Thank you all for your suggestions. Dave's (and Graham) reply is the one I agree the most with. If I have well understood your replies, aesthetics is usually confused with beauty.
I think that beauty is a property of the object and linked more to the cultural context, while aesthetics is the feeling of the observer and proper of the user. Finally, beauty is limited to the visual perception (or to a single modality), while aesthetics is the results of different perception modalities, mixed together with sensations, feelings, memories... >From this point of view it becomes very challenging for us to understand how this mix of information could be transferred by a system to the user. ciao, M(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=44186 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
