Hospitality and aesthetics

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...

Hospitality and IT

" Der Mensch ist jenes Nicht-bleiben-können und doch nicht von der Stelle Können." (Martin Heidegger) "Den klara himlen har ställt sig på lut mot väggen. det är som en bön till det tomma. Och det tomma vänder sitt ansikte till oss och viskar ' Jag är inte tom, jag är öppen'"

Cornell Hospitality

As a method of determining what types of social media messages work best for hospitality firms, this study examined what types of messages gained the most clicks of “Like” and comments on Facebook. An analysis of the number of likes and comments regarding nine hundred and eighty-two Facebook messages from ten restaurant chains and two independent operators revealed clear patterns. The more popu...

Mobile HCI and Hospitality

We present the hospitality industry as a special retail environment that could have a great benefit from effective use of mobile technology. In this context, we discuss opportunities and challenges for the design of mobile hospitality applications. We illustrate these issues by presenting an example application that provides digital concierge services augmented with a social network to hotel gu...

Darwinian Aesthetics Informs Traditional Aesthetics