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Aesthetics for the Web - English
URL: http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/98/07/index1a.html

Jeffrey's journey into the heart of Web design leads him to speed, simplicity, and clarity.

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Wolfgang Schirmacher: Media Aesthetics in Europe - English
URL: http://www.nettime.org/nettime.w3archive/200001/msg00016.html

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Wolfgang Schirmacher, a prominent German philosopher, based in New York, is the program director of the European Graduate School Communication Department (see: www.egs.edu). On their homepage we can find this announcement and an interesting text about the disconnection between philosophy and media in Europe.

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International Yearbook of Aesthetics Volume 2, 1998 - English
URL: http://www.britishcouncil.si/iaa/298hh.htm

Environmental Aesthetics and Conventional Aesthetic Theory by Hilde Hein, Holy Cross College, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.

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The Aesthetics and Practice of Designing Interactive Computer Events - English
URL: http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~swilson/papers/interactive2.html

Much confusion and hyperbole surrounds discussions of the aesthetics of interactive computer events. This essay works to clarify some of this confusion by analyzing the differences between interactive and non-interactive events, reviewing the variety of forms included under the umbrella term of interactivity, and investigating the theoretical rationales offered to support claims of interactivity's superiority derived from psychological, political, art historical, and technohistory sources. Building on this analysis, the essay suggests extensions to current GUI design canons that uniquely attend to interactivity as an aesthetic issue. It also investigates the challenges of the interactivity possibilities of emerging technologies.

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Technological Allusivity: Appreciating and Teaching the Role of Aesthetics in Engineering Design - English
URL: http://fie.engrng.pitt.edu/fie95/3a5/3a51/3a51.htm

The role of aesthetics in engineering design is fleshed out, aesthetic allusion is distinguished from symbolic signifying, and examples of aesthetics in technical products as well as in the process of design are discussed. The paper concludes with some thoughts and recommendations about teaching aesthetics to undergraduate engineering students.

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International Institute of Applied Aesthetics - English
URL: http://www.lpt.fi/io/iiaa/

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