Another Darwinian Aesthetics

Darwinian Aesthetics Informs Traditional Aesthetics

Another Look at a Model for Evaluating Interface Aesthetics

Gestalt psychologists promulgated the principles of visual organisation in the early twentieth century. These principles have been discussed and re-emphasised, and their importance and relevance to user interface design is understood. However, a limited number of systems represent and make adequate use of this knowledge in the form of a design tool that supports certain aspects of the user inte...

Another Meaning of Darwinian Feminism: toward Inclusive Evolutionary Accounts of Sexual Orientations

This letter argues for an understanding of Darwinian feminism that is rooted in the contemporary intersectional feminist theorizing that seeks to represent historically marginalized groups in an inclusive, non-marginalized manner. To this end, a feminist approach to sexual orientation is presented and detailed, with a historical example of such an approach that already existed within behavioral...

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 Networks

We suggest Darwinian networks (DNs) as a simplification of working with Bayesian networks (BNs). DNs adapt a handful of wellknown concepts in biology into a single framework that is surprisingly simple, yet remarkably robust. With respect to modeling, on one hand, DNs not only represent BNs, but also faithfully represent the testing of independencies in a more straightforward fashion. On the ot...