Many existing automatic graph layout algorithms are unrelated to any particular semantic domain. Designers of such algorithms tend to conform to layout aesthetics, and claim that by doing so, the resultant diagram is easy to understand. Few algorithms are designed for a specific domain, and there is no guarantee that the aesthetics used for generic layout algorithms will be useful for the visua...

The field of neuroaesthetics has gained in popularity in recent years but also attracted criticism from the perspectives both of the humanities and the sciences. In an effort to consolidate research in the field, we characterize neuroaesthetics as the cognitive neuroscience of aesthetic experience, drawing on long traditions of research in empirical aesthetics, on the one hand, and cognitive ne...

Online stores spring up everywhere and their store display changes more agilely than the brick-andmortar ones. The webpage aesthetics in online stores, similar to in-store atmospherics in brick-andmortar stores, are significant to consumer impulse buying, yet has received very limited attention from researchers. This paper reports three empirical studies that examine how webpage aesthetic compo...

An experiment was conducted to test the relationships between users' perceptions of a computerized system's beauty and usability. The experiment used a computerized application as a surrogate for an Automated Teller Machine (ATM). Perceptions were elicited before and after the participants used the system. Pre-experimental measures indicate strong correlations between system's perceived aesthet...

With the rapid penetration of digital interfaces into all aspects of everyday life, the need for understanding the aesthetic aspects of interaction between humans and computers has come into focus. Various positions suggest that aesthetics offers IT design and research an enhanced analytical foundation going beyond the traditional use-oriented principles of HCI and usability. However, this new ...

For nearly a quarter of Darwin’s Descent of Man (1871), it is the singing bird whose voice presages the development of human aesthetics. But since the 1950s, aesthetics has had a perilous and contested role in the study of birdsong. Modern ornithology’s disillusionment with aesthetic knowledge after World War II brought about the removal of musical studies of birdsong, studies which were replac...

Culturally influenced preferences in website aesthetics is a topic often neglected by scholars in human–computer interaction. Kim, Lee, and Choi (2003) identified aesthetic design factors of web home pages that elicited particular responses in South Korean web users based on 13 secondary emotional dimensions. This study extends 10 Kim et al.’s work to U.S. participants, comparing the original S...

F i r s c h e i n e t a l . [ 1 ] d e s c r i b e some p r o d u c t s t h a t can b e expected t o r e s u l t from r e s e a r c h i n a r t i f i c i a l i n t e l l i g e n c e . One o f these p r o d u c t s i s " c r e a t i o n and v a l u a t i o n systems" which they d e s c r i b e as computer systems "capable of c r e a t i v e work i n such areas a s music, a r t ( p a i n t i n g ,...

Information Visualization (2002) 1, 93 – 94. doi:10.1057/palgrave.ivs.9500018 This is the second issue of our young journal. This issue continues what we started in the first issue – to provide an interdisciplinary forum for the field of information visualization. To shape the interdisciplinary forum, we continue to seek original and stimulating articles on a variety of topics that in one way o...

An exploration of culling and the role it plays in the creation and care of uniquebeings. In traditional selective breeding, the living things that do not support the project areculled, or killed, so that resources may be put toward the specimens exhibiting the proper traits.This is regularly practiced by farmers, pet breeders, fanciers and hobbyists, but rarely by artists.