Aesthetics exists at so many different levels of perception & experience. No denying that visual is the most powerful part of aesthetic response, but even then how we respond emotionally to a situation will change our cognitive responses of everything contextually related to that situation and thus will have AN effect (which is the core of Norman's thesis).
I have gone a bit further with this. Building off of the Kenetic Aesthetics thinks who look at how the movements we make create an aesthetic response. Motion and which motions we ask a user to do in a design has a response and can elicit of a feeling of beauty. I strongly came to this after play capoeira (an Afro-Brazilian martial art) for some time. I started to notice that as I improved that the motions that felt best often were the right moves at that time. So the feeling engendered in the motion effected my perception of success. You can take this now to the gesture level (even gestures with a mouse) and compare the response of doing a simple click to center a map vs. dragging the clipped imagery of a map to the point you want it. There is more than just motion at play here, but it is definitely a more satisfying motion, but by Fitz Law it might actually be counter intuitive and definitely less efficient (except that I get direct exact placement). I think that my talk at From Business to Buttons may address some of this (http://businesstobuttons.com/ has the vids or from my blog. Lots of other great vids from that conference as well.) I'll just add that you asked this from the point of view of HCI, which I find interesting. Is there a reason why you said HCI instead of IxD? Are these in this context meant as synonyms? If so, then I would say that you can't design without addressing all manners of aesthetics in a system. Heck we barely ever touch on audio aesthetics in our community and this is a HUGE part of the immersive experience, and HUGE part of haptic feedback making systems perform better. -- dave -- dave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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 ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
