Exploring the question that underpins what we do

Exploring the question that underpins what we do

to overcome these challenges. The use of integral pier cap has been demonstrated economical and also aesthetically pleasing on number of bridge projects. These designs involved the concealing the massive pier cap within the superstructure limits by this creating a pier cap interface with the substructure

Purpose of present paper is to investigate whether aesthetically appealing products are associated with greater interest (tactual experience, flow and recall of product information) than products are not aesthetically appealing. Another purpose is to observe difference of influence to user interest

# The Author(s) 2014. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com Abstract The current studies examined the effect of aesthetic appeal on performance. According to one hypothesis, appeal would lead to overall decrements or enhancements in perfor-mance [e.g. Sonderegger &

due.de Crowdsourcing gives researchers the opportunity to collect subjective data quickly, in the real-world, and from a very diverse pool of users. In a long-term study on image aes-thetic appeal, we challenged the crowdsourced assessments with typical lab methodologies in order to identify

painting technique to create new and unexpected textures. By pouring layers of paint of different colors on a horizontal surface, the paints infiltrate into each other creating patterns of aesthetic value. In this investigation, we reproduce the tech-nique in a controlled manner. We found

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Glass is a magical material, adding comfort as well as beauty to our lives. It is available in the most wonderful diversity of colours and texures, is often something to behold in its own right even before being turned into a piece of Art. One of its great advantages is that when we heated, it becomes malleable and can take on varied sizes and shapes. Whether colourless or colourful, transparent, translucent or opaque, creativity on glass can be evolved into many decorative style as well as useful objects. The aim of this article is to provide various information related to the historic aspect of glass paintings and characteristic of glass since beginning this art.

This paper discusses three experiments on the aesthetic evaluation of different sonifications. The effects of training and understand-ing of the auditory display on its aesthetic appealing were tested. Results showed no significant effect, but a trend towards less ac-ceptance due to longer exposure