488-489.
Muth C., Carbon, C. C. (2013). The Aesthetic Aha: On the pleasure of having insights into Gestalt. Acta Psychologica, 144(1), 25-30.
Faculty of Interdisciplinary and Innovative Sciences / Communication Design