Visual aesthetics and human preference.

The Development of a Tool for the Preference Assessment of the Visual Aesthetics of an Object Using Interactive Genetic Algorithms

Interactive evolutionary algorithms (IEAs) have been proposed as creativity aids to designers with regard to visual aesthetics. Algorithms have been developed to expose the designer to new designs and thus spark imagination and improve creativity. The present paper focuses on utilizing interactive genetic algorithms (IGAs), a subset of IEAs, to understand the visual aesthetic preferences of the...

Aesthetics of Everyday Life

Aesthetics of everyday life is one of the branches of aesthetic knowledge. Until the 20th century, classical aesthetics focused on the subject of visual arts and paid less attention to the formation of fine arts in the context of human and nature’s daily life experience. During the last few decades, a movement emerged that, by avoiding that one-sided art-oriented approach, tried to create a clo...

Grounding Aesthetic Preference in the Bodily Conditions of Meaning Constitution Towards an Enactive Approach

a bstr act Mark Johnson’s work The Meaning of the Body presents John Dewey’s pragmatism and pragmatist aesthetics as the forerunners of the anti­ Cartesian embodied enactive approach to human experience and meaning. He rejects the Kantian noncognitive character of aesthetics and emphasizes that aesthetics is the study of the human capacity to experience the bodily conditions of meaning constitu...

The relationship between visual interface aesthetics, task performance, and preference

Quantifying beauty: an information system for evaluating universal aesthetics

In this paper we propose that a metaphor can be used to represent domains that are not easily quantifiable and thus can be used to communicate information about those domains between the human and the computer at a cognitive and visual level. We propose a model which uses the metaphor of a human face as an interface for the perception and evaluation of universal aesthetics. 1. The problem It is...

Objective aesthetics in rural rugs with Mikel Dufrenne's approach ( Case study: Yelmeh and Minakhani designs)

Aesthetics is one of the important topics in the evaluation of works of art and can be examined from two aspects, objective and subjective. Rural and Tribal ruges in Iran are the result of the taste and mental creativity of weavers and designers who, despite being mentally woven, have a lot of harmony. The purpose of this study is to analyze the visual aesthetics of such carpets and due to thei...