Beauty in Efficiency

2016 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Odette da Silva ◽  
Nathan Crilly ◽  
Paul Hekkert
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Design ◽  
Experimental Evidence ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Consumer Products ◽  
Maximum Effect ◽  
Aesthetic Appreciation ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Principle Of Maximum

Theory and discourse suggest that the aesthetic appreciation of a wide range of artifacts—including works of art and consumer products—is partially governed by the principle of maximum effect for minimum means. We conducted two studies to find experimental evidence of this principle in the context of product design. In Study 1, we tested the hypothesis that the aesthetic appreciation of a product would be positively affected by the perception of the product as the minimum means achieving the maximum effect. Encouraged by the results of this study, we conducted Study 2 to test again the principle of maximum effect for minimum means using a more controlled experimental design. Our findings provide support for our hypothesis, indicating that the aesthetic appreciation of a product depends, to some extent, on the perception that the product achieves more than other products from its category by making an efficient use of resources.

scholarly journals Maximum Effect for Minimum Means: The Aesthetics of Efficiency

Design Issues ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Odette da Silva ◽  
Nathan Crilly ◽  
Paul Hekkert
Keyword(s):  
Design Theory ◽  
Sensory Properties ◽  
Aesthetic Judgment ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Maximum Effect ◽  
Aesthetic Appreciation ◽  
Effect Relationship ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Principle Of Maximum ◽  
The Way

The aesthetic judgment of an artifact is usually interpreted as an assessment of the artifact's sensory properties. But an artifact can also be appreciated, and still aesthetically, for the way it fulfills its purpose. Existing design theory does not provide the concepts required for describing this aspect of aesthetic appreciation and so cannot fully explain what people mean when they say a product is beautiful. In this paper, we develop an understanding of the aesthetic judgment based on the principle of maximum effect for minimum means. We explain how a means–effect relationship can be established between a product and its purpose or effect, and how the product and the effect can be perceived to be minimal and maximal. We also explain how the appreciation of this relationship depends on a set of assumed alternatives for both the product or means and the effect. Finally, we provide some directions for future research into design aesthetics.

scholarly journals Optimization of Cultural and Creative Product Design Based on Simulated Annealing Algorithm

Complexity ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Xianzhe Meng
Keyword(s):  
Simulated Annealing ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Simulated Annealing Algorithm ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Application Process ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Development And Utilization ◽  
Annealing Algorithm ◽  
Creative Products ◽  
The Aesthetic

This paper introduces the basic principle and application process of simulated annealing algorithm and improves the simulated annealing algorithm so that it can converge faster to get the new parameters of cultural and creative product design and make it more in line with the reality of engineering optimization. In the cultural creative industry, it is necessary to use the creatorʼs creativity and technology to derive and develop the original cultural resources with the help of various materialization means, to refine the abstract and profound contents of cultural resources to make them more visualized, and to produce products with both spiritual and economic values through the multiple development and utilization of their intellectual property contents. By studying the feasibility analysis of the cultural and creative design, the design positioning of the cultural and creative products is determined. In this article, we use the simulated annealing method to simulate and analyse the condition values in the design process of cultural creative products. As the Internet era progresses, people have more diversified requirements for cultural and creative products, and they need to have innovative ideas to follow the trend, so the design of cultural and creative products can spread culture through different design expressions and media. As one of the important pillar industries for future development, cultural and creative products are characterized by a wide range of styles and practicality, which meet the aesthetic needs and fashion trends of modern people.

scholarly journals A New Design and Development Framework for Better Aesthetic Appearance for Consumers Products

2021 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 262-273
Author(s):  
Mohd Qadafie Ibrahim ◽  
Fairuz Izzuddin Romli ◽  
Hassan Alli ◽  
Eris Elianddy Supeni ◽  
Hambali Arep
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Consumer Products ◽  
Design And Development ◽  
Form And Function ◽  
Design Engineers ◽  
Development Framework ◽  
Aesthetic Appearance ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
The Aesthetic

One of the primary issues with many product design and development processes today is having a good balance between the elements of form and function. While all products must be able to perform their intended functions, considerations of aesthetic features are also necessary for them to be accepted as a good quality design. However, most available design and development processes of consumer products have been more focused on achieving the functional aspects and have tended to treat the aesthetic aspects as less crucial features. This approach has led to many failed functional products in the market, as their physical design lacks appealing factors to targeted users. To improve the situation, a new product design and development framework is proposed in this study to better facilitate designers or engineers in creating an all-rounded quality product design. This new method is developed based on the findings from a survey conducted among engineering students, who are future product design engineers, in order to identify and also resolve issues with the current methods that they typically apply for their design tasks. All in all, the new proposed method is fundamentally tailored to offer a structured guide for developing beautiful and useful products based on a semantic design approach.

Welsh Romanticism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary-Ann Constantine
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Cultural Nationalism ◽  
Aesthetic Appreciation ◽  
Cultural And Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Romantic Era ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Areas Of Interest ◽  
The French Revolution

Welsh Romanticism in its broadest sense can be taken to encompass a set of interconnected ideas which emerge from the study of a wide range of texts, images, and practices produced in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, within Wales or by Welsh-born authors living elsewhere, but also by writers from outside Wales who engaged in significant ways with Wales or Welsh culture. This article aims to show how the notion of Welsh Romanticism, like that of Romanticism more generally, has altered over the last 50 years, expanding its areas of interest and embracing greater generic, cultural, and linguistic diversity. It locates Wales within some of the key movements of Romantic-era Europe, including responses to the French Revolution, cultural nationalism, antiquarianism, and the aesthetic appreciation of landscape.

scholarly journals Information and information resources in COVID-19: Awareness, control, and prevention

2021 ◽  
pp. 096100062110165
Author(s):  
Mohammadhiwa Abdekhoda ◽  
Fatemeh Ranjbaran ◽  
Asghar Sattari
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
Information Resources ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Strategic Approach ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Data Collection Instrument ◽  
Control And Prevention ◽  
And Gender ◽  
And Control

This study was conducted with the aim of evaluating the role of information and information resources in the awareness, control, and prevention of COVID-19. This study was a descriptive-analytical survey in which 450 participants were selected for the study. The data collection instrument was a researcher-made questionnaire. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data through SPSS. The findings show that a wide range of mass media has become well known as information resources for COVID-19. Other findings indicate a significant statistical difference in the rate of using information resources during COVID-19 based on age and gender; however, this difference is not significant regarding the reliability of information resources with regard to age and gender. Health information has an undisputable role in the prevention and control of pandemic diseases such as COVID-19. Providing accurate, reliable, and evidence-based information in a timely manner for the use of resources and information channels related to COVID-19 can be a fast and low-cost strategic approach in confronting this disease.

scholarly journals Preparation of Silver Nanoparticles and Their Industrial and Biomedical Applications: A Comprehensive Review

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adnan Haider ◽  
Inn-Kyu Kang
Keyword(s):  
Silver Nanoparticles ◽  
Biomedical Applications ◽  
Consumer Products ◽  
Ag Nps ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
Governing Factor ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Microbial Proliferation ◽  
Synthetic Routes ◽  
Biomedical Fields

Silver nanoparticles (Ag-NPs) have diverted the attention of the scientific community and industrialist itself due to their wide range of applications in industry for the preparation of consumer products and highly accepted application in biomedical fields (especially their efficacy against microbes, anti-inflammatory effects, and wound healing ability). The governing factor for their potent efficacy against microbes is considered to be the various mechanisms enabling it to prevent microbial proliferation and their infections. Furthermore a number of new techniques have been developed to synthesize Ag-NPs with controlled size and geometry. In this review, various synthetic routes adapted for the preparation of the Ag-NPs, the mechanisms involved in its antimicrobial activity, its importance/application in commercial as well as biomedical fields, and possible application in future have been discussed in detail.

BIOASSAY OF ANTIGONADOTROPHIC SERA

1970 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 150-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Petrusz ◽  
C. Robyn ◽  
E. Diczfalusy ◽  
D. J. Finney
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Evidence ◽  
Bioassay Method ◽  
Wide Range

ABSTRACT Experimental evidence is presented indicating that the principle of additivity between gonadotrophic and antigonadotrophic activities which forms the basis of the previously proposed bioassay method for antigonadotrophic sera (Robyn et al. 1968) is valid for a wide range of hormone:antiserum ratios. From knowledge of the antigonadotrophic potency of an antiserum, it is possible to select an amount of antiserum which will completely neutralize a given gonadotrophic activity.

Environmental Analysis of Consumer Products During the Conceptual Phase of Product Design

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matt R. Bohm ◽  
Karl R. Haapala ◽  
Kerry Poppa ◽  
Robert B. Stone ◽  
Irem Y. Tumer
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Life Cycle Analysis ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Consumer Products ◽  
Design Knowledge ◽  
Concept Generation ◽  
Analysis Techniques ◽  
Research Show

This paper describes efforts taken to further transition life cycle analysis techniques from the latter, more detailed phases of design, to the early-on conceptual phase of product development. By using modern design methodologies such as automated concept generation and an archive of product design knowledge, known as the Design Repository, virtual concepts are created and specified. Streamlined life cycle analysis techniques are then used to determine the environmental impacts of the virtual concepts. As a means to benchmark the virtual results, analogous real-life products that have functional and component similarities are identified. The identified products are then scrutinized to determine their material composition and manufacturing attributes in order to perform an additional round of life cycle analysis for the actual products. The results of this research show that enough information exists within the conceptual phase of design (utilizing the Design Repository) to reasonably predict the relative environmental impacts of actual products based on virtual concepts.

STATE AND PROSPECTS OF PROCESSING OF SECONDARY RAW MATERIALS OF WINE-MAKING IN UKRAINE

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Osipova ◽  
O. Radionova ◽  
L. Tkachenko ◽  
T. Abramova
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Animal Feed ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Acid Soil ◽  
Biologically Active ◽  
Limiting Factor ◽  
Wine Making ◽  
Secondary Raw Materials ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Wide Range

The analysis of the current state of processing of secondary raw materials of wine-making in Ukraine is given. It is proved that the latter is a rich source of biologically active compounds, including phenolic ones, which makes it possible to use it for the production of a wide range of products (raccoon, polyphenol extracts, tartaric acid, beverages, fertilizers, grape oil, cake, vitamin D, animal feed, food powder, abrasives) with high consumer value for various industries: food, pharmaceutical, perfume and cosmetics, chemical, feed, etc. In the light of modern research, the role of phenolic compounds as essential nutrition factors that cannot remain out of the field of view of physiologists, pharmacologists, and food hygiene specialists is shown. However, currently in Ukraine there are no specialized enterprises for complex processing of secondary raw materials of winemaking; traditional technologies are not effective from a technological, economic and environmental point of view, which indicates not rational use of resources and loss of material resources; there are no systematic studies on physical and chemical, microbiological, Toxicological composition in order to determine the optimal direction of its use. A limiting factor is also the lack of comparative analysis of innovative domestic and foreign technologies for processing secondary raw materials of winemaking. In the vast majority of cases, in particular, combs and pomace are taken out of control to agricultural land without special treatment, which leads to acid soil erosion and pollution of the environment with metabolites of micromycetes, increasing one of the global problems of mankind-environmental. At the present stage of technological development, there are a number of innovative developments in the field of processing secondary raw materials, in particular grape pomace, in order to obtain biologically active additives, the limiting factor for the introduction of which is the lack of domestic and expensive imported equipment. A promising way to solve the existing problems is to create a mechanism that will unite the interests of wineries (producers of secondary raw materials of winemaking), processing enterprises (producers of products from secondary raw materials of winemaking), scientists and potential consumers of innovative products. Consolidation of the above-mentioned institutions and enterprises is possible by creating clusters for the development and implementation of innovative technologies and equipment

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