Beauty Matters! Usability and Aesthetics - 7th Information Design Symposium - November 27, 2008

Dear InfoDesign community,

I would like to inform you concerning our Information Design Symposium in
Stuttgart, Germany.

   Beauty Matters! Usability and Aesthetics, November 27, 2008

I think it could be very interesting for you and we would be happy to meet
you in Stuttgart.

Best regards

Michael Burmester
Stuttgart Media University, Germany
[email protected]



Apologies for cross-postings


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Beauty Matters!
Usability and Aesthetics
7th Information Design Symposium
	
Thursday, November 27, 2008, 
Stuttgart Media University

Interactive technologies are close to ubiquitous. From everyday products
such as mobile phones, entertainment and work applications of the web to
machines or medical systems – many products require the interaction of
people with technology. Obviously, these products have to be designed in a
way to be understood and used easily. It is thus not surprising that a
product’s usability and the corresponding methods and processes to achieve
it become more and more important. This is good in itself, however, many
feel that something important is missing. A quality that is crucial but at
the same time elusive and hard to grasp with current engineering methods and
processes – beauty.

The study of beauty in interactive products has many open questions, such
as: 
Does beauty solely lie in the eye of the beholder or can it be objectified? 
Do users of interactive products care about beauty at all? What human needs
are satisfied by beauty? 
What is the structure of an aesthetic experience? 
Can we design beauty in a systematic way, or is it just gut feeling?
Do people pay for beauty? Are they more creative when working with beautiful
products? 
Etc. 

The 7th International Information Design Symposium Beauty Matters! Usability
and Aesthetics will give answers to these questions. 
Two goals are to be achieved: to make beauty graspable within a product
development process and to make sure that using future interactive products
will become an aesthetic experience.


Speakers

Paul Hekkert (Delft University)
What is beneficial is pleasant

Thomas Jacobsen (Leipzig University)
Neuro-cognitive psychology of aesthetics

Meinald T. Thielsch (University of Münster)
Experimental approaches on aesthetics and usability

Christoph Häberle (Stuttgart Media University)
Colour preferences, social conventions and individual aesthetic perception

Peter Wright (Sheffield Hallam University)
The aesthetics of experience-centred design

Marc Hassenzahl (University of Koblenz-Landau)
Consequences of beauty

Axel Platz (Siemens AG)
Beauty matters – but what the hell is beauty?

Kees Overbeeke (Eindhoven University of Technology)
Designing for aesthetics in interaction


The symposium is organized by
  Michael Burmester (Stuttgart Media University, Germany),
  Marc Hassenzahl (University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany) and
  Franz Koller (User Interface Design GmbH, Ludwigsburg, Germany).


You can find further information and registration details on the symposium’s
website: 
www.idsymposium.de/2008


Contact
Stuttgart Media University (HdM) Phone: +49 (0)711 25706 114
David Prüm Fax: +49 (0)711 25706 300
Nobelstraße 10 E-mail: [email protected]
70569 Stuttgart, Germany 
Internet: www.idsymposium.de/2008

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Michael Burmester

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Prof. Dr. Michael Burmester

Professor für Ergonomie und Usability
Professor for Ergonomics and Usability

Hochschule der Medien
Stuttgart Media University, Germany
 
Wolframstraße 32,
D-70191 Stuttgart
Germany
 
Tel. +49 (0) 711 / 25706 - 101
Fax. +49 (0) 711 / 25706 - 300
e.mail [email protected]
 
www.hdm-stuttgart.de



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