Designing Motorcycles via the Web: Improved Aesthetics and Consumer Preference

The purpose of this research was to examine how manipulation of the aesthetic appeal of a motorcycle’s image on a web page might elucidate trends in consumer preference. To this end, website visitors were encouraged to reconfigure a blueprint of motorcycle to make it more appealing. These alterations to its confirmation were analyzed to identify patterns of preference that were then compared to the marketplace in general. It was observed that aesthetic preferences recognized by the design method were similar to trends within the motorcycle building/buying public

Quantifying aesthetics of visual design applied to automatic design

In today\u27s Instagram world, with advances in ubiquitous computing and access to social networks, digital media is adopted by art and culture. In this dissertation, we study what makes a good design by investigating mechanisms to bring aesthetics of design from realm of subjection to objection. These mechanisms are a combination of three main approaches: learning theories and principles of design by collaborating with professional designers, mathematically and statistically modeling good designs from large scale datasets, and crowdscourcing to model perceived aesthetics of designs from general public responses. We then apply the knowledge gained in automatic design creation tools to help non-designers in self-publishing, and designers in inspiration and creativity. Arguably, unlike visual arts where the main goals may be abstract, visual design is conceptualized and created to convey a message and communicate with audiences. Therefore, we develop a semantic design mining framework to automatically link the design elements, layout, color, typography, and photos to linguistic concepts. The inferred semantics are applied to a design expert system to leverage user interactions in order to create personalized designs via recommendation algorithms based on the user\u27s preferences

Interfaces gráficas em ambientes de E-learning: caso VIASK.

Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro Tecnológico. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia de ProduçãoO aumento da oferta de ambientes de e-learning no mercado tem levado a uma mudança de paradigmas no projeto de interfaces gráficas com o usuário e no projeto de ferramentas para apresentação do conteúdo digital. Dentro deste novo contexto, o maior desafio é criar interfaces gráficas interativas que apóiem a tarefa do usuário ao mesmo tempo que tenham estética agradável, sejam padronizadas de forma que todo o ambiente componha um conjunto coeso. Este trabalho aplicou uma metodologia de projeto de sistemas centrada no usuário para modelar as interfaces gráficas do ambiente de e-learning VIASK, esta metodologia foi escolhida por favorecer o desenvolvimento de interfaces com os requisitos desejados pelo mercado e indicados por pesquisas realizadas em outros ambientes de e-learning internacionais. Como resultado da pesquisa e do levantamento bibliográfico realizado obteve-se um manual de recomendações para o projeto de interfaces gráficas no desenvolvimento de ambientes de e-learning, que oferece subsídios para a construção de ambientes com qualidade