Aesthetics Presentation

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The Role of Aesthetics

in ComputerEngineering

A Case Study


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Introduction

Modern worlds innovative

ideas all started from a singleimagination.


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Introduction

Todays century is the Age of

Information and technology plays

a critical part in determining thegolden times of the era.

Computers were created to ease

life, to color it at the least.


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Introduction

The problem with todays

education is not realizing

the importance of

Aesthetics in the curriculum,

especially the course ofEngineering.


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Introduction

The aim of the researchers is

to determine the main

purpose of Aesthetics in the

field of Computer

Engineering.


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Main Objectives

To formulate the function of Aesthetics in

Hardware Engineering.

To develop the concepts supporting

Programming and Software Engineering withrelation to Aesthetics.

To identify the significance of Aesthetics to

Hardware-Software Integration.


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Aesthetics

Aesthetics is the theory of the

perceptibility, appreciation,

responsiveness, and enjoymentof the beautiful in art and nature(Cometa, Aquino and Santillana, n.d.).


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Aesthetics

Welsch (2003) summarized in his

paper that aesthetics is

considered as artistics, as anexplication of art with particular

attention to beauty.


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Aesthetics

It is the judgment of taste to cast

out what is beautiful.


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Aesthetics in Engineering

It is only important that the researchers

determine the significance of Aesthetics in the

field of engineering as a whole so as to

determine the extents of Aesthetics in the sub-fields of engineering. As stated:

Engineering involvement with aesthetics is vital

for the creation of innovative and successful

products in todays fast changing world.

(Faste, 1995)


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Aesthetics in Engineering

With todays world bringing innovations

that would not just suffice human

needs but also their taste, it is justimportant to consider Aesthetics in

the field of Engineering.


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Computer Engineering

TryEngineering (n.d.) has specified the

tasks accomplished by a computer

engineer. It stated that computerengineers analyze and evaluate

computer systems, both hardware

and software.


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Computer Engineering

Researchers have deducted that

Computer Engineering is divided into

three major fields: HardwareEngineering, Software Engineering

and Hardware-Software Integration.


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Hardware Engineering

Hardware engineering tackles the

design and functionality of the

hardware devices and how they willbe properly built to be able to perform

functions connected to software


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Hardware Engineering and

Aesthetics

The job of the computer engineers is to

ensure that their products are well-

defined with their features. Designcomplements that of aesthetic value

of a product for this is what affects

the taste of a human being.


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Software Engineering

Software engineering

concerns itself to the

programming of a system.


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Software Engineering and

Aesthetics

As discussed in the design of hardware

engineering, humans will tend to use

programs that will be elegant in theirgraphic user interface. It is already a

norm in the human mind to utilize

things that are perceived to bebeautiful in their own tastes.


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Hardware-Software Integration

Hardware-software integration is

the proper connection of the

hardware and the software.


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Company Profile

The interviewee of the researchers for

the conduct of the case study is Engr.

Mario Andal, Systems Administratorof the Information Technology Center

(ITC) of the University of Batangas.


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Role of Aesthetics in Computer

Engineering

Computer engineering, as defined by the

interviewee, is the combination of computer

science and electrical engineering, both are

needed to create software and hardware.Computer Engineering is involved from

designing Microprocessors to circuit design.

This field of engineering not only focuses on

how computer systems themselves work, butalso how they integrate into the larger picture.


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Engineering

Aesthetics is really important in any software or

hardware products, because the user will

enjoy doing his work or job just by looking at

the thing he/she is using, [utilizing] beauty [forsatisfaction].


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Engineering

Developing software [or] programs

must be eye-catching.


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Engineering

We choose the vendor that has

products with high standards and

high quality.


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Engineering

It (Aesthetics) is important [for] us

Computer Engineers. It makes

our life colorful, [and it allows usto do] what [is] best, and that is

computer engineering.


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Synthesis

Computer engineering has been defined as an

analysis of computer systems both hardware

and software. While the interviewee related

the field with Computer Science and ElectricalEngineering, it can be deemed that computer

engineering covers hardware, as the concern

of Electrical Engineering, and software, as the

concern of Computer Science.


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Synthesis

It was earlier defined that Aesthetics is the

philosophy of art and beauty, or the philosophy

of art and the aesthetic. Thus, the case study

was centered on how beauty affected thepractice of computer engineering.


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Synthesis

The interview has stressed out that the design of

the hardware devices affect greatly the level of

satisfaction of the users to the extent that he

will have to choose sellers that produce high-quality raw materials to produce high-quality

products.


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Synthesis

The quality of the raw materials to be used was

highly emphasized by the interviewee as it

was pointed out in Chapter II. Before computer

engineers can build any product, they mustfirst assure that the raw materials to be used

are evaluated properly and ensured that they

will function.


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Synthesis

Both literature presented concerning software

engineering and interviewees point of view

regarding the application of Aesthetics in

software engineering pertained to how theusers would satisfactorily respond to the

developed software to the extent that will it be

user-friendly enough or not.


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Synthesis

The elegance of the program could

critically determine the functionality of

the software itself as discussed in theprevious chapters.


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Synthesis

The researchers have assumed that the

hardware-software integration cannot

create the significance of Aesthetics in

Computer Engineering for its conceptsare purely theoretical and scientific that

the researchers limited it to how the

software and hardware were individuallymade to create aesthetic impacts to the

users or consumers.


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Synthesis

The researchers have obtained results

centered on how the users will respond to

the products constructed for it is only

through there that Aesthetics can beclearly seen with effects and functions.


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Conclusion

From the data gathered and

analyzed, the researchers

have formulated the followingconclusions:


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Conclusion

1. In hardware engineering, Aesthetics

pose significance to the creation of the

hardware devices with the users level

of satisfaction of the hardware and the

utility of the product.


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Conclusion

2. In software engineering, the

programs developed are created for

the users to efficiently maximize its

use. Aesthetics enters the scene with

the graphical user interface affecting

the user-friendliness of the program

and how the users will be satisfied

with programs developed.


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Conclusion

3. Computer engineering utilizes

aesthetic judgment to create end-

products that would suffice the taste of

the users and the level of satisfaction

of the users.


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Conclusion

4. With the vague definition of Aesthetics

defined in the previous, the aesthetic value

and judgment of taste greatly affect the

decision of the users to appreciate thoseproduced by the Computer Engineers. It is

through there that Aesthetic greatly defines

the art in Computer Engineering. The role of

Aesthetics is to ensure that the products will

cognitively and intuitively satisfy the users of

the software and hardware devices.

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