Aesthetics and Class Interests

Aesthetics of Class Diagrams

Visualization of object-oriented programs by class diagrams is a widely used technique. So far no commonly agreed aesthetic criteria have been recorded in order to standardize and measure the quality of class diagrams. In this paper we focus on UML class diagrams, the standard notation for class diagrams in software engineering. We propose some aesthetic criteria which reflect the highly sophis...

Working-Class Power, Capitalist-Class Interests, and Class Compromise1

This article proposes a general theoretical framework for understanding the concept of “class compromise” in terms of a “reverseJ” model of the relationship between the associational power of workers and the interests of capitalists: increases in working-class power adversely affect capitalist-class interests until such power crosses some intermediate threshold beyond which further increases in...

Aesthetics and automatic layout of UML class diagrams

node naming function, 121abstract window toolkit, see AWTacyclic graph, 29API, 260application initializer plug-in, 305application library, 284application programming interface, see APIassociation class, 202, 236association classifier, 14, 205automatic documentation, 27AWT, 303 BDP, 156bend, 54, 137, 233bipartite crossing numbers, 163bipartite ...

Engineering Aesthetics and Ergo-Aesthetics:

Human factors researchers and practitioners have been focusing research attention on the easeof-use, productivity, safety, comfort, and effectiveness aspects of product and system design. This article argues that it is time that we add another important dimension to the fields of human factors research and practice—the aesthetic dimension. This article discusses the need for the establishment o...

Darwinian Aesthetics Informs Traditional Aesthetics