Theoretical 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

Web-Store Aesthetics in E- Retailing: A Conceptual Framework and Some Theoretical Implications

Noam Tractinsky is a Senior Lecturer of Information Systems Engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel, tel. +972 8 647 2226, [email protected]. Oded Lowengart is a Senior Lecturer of Marketing, Department of Business Administration, School of Management, BenGurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel, tel +972 8 647 2447, [email protected]. The authors...

Engineering aesthetics and aesthetic ergonomics: theoretical foundations and a dual-process research methodology.

Although industrial and product designers are keenly aware of the importance of design aesthetics, they make aesthetic design decisions largely on the basis of their intuitive judgments and "educated guesses". Whilst ergonomics and human factors researchers have made great contributions to the safety, productivity, ease-of-use, and comfort of human-machine-environment systems, aesthetics is lar...

[ ] 1 Aesthetics

There is perhaps no more vexing, fraught, and neglected concept in the study of children's literature than aesthetics. No doubt the neglect of a serious, theoretical inquiry into the aesthetics of children's literature stems from our contemporary understandings of the discipline of children's literature itself. The study of children's literature has, historically, been the work of librarians an...