We commend Koelsch and colleagues [14] for developing a broad and integrative explanation of the neurobiological foundations of emotions. We especially welcome this framework’s emphasis on the interaction between language and emotion, and its focus on the characteristically human moral emotions. Emotions elicited by art and aesthetics also seem to be distinctively human, but comparatively littl...

This paper presents a novel coupling of haptics technology and music, introducing the notion of tactile composition or aesthetic composition for the sense of touch. A system that facilitates the composition and perception of intricate, musically structured spatio-temporal patterns of vibration on the surface of the body is described. An initial test of the system in a performance context is dis...

The subject of creativity may be one of the most misunderstood topics in management. We tend to equate creativity with pure artists, with those who are seemingly endowed with a mystical ability to make aesthetic sense out of color, shape and form. In the manager’s world, creativity is typically viewed as limited to picking out the art for the walls of a new office or selecting a designer to dev...

The digital design materials are unique in the sense that they are equally spatial and temporal. This implies that they have particular aesthetic qualities, something that the interaction design community has not addressed to a significant extent. I argue that interaction design would benefit from attempts to articulate experiential/aesthetic qualities of digital products and services, and illu...

Even though the emerging field of user experience generally acknowledges the importance of aesthetic qualities in interactive products and services, there is a lack of approaches recognizing the fundamentally temporal nature of interaction aesthetics. By means of interaction criticism, I introduce four concepts that begin to characterize the aesthetic qualities of interaction. Pliability refers...

The problem of the current research has been represented by the lack of studies on the foundations of forming the proportional relations in the Islamic architecture. The objective of the study was defined in an attempt to reveal the concepts and the items of the system of proportional relations in the Islamic architecture. The proportion in architecture either derived from the mathematical matr...

Aesthetic aspects of interaction have become a welldiscussed issue. In this paper we present some early results from an ongoing doctoral project focusing on exploring the area of full body movement interaction and in particularly what we call “kinAesthetic interaction”. The paper refers to an empirical study that aimed at exploring the area of bodily movements as interaction modality from a use...