Aesthetic Model Research Articles

Examining the multidimensional impact on soft drink packaging preferences through the unified model of aesthetics

Consumer psychology has been proven to have an essential influence on aesthetic preferences. Previous research on aesthetics focused on long-lasting product categories and was conducted at a single level. However, aesthetics is multidimensional, which has been overlooked. Our research is based on the unified model of aesthetics (UMA), which aims to investigate the unique contributions of the perceptual (unity, variety), cognitive (typicality, novelty), and social (connectedness, autonomy) levels to aesthetic preferences for packaging designs. The studies used soft drink packaging from the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) category as stimuli, and Chinese participants evaluated the packaging on a 7-point Likert scale. Study 1 shows that people gravitate toward safety over accomplishment and that connectedness, typicality, and unity are the main determinants of aesthetic pleasure. Study 2 added two scenarios: for “going to a very formal meeting,” stimuli with unity, typicality, and connectedness could best induce aesthetic pleasure. For “going to a good friend’s rave party,” the novelty, autonomy, and variety of designs were the most pleasing. Furthermore, two studies showed that for the overall stimulus, unity consistently evoked more positive aesthetic preferences than variety. Overall, this research provides new insights into aesthetic influences at the perceptual, cognitive, and social levels in soft drink packaging and offers new perspectives on aesthetic preferences for new product development.

Developing a Prime Aesthetic Theory: Imprinting of Aesthetic Dress Preferences During Sensitive Developmental Phases

This study advances the Prime Aesthetic Theory for Dress by examining the role of imprinting processes during sensitive developmental phases, particularly emerging adulthood, in shaping Aesthetic Dress Preferences (ADP). Through semi-structured interviews with thirty female participants born before 1992, data were analyzed using constant comparison to explore the relationship between past and present ADP. Findings support the concept of a “Prime Aesthetic,” illustrating how early-life experiences, especially during emerging adulthood, create lasting preferences that persist into adulthood. The study highlights the importance of considering social, psychological, neurological, and physical dimensions in understanding how ADP form and evolve. The proposed Prime Aesthetic model demonstrates the lasting impact of sensitive developmental phases on ADP. This research contributes to theory development in apparel and textile scholarship and offers valuable insights for designers, merchandisers, and marketers, emphasizing the need to understand not only current trends but also the Prime Aesthetic of their target consumers.

Exploring Smartwatch Aesthetic Preferences Through the Unified Model of Aesthetics

Exploring Smartwatch Aesthetic Preferences Through the Unified Model of Aesthetics

Le montage culturel européen comme le montage au cinéma et en art

The article presents a comparative approximation of the montage of culture and Europe with the process of montage in the visual arts. The article includes questions about the effects of montage applied in this way: is it a mixing, transplantation, a smooth transition from image to image or is it the law of attraction-repulsion that will create a flexible movement of connection or disconnection between European cultures? The method consists in identifying structures and models: topological – according to the movement of tectonic plates that break and find each other; linguistic – the Tower of Babel with a single language and human unity; or aesthetic – the operational model of montage in the arts, such as the one taken by various artists speaking of “national vegetable gardens” (K. Malevitch) or by L. de Vinci and S. M. Eisenstein, very close in their concepts and drawings. The body of the work is based on the history of art and on the texts of the artists. The analysis of works and the recall of numerous texts constitute montage in themselves. The problem is to observe the flexible relation of connection and distance, and then to check whether an aesthetic model such as montage is applicable to an artificial construction such as culture in Europe, which is itself a unifying montage.

Balancing typicality and novelty in ceramic design: A study on consumer aesthetic preferences

This study addresses the challenge of balancing typicality and novelty in ceramic design to optimise consumer aesthetic preferences. The objective is to analyse how these two dimensions—typicality, which provides familiarity, and novelty, which introduces cognitive interest—influence aesthetic appeal using the Unified Model of Aesthetics (UMA) framework. Employing a sample of 120 Chinese participants, the methodology involved evaluating ten ceramic designs on a seven-point Likert scale. Data analysis was conducted using Repeated Measures Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), partial correlation, and Generalized Estimation Equations (GEE) to assess the roles of typicality and novelty. Results reveal that while typicality strongly influences aesthetic preference, novelty provides moderate cognitive engagement, aligning with the MAYA (Most Advanced Yet Acceptable) principle. Age and gender showed minimal impact on preferences, suggesting design elements as primary determinants of aesthetic appeal. This study underscores the importance of balancing typicality and novelty in ceramic design, offering practical insights for designers to enhance consumer satisfaction through controlled innovative elements.

NRO-stylization: A novel algorithm for regular octahedral stylization aesthetic modeling of three-dimensional surface mesh

Stylization of 3D shapes has been a prominent topic in computer graphics. Geometric stylization, as a category within 3D shape stylization, has garnered widespread attention due to its distinctive geometric aesthetics. This paper introduces a novel and simplified method for achieving regular octahedral stylization, capable of transforming the input shape into the regular octahedral style while preserving the content of the original shape. The proposed method achieves regular octahedral stylization by using face normals. Its implementation is straightforward because it incurs a cost only in terms of solving several linear systems. To demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed method, extensive tests were conducted on models with varying levels of complexity and topological structures. The results highlight the exceptional capability of the proposed method to generate geometric shapes with an aesthetically pleasing regular octahedral style.

Cleaning: Practicing Everyday Aesthetics and Care

Performing various tasks to manage our daily lives does not fit comfortably with the predominant model of aesthetics, which consists of a disinterested spectator making a judgment on the aesthetic value of an object. Taking ‘cleaning’ as an example, this paper illuminates its rich aesthetic potential, which includes sensory and bodily engagement, development of aesthetic sensibility, activation of imagination, and cultivation of a care relationship with other people and the world.

Intelligent Evaluation Method of Interactive Experience Aesthetics Based on Eye Movement Data

The traditional intelligent evaluation method of interactive experience aesthetics has the problems of low evaluation accuracy and long evaluation time. In order to solve these problems, this paper proposes an intelligent evaluation method of interactive experience aesthetics based on eye movement data. Based on three kinds of eye movement data indicators, namely, search index, processing index and other indicators, an intelligent evaluation index system of interactive experience aesthetics is constructed according to the principles of rationality of interaction mode, conformity of information structure with users’ habits and consistency of interface. Seven intelligent evaluation indexes of interactive experience aesthetics, such as density, vertical symmetry and balance, are obtained according to the evaluation index results. The obtained evaluation indexes are preprocessed by cluster analysis. According to the preprocessing results, an intelligent evaluation model of interactive experience aesthetics is constructed by the entropy method, and the evaluation results are obtained. The experimental results show that the proposed method has high accuracy and a short evaluation time.

TOWARD A TELEMATIC AESTHETICS

This paper focuses on the Czech-born philosopher Vilém Flusser’s notion of telematic society, arguing that it implies a media-theoretical revision of Friedrich Schiller’s project for an aesthetic model of civic education, according to which aesthetic effectivity is reconsidered in light of a history of media based on a technological alternation of images and texts. After a brief overview of Schiller’s aesthetic letters, it examines the ways in which Flusser repositions and expands upon Schiller’s vision of an aesthetic education (most importantly, the aesthetic condition or middle disposition), highlighting the role that Flusser assigns to the evolution of codes inherent in the most important cultural and media techniques, namely, images, texts, and technical images. It then shows how this modification results in a forecasting of a telematic model of aesthetic education, before concluding by addressing the prospects of such a model in a post-digital world of automated media bias.

Tahitian Aesthetic Model and its Influence on the Self-colonization of Contemporary Chinese Painting

Tahitian Aesthetic Model and its Influence on the Self-colonization of Contemporary Chinese Painting

Evaluating the safety and aesthetic of a city park (Case study: Saee Park in Tehran)

Proximity to green spaces, waterside, and various cultural or recreational objects increase the quality of life. Nevertheless, the neighborhood with the urban park also has adverse effects on the quality of life. The purpose of this research is to investigate the state of aesthetics and safety in urban parks. Aesthetic service is considered as cultural services and safety service is considered as regulatory services in the park. District 6 of Tehran was selected as a case study. The aesthetic model was used to evaluate the aesthetic quality of Saee Park and the Fuzzy DEMATEL model was used to evaluate the safety of the park. The results of the aesthetic quality assessment of this research indicate that due to the presence of Saee Park in the northeast of this region, the aesthetic quality of this region is maximum in this part and the aesthetic quality of the southwest part of this region is minimum. The results of the safety evaluation in the park also show that the guards are the most influential and the paths through the parks are the most affectability. The management of the park has the most interaction with other factors of the safety system in the park. Finally, it is concluded that the management of the park is suitable for maintaining the safety of the citizens, and in combination with other factors affecting the safety of the park, it can provide a safe environment for the citizens.

ЭСТЕТИЧЕСКИЕ МОДЕЛИ ВХОЖДЕНИЯ ВОССТАНАВЛИВАЕМЫХ ПРОМЫШЛЕННЫХ ОБЪЕКТОВ В СТРУКТУРУ ОКРУЖАЮЩЕЙ ЗАСТРОЙКИ

The article presents models of aesthetic formation of reconstructed industrial objects of the Soviet period in the surrounding development in the context of sustainability at the level of the city structure, taking into account the growth of the urban fabric. The industrial enterprises in question, as a rule, initially located on the outskirts of the city. Due to the dynamics of urbanization processes, they have become tightly integrated into the urban fabric, and are currently so-called exclusion zones, since they are large-sized relative to the surrounding development objects, including residential buildings and elements of the infrastructure of its social and domestic services. It is also necessary to note the enterprises that are city-forming and located in the structure of the historical center of the urban settlement, where it is especially important to preserve the authenticity of the historical development: to introduce reconstructed industrial facilities as delicately as possible (to select the aesthetic model of the reconstructed enterprise) into the historically established visual and aesthetic code of the city. Thus, two models of aesthetic inclusion of existing industrial enterprises being restored into the city structure have been identified: mimicry, related to objects located in the historical part of the city, and accentual – forming a visual center of attraction outside the historical part of the city, on the periphery and outside the city. The article also examines options for aesthetic inclusion of industrial objects being reconstructed depending on their urban development features: the presence of buffer zones and sanitary protection zones, the presence of external railway routes adjacent to the objects

3D evaluation model of facial aesthetics based on multi-input 3D convolution neural networks for orthognathic surgery.

Quantitative evaluation of facial aesthetics is an important but also time-consuming procedure in orthognathic surgery, while existing 2D beauty-scoring models are mainly used for entertainment with less clinical impact. A deep-learning-based 3D evaluation model DeepBeauty3D was designed and trained using 133 patients' CT images. The customised image preprocessing module extracted the skeleton, soft tissue, and personal physical information from raw DICOM data, and the predicting network module employed 3-input-2-output convolution neural networks (CNN) to receive the aforementioned data and output aesthetic scores automatically. Experiment results showed that this model predicted the skeleton and soft tissue score with 0.231±0.218 (4.62%) and 0.100±0.344 (2.00%) accuracy in 11.203±2.824s from raw CT images. This study provided an end-to-end solution using real clinical data based on 3D CNN to quantitatively evaluate facial aesthetics by considering three anatomical factors simultaneously, showing promising potential in reducing workload and bridging the surgeon-patient aesthetics perspective gap.

The Effects of UMA (Unified Model of Aesthetics) and CM (Categorical-motivation Model) in the Application of Aesthetic Preferences for Clothing Products

The Effects of UMA (Unified Model of Aesthetics) and CM (Categorical-motivation Model) in the Application of Aesthetic Preferences for Clothing Products

Художественное решение проблемы современной молодежи в прозе А. Мизова

This paper attempts to identify the aesthetic models of Kabardino-Circassian literature in its evo-lution, through the patterns of affirmation of ideals, stereotypes and cliches, appropriate for de-termining authors and specific time periods. The object of this study is the works of one of the brightest representatives of rural prose, a follower of the “writers of the sixties” Ahmed Mizov. The work focuses on identifying the peculiarities of the modern artist’s worldview, the connection of his works with life and a pronounced attitude to the reliability of the presentation. The rele-vance of the research topic is determined by its innovative nature associated with the analysis of unexplored works of Kabardino-Circassian literature. Researchers drew the following conclusions based on their scientific research of the prose writer's work: a) A. Mizov is a master of the short story; b) a sensitive perception of the surrounding world allowed the author to create a whole gal-lery of artistic images, memorable for their immediacy; c) significant changes in social and polit-ical life, in everyday life, in the psychology of the ethnic group over the past decades, the artistic need to understand and show them underlie the novels, short stories, short stories by Ahmed Mi-zov. He fills his novels, short stories, and short stories with an artistic vision of the world. Their heroes are lively, original people, young people, mostly rural and their problems. In the course of the study of the writer’s work, a set of scientific methods was applied, including comparative, comparative-historical, description and literary analysis, which, from the point of view of usage, makes it possible to determine both structural models and the content-conceptual aspect of the artist’s work. The practical significance of the article is the results obtained, which can become a theoretical aid in further research of the work of modern authors and in the study of Kabardino-Circassian literature. They can also be used to prepare undergraduate and graduate students in philological faculties, as well as lecture courses on linked peoples’ literature and Russian litera-ture. The article is intended to facilitate the entry of works of national literature into the all-Russian cultural context.

Transforming urban industrial landscapes through art tourism – a gentrification aesthetics model from Abu Dhabi’s case

PurposeThis paper aims to explore the opinions of business owners in an industrial area of Abu Dhabi that could be potentially turned into an art tourism destination.Design/methodology/approachBy mobilizing the concept of “gentrification aesthetics,” the authors use a recall technique to explore support toward art from business owners, regression analyses to understand how the type and content of art predicts gentrification support and chi-square to research the differences between respondents who support the area to become a creative place and those who do not.FindingsA model that explains the connection between gentrification aesthetics and art tourism is presented.Research limitations/implicationsThe authors’ proposed model results from testing the possibilities for expanding art tourism specifically and may not apply to other types of tourism. Future research is needed to understand whether and how the model can be applied to other forms of tourist consumption.Practical implicationsThe current research presents a case study on how tourism can be strategically expanded into more rural places in a city.Social implicationsThe authors found significant differences between respondents who would like to see Mussafah becoming a creative place in five years and those who believe Mussafah needs to be(come) something else.Originality/valueWhile work on tourism gentrification has been conducted, the nexus between gentrification aesthetics and art tourism cannot be found. Their relation can help to expend (art) tourism from busy cultural attractions to industrial areas. The present research fills this gap.

Integrated The Unified Model of Aesthetics and The Categorical-Motivation Model

Integrated The Unified Model of Aesthetics and The Categorical-Motivation Model

Foucault, Kant, and Antiquity

Michel Foucault’s return to classical antiquity at the end of his career coincides with a turn away from institutional critique and a return to Kant. This is no coincidence. Foucault’s Introduction to Kant’s “Anthropology” (1961) completely anticipates his approach to ancient subject formations, which reflects Kant’s theory of the liberal, self-enterprising, and enlightened subject as this is outlined in Foucault’s “What Is Enlightenment?” (1984) and elsewhere. Foucault’s final studies surface isolated, private, and autonomous subjects who are at once premodern, proto-Christian, and uncannily modern. Fashioned by ascetic and aesthetic models of self-care, they testify to “a genealogy of the modern subject.”

Variables that explain disordered eating behaviors among women: the mediating role of body dissatisfaction

PurposeTo analyze the role of body dissatisfaction in the relationships of sociocultural influences, depression, and anxiety with disordered eating behaviors (DEB) in a sample of female Mexican university students.MethodsA nonrandom sample of 526 female Mexican university students aged 18 to 25 years completed the Questionnaire of Influence on the Aesthetic Model of Body Shape (CIMEC-26), the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), the Body Shape Questionnaire (BSQ-8D) and the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-26).ResultsThrough the mean model (χ2/df (5, n = 526) = 7.298, p = .199; NFI = .996; CFI = .999; RMSEA = .030; SRMR = .011), body dissatisfaction was found to mediate the relationships of influence of advertising, influence of social models and anxiety with DEB (restrictive dieting and bulimia). The variable with the most direct effect on restrictive dieting and bulimia was the influence of advertising. Body dissatisfaction partially mediated this relationship, as the influence of advertising had a significant direct effect on restrictive dieting and bulimia. The final model of direct and indirect effects explained 43% and 22% of the variance in restrictive dieting and bulimia, respectively.ConclusionThe present study showed that body dissatisfaction partially mediated the relationships between influence of advertising, influence of social models, and anxiety with DEB among women. Thus, these variables should be taken into account in prevention and intervention programs targeting BED. Level V: Evidence obtained from a cross-sectional descriptive study.Level VEvidence obtained from a cross-sectional descriptive study.

A Critical Assessment of the Construction of the Image of Middle-aged Women in the Chinese Variety Show Sisters Who Make Waves

With the progress of society and the development of education, the status of women has gradually risen. However, under the patriarchal aesthetic model, middle-aged women are still forced to accept the judgement of patriarchy and gradually lose their "selves". This paper aims to critically assess the image of middle-aged women in the Chinese reality TV variety show Sisters Who Make Wavess to emphasise that women of different ages have the same subjective consciousness and voice on TV and in the media, and to call on middle-aged women to break away from the shackles of age, to show their self-confidence and maturity, as well as to reflect on the role of the media in the promotion of women's development and gender equality.