How do exhibition visitors describe aesthetic qualities?

Bente Dahl Thomsen, Anders Peter Ravn

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Abstract

In this investigation, visitors to an art and design exhibition have used an interactive computer program to express the qualities they consider important for an art or design object (artefact). They have then used the program with their individually selected qualities to assess the artefacts. In this article, we present the experiment and its results. They indicate that with such a setting it is relatively easy to reach a degree of consensus about criteria. Such an interactive program can therefore be very useful, for instance when choosing among design proposals or when selecting artefacts for exhibitions, because they make the assessments open to a larger audience such that their basis can be discussed.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInternational Conference on Computing, Communications and Control Technologies  CCCT 2007 : Interactive Communication Design of Information Systems
Number of pages6
VolumeIII
PublisherInternational Institute of Informatics and Cybernetics
Publication date2007
Edition1
Pages155-160
ISBN (Print)978-1-934272-10-7
Publication statusPublished - 2007
EventThe 4th International Conference on Cybernetics and Information Technologies, Systems and Applications jointly with The 5th International Conference on Computing, Communications and Control Technologies. - 2007. - S. Vol. III - Orlando, Florida, United States
Duration: 12 Jul 200715 Jul 2007
Conference number: 5

Conference

ConferenceThe 4th International Conference on Cybernetics and Information Technologies, Systems and Applications jointly with The 5th International Conference on Computing, Communications and Control Technologies. - 2007. - S. Vol. III
Number5
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityOrlando, Florida,
Period12/07/200715/07/2007
SeriesThe CCCT07

Keywords

  • aesthetic quality,
  • methodical evaluation,
  • artefact
  • Baumgarten’s reflections

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