In addition, since the aesthetic impression begins within the first few milliseconds of perception, and consists in large part of the user’s ability to identify the designer’s attention to detail, there is a lack of well-defined measures that can be applied in evaluation of the aesthetic function.
https://journal.lib.uoguelph.ca/index.php/perj/article/view/193/377
Confidence, Visual Research, and the Aesthetic Function The goal of this article is to identify and describe one of the primary purposes of aesthetic quality in the design of computer interfaces and visualization tools.
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In its more technically epistemological perspective, it is defined as the study of subjective and sensori-emotional values, sometimes called judgements of sentiment and taste. More broadly, scholars in the field define aesthetics as critical reflection on art, culture and nature.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesthetics
Aesthetics (/ɛsˈθɛtɪks/ or /iːsˈθɛtɪks/; also spelled æsthetics and esthetics) is a branch of philosophy that explores the nature of art, beauty, and taste, with the creation and appreciation of beauty.[1][2]
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A primary component of the aesthetic function is therefore to inspire confidence, which results for visualization research in a number of advantages to the researcher, the participant in the research (or eventually the user of the system), and the larger community that receives and assesses the results.
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That is, it doesn’t refer to the grosser acts of accomplishing a task. Instead, the aesthetic function is to provide the viewer, or in the case of visualization research the experimental participant, with implicit associations to the notions of quality and attention to detail.
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The word aesthetic is derived from the Greek αἰσθητικός (aisthetikos, meaning esthetic, sensitive, sentient, pertaining to sense perception), which in turn was derived from αἰσθάνομαι (aisthanomai, meaning I perceive, feel, sense and related to and αἴσθησις (aisthēsis, sensation).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesthetics
Aesthetics (/ ɛ s ˈ θ ɛ t ɪ k s / or / iː s ˈ θ ɛ t ɪ k s /; also spelled esthetics) is a branch of philosophy that explores the nature of art, beauty, and taste, with the creation and appreciation of beauty.
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We suggest that researchers in library and information science, computing science, and humanities computing can derive advantages in visual research by acknowledging – through their efforts to advance aesthetic quality – that a significant function of aesthetics in this context is to inspire the user’s confidence.
https://journal.lib.uoguelph.ca/index.php/perj/article/view/193/377
We suggest that humanists can derive advantages in visual research by acknowledging by their efforts to advance aesthetic quality that a significant function of aesthetics in this context is to inspire the user’s confidence. This confidence typically serves to create a sense of trust in the provider of the interface or tool.
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aesthetic function
The aesthetic function is to provide the viewer, or in the case of visualization research the experimental participant, with implicit associations to the notions of quality and attention to detail.