Abstract It is a noteworthy disanalogy between contemporary ethics and aesthetics that the fitting-attitude account of value, so prominent in ethics, sees comparatively little play aesthetics. The aim this paper to articulate what systematic fitting-attitude-style framework for understanding aesthetic value might look like. In bulk paper, I sketch possible accounts three central values—the beau...

Humans receive multiple benefits from various landscapes that foster ecological services and aesthetic attractiveness. In this study, a hybrid framework was proposed to evaluate ecological and aesthetic values of five landscape types in Houguanhu Region of central China. Data from the public aesthetic survey and professional ecological assessment were converted into a two-dimensional coordinate...

Aesthetic value is an important factor that should be considered in lake environments. However, there is a lack of research examining and undertaking investigation of the aesthetic value of multifunctional lake ecosystems. There are two major purposes for this study: (1) to define and investigate the important perceived attributes related to the aesthetic value of multifunctional lakes using a ...

We investigated whether design experts or laypersons evaluate webpages differently. Twenty participants, 10 experts and 10 laypersons, judged the aesthetic value of a webpage in an EEG-experiment. Screenshots of 150 webpages, judged as aesthetic or as unaesthetic by another 136 participants, served as stimulus material. Behaviorally, experts and laypersons evaluated unaesthetic webpages similar...

An important aspect of screen design is aesthetic evaluation of screen layouts. However, no one knows how to measure aesthetic value. This article proposes a theoretical approach to capturing the essence of the artists’ insight. We introduce several aesthetic measures for graphic screens. The results of our informal study demonstrate close relationships between artistic vision and the proposed ...