Articles

 

Da Silva, O., Crilly, N., & Hekkert, P. (In press). Beauty in efficiency: An experimental enquiry into the principle of maximum effect for minimum means. Empirical Studies of the Arts.

Da Silva, O., Crilly, N., & Hekkert, P. (2016). Maximum effect for minimum means: The aesthetics of efficiency. Design Issues, 32(1), 41–51.

Da Silva, O., Crilly, N., & Hekkert, P. (2015). How people’s appreciation of products is affected by their knowledge of the designers’ intentions. International Journal of Design, 9(2), 21–33.

Da Silva, O., Crilly, N., & Hekkert, P. (2014b). Intentions and the aesthetics of artifacts. In A. Kozbelt, Proceedings of IAEA 2014 (pp. 148–152). New York: Hunter College of the City of New York. (Awarded the Robert Francès Prize: Most Outstanding Student Research Contribution).

Da Silva, O., Crilly, N., & Hekkert, P. (2014a). Can a light switch be beautiful? Aesthetic appreciation of products as means. In K. Niedderer & Y.-K. Lim, Proceedings of DRS 2014 (pp. 1691–1692). Umeå: Umeå Institute of Design.

Da Silva, O., Crilly, N., & Hekkert, P. (2013). Aesthetic appreciation of products: The effect of ideas underlying design. In K. Sugiyama, Proceedings of IASDR 2013 (Vol. 2, pp. 2558–2566). Tokyo: Shibaura Institute of Technology.

As co-author:

Post, R., Da Silva, O., & Hekkert, P. (2015). The beauty in product-service systems. In V. Popovic, A. Blackler, D.-B. Luh, N. Nimkulrat, B. Kraal, & Y. Nagai (Eds.), Proceedings of IASDR 2015 (pp. 1717–1730). Brisbane: Queensland University of Technology.