5. Conclusions

Our starting point was the conviction that it was possible to find tools to better understand the process by which individuals make aesthetic judgments about products and objects, taking into account the influence of "cultural context". Such a project is not an easy one, partly because of the abundance of philosophical references that have never before been used in this sense. Another difficulty relates to the cross-fertilization and organization of this knowledge for operational purposes.

This approach corresponds to a real, but unexpressed, need among designers and ergonomists. Indeed, many of them found it difficult and/or embarrassing to express. This initial work responds, at least in part, to this latent need, and dispels the obstacles that could have led to this issue being relegated to the realm of the subjective. The proposed models can be presented as...