Aesthetic Production Research Articles

RETRACTED: A hybrid model to develop aesthetic product design of customer satisfaction

With the improvement of manufacturing technology, the performance gap between different products has been gradually narrowed, and customers pay more and more attention to psychological feelings and aesthetic experiences in the process of purchasing and using products. Therefore, the main purpose of this research is to construct a hybrid model of aesthetic product design to develop customer satisfaction. Firstly, seven customer aesthetic needs are summarized by discussing the literature. The Kansei evaluation and customer satisfaction evaluation are investigated using Likert-scale, and the neural network is repeatedly trained and tested to obtain the weight of each aesthetic requirement. Secondly, the morphological analysis method is used to obtain the product morphological deconstruction table, and the entropy method is used to calculate the initial weights of the engineering characteristics (ECs). Finally, quality function development (QFD) is used as the platform to construct the relationship matrix between customer aesthetic needs and product ECs. Grey relationship analysis is used to calculate the final weight of ECs and obtain the priority of ECs. The research takes the side view of a car as a case. The results show that the best product form combination can provide a reference for designers and effectively improve the aesthetic experience and customer satisfaction of the product.

A Conceptual Design Specification Based on User Aesthetic Information Analysis and Product Functional Reasoning

User satisfaction with a product plays a direct role in the purchasing decisions. With the enrichment of material life and the growth of individual requirements, this satisfaction is derived from the requirement for functionality to aesthetics. Conventional product design methods normally focus on achieving the required functions where its design specifications are mainly related to certain functional or usability requirements. In recent years, researchers have made efforts to develop methods for supporting aesthetic design activities during the product conceptual design phase. However, most of these methods hardly consider product aesthetics or the consumers’ emotional needs. Therefore, this study proposed a user-driven conceptual design specification integrating functional reasoning with aesthetic information analysis. The method consisted of two tasks, the construction of a mapping model and the implementation of the mapping model. Firstly, the mapping model was constructed for capturing the relationships between initial design specifications and user experience (UX). Secondly, the proposed design specifications were selected, refined, and optimized based on the mapping model. A case study on digital camera design was carried out to demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed method. The results showed that, compared with the initial design specification candidates, the UX was enhanced by applying the improved design specifications.

Η δια-πραγμάτευση του μέγιστου με την ποιητική του ελάχιστου

The literary text does not only constitute a socially morphed product that takes into consideration the historical and social circumstances which created it, but at the same time it is an aesthetic product, an art product, that is, of the particular artistic intervention of its creator. In the following text, we attempt to approach dialectically the book series by Veggelis Iliopoulos, containing Trigonopsaroulis, a unique character, in a way that takes into account the extratextual historical and social coordinates of the literary text, to the extent that these are expressed as connotations in a semantic level through the productive process of writing.

Preliminary Results from an Investigational Post-Shave Cream

ABSTRACT Introduction Historical art from ancient Egypt and classical Greece, suggest that many women may have removed some or all of their pubic hair. In addition, during the Italian Renaissance nude women were often illustrated without pubic hair. Recently, pubic hair removal, as well as body hair trimming, grooming, manscaping and other removal of bodily hair (torso, arms, chest etc) has often been described as the “new norm”. In one survey, approximately 80% of women, 18-65 years of age have reported that they remove some or all of their pubic hair. In addition, another survey estimated that almost 80% of men shave the area around the penis and scrotum. Also, 43% of men reported a history of shaving in the perinium area. Multiple methods, including, but not limited to; shaving, waxing, plucking, cutting, laser removal, chemical creams, and electrolysis all remove unwanted hair but may also significantly affect skin health and barrier integrity. Little is known on post-shave skin recovery and skin health. A novel post-shave cream product was developed to address skin health for all body parts. The product was designed and formulated with specific ingredients that are compatible with the sensitive skin in the perineum and genital area. Objective This research is a prospective case study which was conducted to assess consumer acceptance and tolerability of a post-shave cream when used by healthy women and men immediately after shaving a diversity of body parts and over the course of four weeks. Methods A post-shave cream was formulated by a multi-disciplinary team including Obstetrician / Gynecologist, Cosmetic Chemist, and Chemical engineer. The formulation delivery system includes a reverse emulsion containing emollients, skin protectants, and moisturizing ingredients, including hyaluronic acid. The novel cream contains technology to allow for immediate and prolonged skin benefits including soothing and moisturization. A consumer in-use case study was performed. This was a single-center consumer in-use case study that was performed at a sexual medicine center by a trained sexual medicine physician. Twenty subjects, 17-65 years old, and in good medical and with no active untreated medical conditions were recruited in the study. Subjects applied the post-shave cream to the body area immediately after shaving and at least once daily for four weeks. At the end of the study, self-assessment questions were completed. A Pearson's chi-squared test was performed on responses to each question. The null hypothesis was that the responses (positive, negative, neutral) were evenly distributed among the 20 patients. The goal was to disprove the null hypothesis at a significance level of *p <0.05. All subjects responded to all questions. Results Twenty subjects, 10 female subjects and 10 male subjects, with an average age of 40.8 +/- 11.8 years completed the consumer in-use case study. Overall, subjects applied the product twice daily to post-shaved skin. Male subjects applied the post-shave cream to their face, penile shaft, chest, scrotum, buttocks, legs, and head. Female subject applied the post-shave cream to their legs/arms, underarms, mons pubis, and vulva. Self-assessment results indicated highly statistically (***p < 0.001) favorable responses for each category: product characteristics, skin feel, and overall satisfaction. Specifically, after 4 weeks: - 100% of subjects responded favorably to “I enjoyed the product aesthetics which include feel, texture, and odor.” - 100% of subjects responded favorably to “The product soothed my skin post shaving.” - 100% of subjects responded favorably to “This product minimized the appearance of skin redness.” - 100% of subjects responded favorably to “I would recommend this product for those that are looking to purchase a post-shave cream.” These results suggest that the post-shave cream helped soothe the skin, reduce the appearance of redness, and improve skin health and barrier. Furthermore, results from subjective tolerability evaluation showed that the post-shave cream yielded no adverse events for any subject by the end of the study. Conclusion This single-center consumer in-use case study supports the hypothesis that the post-shave cream when used immediately after post-shaving and for continuous use up to four weeks achieved consumer acceptance and was tolerable. Consumer acceptance was demonstrated in all self-assessment categories, product characteristics, skin perception, and overall satisfaction. Disclosure Yes, this is sponsored by industry/sponsor: Revision Skincare®

Notework: Victorian Literature and Nonlinear Style. Simon Reader. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021. Pp. vii+238.

<i>Notework: Victorian Literature and Nonlinear Style</i>. Simon Reader. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021. Pp. vii+238.

WORKING BY THE NUMBERS

The performance artists Florian Feigl and Fjóla Gautadóttir engage with production conditions of artistic work through their ways of managing time in performances. Informed by Marxist and feminist theories on affective and reproductive work, and with references to the history of performance art, I demonstrate how, contrary to myths of inspiration and virtuosity, production conditions co-create artistic authorship. Thereby, I reexamine what traditionally is termed as the aesthetics of production. An aesthetics of production is, I suggest, not about natural talent and originality of the soloist artist genius but is founded on the interdependency of life and work, and what enables the artist to do work. Feigl and Gautadóttir’s performances include what has been excluded as disturbances by idealist aesthetics of production: the sociality, temporality and economy of the artistic work. By proposing a feminist-materialist aesthetics of production, I claim that the artist’s work is not only working by the numbers of the present production conditions, but is also performing and intervening within the infrastructures of art.

Performing Resistance: Imagining Nation in Sama’s Play Amar Singha

Framing the concept of performance as a mode of resistance in aesthetic production is itself a rigorous act, nevertheless this article aims to unleash how these modes of resistance are articulated through the characters in the historical play, Amarsingh (1991) by Balakrishna Sama. The performance of the characters, as such; Amar, Girvana, Balabhadra, Ranajor Singh and the soldiers involved in the Anglo- Nepal war on border disputes during the19th century shed the light on Nationalist mode of resistance against their enemies (firangees). Mostly, the spontaneous counteracts as they pose from side to side against the frontier enemies are akin to imagine a ‘consolidated nationalism’ as a whole. In this context, Sama’s play Amarsingh lays the foundation to imagine nation as a whole through the mode of ‘writing back’ as performing the resistance.

Germicidal efficacy of the pulsed magnetic field against pathogens and spoilage microorganisms in food processing: An overview

In addition to excessive use of chemical and physical antiseptics in food, any harmful microorganisms present in food are potentially the cause of food safety issues and even cause foodborne diseases to threaten human health. Thermal processing of food as a conventional sterilization technology has been widely used in the food industry to ensure food safety. However, heat treatment has some inevitable adverse effects on nutrition, flavor, color, texture, and aesthetics of the food products. Therefore, it is necessary to research novel nonthermal, green technologies to minimize the impact of undesirable changes on food, and enhance the inactivation efficiency of microorganisms that can cause foodborne illnesses. This review presents a general perspective of the pulsed magnetic field (PMF) as a novel nonthermal sterilization technology. The operating principle, characteristics, and biological effects on microorganisms of PMF are described. Furthermore, the possible inactivation mechanisms and their application in food processing are also addressed. PMF sterilization is considered to be an effective and efficient microorganism eliminating technology that exerts its germicidal ability by magnetoporation and electromagnetic effects, mainly including induced current effect, Lorentz force effect, oscillation effect, and ionization effect. Compared to thermal treatment, PMF sterilization technique meets the requirements of commercial food sterilization standards without impacting food flavor, taste, and texture. The findings of our review suggest that PMF itself would be beneficial as a bacteria inactivation technique or could be readily combined with other suitable methods. Besides, we recommend conceivable paths to adopt this sustainable technique in the food industry. • Pulsed magnetic field as a nonthermal sterilization technology is presented. • PMF is an effective and efficient microorganism eliminating process. • PMF exerts sterilization ability by magnetoporation and electromagnetic effects. • Pulsed magnetic field sterilization technology can be applied in the food industry.

Cognitive complexity, stylistic innovation and performance: A preliminary study of small Taiwanese design firms

&lt;p&gt;This preliminary study investigates cognitive complexity, or an individual’s cognitive structure for his or her social world, and its role in stylistic innovation, particularly changes of design in the appearance or symbolic meaning of products, for five Taiwanese small design firms. The results reveal that cognitive complexity is useful to understand the stylistic innovation processes of Taiwanese entrepreneur-designers. The entrepreneur-designers use cognitive complexity to determine the structural prerequisites of aesthetic products. The domain-specific cognitive complexity of the entrepreneur-designer influences the selection of relevant and appropriate dimensions in stylistic innovation. Entrepreneur-designers’ strategic decisions to target a customer-oriented market or designer-driven market will affect the selection of stylistic orchestration and agile synchronization in the process of stylistic innovation.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

The Heresy of Didactic Art

The Heresy of Didactic Art

The role of design capability for achieving innovation in a technology follower company: The case of boiler design

Design capability has been accepted as a core innovation activity. It refers to the ‘functionality/usability’ and ‘aesthetics’ of new products or services. Oslo Manual 2018 explored design capability within the context of three significant fields—industrial design, engineering design, design thinking—each of which is affected by the need to integrate design with business. Using this context as a basis, this study enhances the definition of design capability by integrating the communication aspect of industrial design with the creation of meaningful and aesthetic products. Key themes in design capability and innovation are visualized in ‘Design Capability Model for Innovation’ and reviewed via the investigation of a technology-follower company’s design capabilities. This case study reveals the evolution of a company towards being design-driven within the context of strategy, culture, technological capabilities, and cost limits; and aims to raise awareness of the value generated by innovative design.

Passenger comfort evaluation of the stowing and unloading luggage task in high-speed trains: Fusion of R-DEMATEL and FNN

At present, high-speed trains have become popular modern transportation. As a significant part of the high-speed train riding activity, the stowing and unloading luggage task has its characteristics. To comprehensively and reasonably evaluate passenger comfort of the stowing and unloading luggage task in high-speed trains. In this paper, passenger behavior characteristics are firstly analyzed by the author, the theoretical architecture of passenger comfort evaluation is constructed with the perspective of product aesthetics and ergonomics, and then the process of the passenger comfort evaluation is put forward. Secondly, a combination of Rough Number (RN) and Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) (i.e. R-DEMATEL) is utilized to solve the centrality degree of comfort influencing factors and determine comfort evaluation indexes. Furthermore, the passenger comfort evaluation model with Fuzzy Neural Network (FNN) is constructed and trained. After that, the sample data of the evaluation are collected through the simulated experiment of the stowing and unloading luggage task, and they are trained with FNN comparing to Back Propagation Neural Network (BPNN). Eventually, the result of examples testing is verified that the effectiveness of the proposed method.

Artificial intelligence in industrial design: A semi-automated literature survey

In the era of industry 4.0, artificial intelligence (AI) may potentially be used to provide reasoning and decision support on engineering and technical challenges. The role of AI in industrial design, which is the practice of improving the function, value and aesthetics of products to optimise customer satisfaction, has not yet been extensively explored. To effectively synthesise the existing literature, an unsupervised learning-enabled review methodology is proposed in this study. Important journals and articles are identified by using k-means clustering, and the relevant articles are analysed by using co-citation, bibliographic coupling, and co-occurrence analyses. Six clusters of the body of knowledge are then extracted, and naming of the clusters is assisted by using document summarisation and evaluation. Consequently, six intellectual cores related to AI in industrial design are formulated: (i) supply chain perspectives on product design and innovation, (ii) manufacturability and performance of new product development, (iii) intelligent tools and systems for industrial design and engineering, (iv) applied intelligence for product and service innovation, (v) industry 4.0 technologies for design and manufacturing, and (vi) blockchain-enabled artificial intelligence in industry 4.0. Future research trends on sustainable design, trust in AI, and emerging technology integration towards the next-generation AI in industrial design are discussed.

Mobile Shopping during COVID-19: The Effect of Hedonic Experience on Brand Conspicuousness, Brand Identity and Associated Behavior

COVID-19 has impacted economic and social conditions around the globe. In a post-pandemic world, the labor models have been shifting in favor of working from home and shopping toward online purchasing through mobile devices. The pandemic has, in addition to disrupting the world economy, triggered changes in consumer behavior that require a rethinking of marketing efforts from the consumer’s perspective and a fundamental shift in branding strategies and managerial thinking. This paper expanded the understanding of the mobile consumer behavior of Generation Z consumers in China by examining the changes in their behavior in response to the pandemic. We used a structural equation model (SEM) to show that, in mobile shopping, the hedonic experience has played an essential role in signaling brand conspicuousness and product aesthetics, in turn promoting brand identity and associated behavioral reactions. The paper concludes with a discussion of the implications of these changes for branding identity and brand management.

Visual aesthetics and user experience: A multiple-session experiment

The article reports a longitudinal lab experiment, in which the influence of product aesthetics and inherent product usability was examined over a period of 7 weeks. Using a 2 × 2 × 7 mixed design, visual aesthetics (high vs. low) and usability (high vs. low) were manipulated as between-subjects variables whereas exposure time was used as a repeated-measures variable. One hundred and ten participants took part in the study, during which they carried out typical tasks of operating a fully automated coffee machine. We measured user experience by using the following outcome variables: perceived usability, perceived attractiveness, performance, affect, workload and perceived coffee quality (gustatory aesthetics). We found no effect of visual aesthetics on user experience (including perceived usability as the chief outcome variable), which is in contrast to a considerable number of previous studies. The absence of such an effect might be associated with influencing factors that have not yet been given sufficient attention (e.g., user identification with product, sensory dominance, characteristics of specific products).

Perceived Characteristics of Materials in a Product Aesthetics Context

Materials possess a number of objective characteristics, the values of which can be determined experimentally. On the other hand, materials also have a number of subjective characteristics, such as perceived quality, perceived performance, and so on. These perceived features are very important in constructing the product’s aesthetics. The paper presents the results of three experiments performed to determine perceived characteristics (quality, performance, durability, modernity, and aesthetics) associated with four classes of materials (metal, plastic, wood, and ceramics). Computer-designed product models were used in the experiments. All products used in the experiment were low-tech. The design was varied on three levels: minimal, elaborate, and exceptional. Differences in perception were found for each level of design. It has been found that the elaborate design improves the perception of the characteristics of the materials, but the exceptional design has a negative influence on the perception. Plastics benefit greatly from the contribution of design, while wood (traditional material) is better perceived in the case of minimal design.&#x0D;

The scarcity of beauty: how and why product aesthetics mobilize consumer acquisition effort

The scarcity of beauty: how and why product aesthetics mobilize consumer acquisition effort

Repeatability of dental shade by digital spectrophotometry in current, former, and never smokers

Cigarette smoking contributes to poor oral health and dental discoloration. Therefore, stopping smoking may translate into measurable amelioration of dental shade indices. We compared dental shade parameters by digital spectrophotometry among current, former, and never smokers and verified their repeatability at 7 and 30 days. Dental shade parameters (CIE L*a*b* and corresponding whiteness index for dentistry-WID) were measured in current, former, and never smokers with a digital spectrophotometer (Vita Easyshade V) on three separate study visits: at baseline (day 0), at day 7, and day 30. Dental shade parameters were analyzed in 18 current, 18 former, and 20 never smokers. The repeatability of shade parameters was consistent in current, former, and never smokers. L*, a*, b*, and WID show significant short and long-term repeatability (p < 0.0001, by regression analyses). The mean (± SD) WID score of 13.42 (± 4.9) in current smokers was significantly lower compared to the WID score of 20.38 (± 5.3) in never smokers (p = 0.001). No significant differences were observed between current and former smokers and between former smokers and former smokers. Dental shade measurements by digital spectrophotometry were highly reproducible and showed that teeth whiteness of current smokers is substantially inferior compared to never smokers. Objective discrimination of dental shade can be a valuable regulatory science endpoint for investigating oral hygiene and dental aesthetics of consumer care products, smoking cessation medications, and tar-free tobacco products (e-cigarettes, heated tobacco products, oral nicotine products) for cigarette substitution.Clinical trial registration: the study was not registered in ClinicalTrials.gov considering that it is a pilot study, parts of a larger project with ID: NCT04649645

Crafting latex-coated fabrics: An experimental study with a local material of southern Thailand

This article presents an experimental study of patterns created on latex-coated fabric by applying artistic and local craft techniques to create value-added aesthetics. The study sample was a southern community enterprise group in Southern Thailand, where the primary career was growing rubber trees. At present, rubber latex is used to coat fabrics in agricultural products such as artificial flooring pound, lime planting and planting trees for propagation. The experimental creative research was set up with the latex formula used for ponds or planting containers, local, readily available fabrics and techniques that can be applied by the community enterprise. The results found that the latex formula needed to be adjusted to reduce the stickiness so that it was suitable for particular pattern-making techniques. Using latex, it was possible to mix it with poster paint, acrylic paint, latex pigment and coloured latex to create other new colours. The rubber coating material was excellent in terms of water, and friction resistance, was washable and durable. The resulting coatings were combined with different textile techniques and applied as a material to enhance the aesthetics of other fabric and rubber-based products. The experiment resulted in new ways to create added value in the field of aesthetics to develop handicrafts imbued with local cultural identity. This innovative crafting process has the potential to be developed in association with a wide range of products, while increasing the economic value of rubber and the sustainability of the community.

AI-Assisted Design Concept Exploration Through Character Space Construction.

We propose an AI-assisted design concept exploration tool, the “Character Space Construction” (“CSC”). Concept designers explore and articulate the target product aesthetics and semantics in language, which is expressed using “Design Concept Phrases” (“DCPs”), that is, compound adjective phrases, and contrasting terms that convey what are not their target design concepts. Designers often utilize this dichotomy technique to communicate the nature of their aesthetic and semantic design concepts with stakeholders, especially in an early design development phase. The CSC assists this designers' cognitive activity by constructing a “Character Space” (“CS”), which is a semantic quadrant system, in a structured manner. A CS created by designers with the assistance of the CSC enables them to discern and explain their design concepts in contrast with opposing terms. These terms in a CS are retrieved and combined in the CSC by using a knowledge graph. The CSC presents terms and phrases as lists of candidates to users from which users will choose in order to define the target design concept, which is then visualized in a CS. The participants in our experiment, who were in the “arts and design” profession, were given two conditions under which to create DCPs and explain them. One group created and explained the DCPs with the assistance of the proposed CSC, and the other did the same task without this assistance, given the freedom to use any publicly available web search tools instead. The result showed that the group assisted by the CSC indicated their tasks were supported significantly better, especially in exploration, as measured by the Creativity Support Index (CSI).