New energy landscape architecture is a new building integrated with aesthetics and art design, which can meet people's dual needs of low consumption architectural aesthetics. In recent years, the development speed increasing, design research has become hot spot. The values, aesthetics, technology concepts will always stimulate promote urban to constantly enrich itself. Therefore, it exploration...

Experiences of art involve exercise of ordinary cognitive and perceptual capacities but in unique ways. These two features of experiences of art imply the mutual importance of aesthetics and cognitive science. Cognitive science provides empirical and theoretical analysis of the relevant cognitive capacities. Aesthetics thus does well to incorporate cognitive scientific research. And aesthetics ...

A large class of diagrams can be informally characterized as node – link diagrams. Typically nodes represent entities, and links represent relationships between them. The discipline of graph drawing is concerned with methods for drawing abstract versions of such diagrams. At the foundation of the discipline are a set of graph aesthetics (rules for graph layout) that, it is assumed, will produce...

We describe the iterative design of LillyPad, a mobile PDA application for gathering data and supporting scientific inquiry activities intended to be used by scientists and students to assess and learn about environmental restoration sites. We show how a greater concern for the appearance of the interface in a subsequent iteration enhanced the way it was used, its usefulness and the overall use...

Although the development of computational aesthetics has largely concentrated on 3D geometry and illustrative rendering, aesthetics are equally an important principle underlying 2D graphics and information visualization. A canonical example is Beck’s design of the London underground map, which not only produced an informative and practical artefact, but also established a design aesthetic that ...