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An exploration into aesthetic association of product form
Creating a relevant and pleasing design aesthetic is a fundamental aim designers
endeavour to achieve. Perception of aesthetics takes place both during the design
process when the designer creates a form, and later, through the users’
interpretation of the form. Within the perception process, association plays a
significant role. This paper addresses the stage research results of our exploration
into the associative meanings of a product. By analysing the evaluation of a series of
top award winning designs, it was found that some associative meanings
(represented by descriptive words) are correlated, such as ‘pure-architecturalgeometrical’,
‘delicate-curvaceous-organic’ etc. By conducting a series of
workshops, both in the UK and China, we have been able to explore the extent to
which young designers are able to manipulate form, style and create an overall
perception of a positive aesthetic. One of the main outputs during the workshops
was to design a MP3 player with speaker units, styled in line with three topics of
aesthetic association: topic 1 – pure, architectural, geometrical and technical; topic 2 – curvaceous, organic, and fun; topic 3 – graceful, cheerful, and powerful. Three non-correlated associative descriptors were deliberately used in topic 3. Results suggest that young designers tend to differ in their ability and success of manipulating form to match different aesthetic targets. When the descriptive words in one aesthetic topic are correlated, student designers seem to find it easier to manipulate the form matching the topic. Comparative analysis between the results from the workshops in the UK (Southampton Solent University) and in China
(Tsinghua University) is also presented in the paper
Image processing for plastic surgery planning
This thesis presents some image processing tools for plastic surgery planning. In particular,
it presents a novel method that combines local and global context in a probabilistic
relaxation framework to identify cephalometric landmarks used in Maxillofacial plastic
surgery. It also uses a method that utilises global and local symmetry to identify abnormalities
in CT frontal images of the human body. The proposed methodologies are
evaluated with the help of several clinical data supplied by collaborating plastic surgeons
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