N. Tractinsky, AS Katz, and D. Ikar. What is beautiful is usable. Interacting with Computers, 13(2):127–145, 2000.
This paper presents the result of their quantitative research on the correlation between aesthetics and usability.
They test 9 different ATM screen layouts (3 level of aesthetics – 2 level of usability) with +130 subjects. They asked 3 questions before [...]
Tag Archives: Aesthetics
What is beautiful is usable
Grid Systems in Graphic Design by Joseph Muller-Brockmann
Joseph Muller-Brockmann (b.1914) was a Swiss graphic designer.
His book “Grid systems in graphic design” written for graphic designers who operate 2D dimensions (of course this book deals with 3D spaces, e.g. exhibition). This book aims at helping practical working – handling visual problems and solving them in terms of conception, organization, and design with greater [...]
Chris Jordan pictures some shocking stats
http://www.ted.com/talks/chris_jordan_pictures_some_shocking_stats.html
http://benfry.com/writing/archives/277
A TED talk in 2008. The speaker is a photographer who works on a macro-scale of everyday objects. For example, he stacks millions of plastic cups, makes an abstract images. Hopefully looking at this beautiful and shocking images would trigger any emotional reaction when viewers face at plastic cups?
Measuring Aesthetics
D. Filonik and D. Baur, “Measuring Aesthetics for Information Visualization,” Information Visualisation, 2009 13th International Conference, 2009, pp. 579-584.
For me, aesthetics is a very subjective domain. The authors agree with that when the aesthetics comes to psychology and industrial design. However, in this paper, their approach is employing logical and mathematical nature of aesthetics; the [...]
Informative art: using amplified artworks as information displays
J. Redström, T. Skog, and L. Hallnäs, “Informative art: using amplified artworks as information displays,” Proceedings of DARE 2000 on Designing augmented reality environments, Elsinore, Denmark: ACM, 2000, pp. 103-114.
This 2000 paper shows a way of leverage of art and information visualization. They did not explicitly stated that Informative Art was more superior in terms [...]
A taxonomy of ambient information systems: four patterns of design
Z. Pousman and J. Stasko, “A taxonomy of ambient information systems: four patterns of design,” Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces, Venezia, Italy: ACM, 2006, pp. 67-74.
This 2006 conference paper discusses a taxonomy of ambient information system, which is one sub-area of InfoVis research. This paper starts with the extensive survey on [...]
Aesthetic information collages: generating decorative displays that contain information
J. Fogarty, J. Forlizzi, and S.E. Hudson,“Aesthetic information collages: generating decorative displays that contain information,” Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology, Orlando, Florida: ACM, 2001, pp. 141-150.
www.cs.washington.edu/homes/jfogarty/publications/uist2001.pdf
This 2001 conference article is one of the many examples that explains engineers’ views on aesthetics in Information Visualization. Their view [...]