Middleway aesthetics: an aesthetical way to say nothing about 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...

Darwinian Aesthetics Informs Traditional Aesthetics

Say Cheese: Personal Photography Layout Recommendation Using 3D Aesthetics Estimation

Many people fail to take exquisite pictures in a beautiful scenery for the lack of professional photography knowledge. In this paper, we focus on how to aid people to master daily life photography using a computational layout recommendation method. Given a selected scene, we first generate several synthetic photos with different layouts using 3D estimation. Then we employ a 3D layout aesthetic ...

What We Talk About When We Talk About Game Aesthetics

Digital games are commonly described as phenomena that combine aesthetic, social and technological elements, yet our understanding of the aesthetic element of games and play is perhaps the least developed of all. All too often, an aesthetics perspective within game studies and design discourses is relegated to a marginal role, by conflating game aesthetics with graphics and “eye candy,” or by l...

“Curating” the JCP special issue on aesthetics in consumer psychology: An introduction to the aesthetics issue

This is the age of Aesthetics, Beauty, and Design. Newly available product innovations from the Apple i-phone to the latest Dyson vacuum reflect aesthetic values. Indeed, Apple's success has been attributed to the infusion of aesthetics into product design. This model of product creation has resulted in Apple becoming one of the largest and most profitable corporations in the United States. Acc...