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Simple as it can be, but not simpler: Perceived elegance as effective complexity in Interface Design
No full textElegant Design is a key determinant of positive consumer experience and a differentiating factor on the marketplace. However, research on product aesthetics suffers from the lack of metrics to assess elegance and insufficient understanding of what stimuli configurations are associated with it. In this paper we assess elegance as Effective Complexity, a metric capturing the complexity of an interface in terms of the regularities perceived by users. We offer empirical evidence that Effective Complexity is strongly correlated with perceived elegance and actual effort in the use of a new product and to Berlyne’s curve of hedonic pleasure determined by the combination of novel and familiar stimuli
The age of digital entrepreneurship
Full text linkUnderstanding the circumstances and reasons which facilitate digital entrepreneurship (DE) is of interest to academic research, and guides business practice, as well as public policies aiming at supporting this phenomenon given its positive impacts in terms of job creation and economic growth. We define some relevant concepts and briefly map current research using a perspective that focuses on the way digital entrepreneurs create digital value by acquiring, processing, and distributing digital information. Through the adoption of a digital information processing perspective, we provide a micro-level approach to research on digital entrepreneurship (DE) that complements existing literature on DE focused at the systemic level (digital entrepreneurship ecosystems and in the digital platforms economy). We show how these two approaches can be jointly used to identify major research streams on DE: digital business models, the digital entrepreneurship process and the creation of digital start-ups, DE in digital platforms, and entrepreneurial digital ecosystems. As is the case with existing DE frameworks, our approach concurs in putting emphasis on the new collaborative and social dynamics enabled by digital tools to support knowledge sharing and facilitate opportunity recognition
Modeling organizational learning through intelligent agents based systems: an Ant Colony Optimization simulation model
No full textThe role of aesthetic reasoning in knowledge management: the case of elegant systems architecture design
No full textNonaka and Takeuchi foundational work brought tacit knowledge to the attention of the Knowledge Management (KM) community. During the same years, research in cognitive science was offering new insights on how tacit knowledge operates by highlighting the role of visual perception and aesthetic appreciation. Despite these developments, the relationship between tacit knowledge and aesthetics has received scarce attention in KM literature. Drawing from studies in Neuro-Aesthetics, Gestalt psychology, Art critique and Design, we focus on the relationship between aesthetics and ambiguity resolution and adopt as empirical unit engineering systems representations. We show that more effective system representations can be achieved through the application of a set of aesthetic principles supporting the achievement of an optimal level of complexity in the representation (effective complexity). The empirical findings provide evidence that more aesthetically pleasant system representations built following this approach leads to the design of both more elegant and performant systems
Reply structure and participation in online conversations enabled by argumentation platforms: A real world experiment of collective deliberation in e-democracy
No full textIn this paper we report evidence from a collective deliberation experiment in which the supporters of a political party were asked to debate online about ways to reform the electoral law. We compared a forum with an argumentation platform, an online collaboration tool that supports the construction of a collective map representing the debate in terms of issues, proposals, pros and cons. We analyze the structural proprieties of the reply networks generated in the two conditions. Our findings show that forum generated more redundant ideas and highly central speakers, whereas the argumentation platform tested in this study favored viewing and rating of others’ posts, produced more arguments per idea, and promoted brokerage between users belonging to different subgroups
Entrepreneurship competitiveness and local development
No full textProceedings from the RENT conference, Naples, November 200
Designing online collaboration for the individual and social good: A collective argumentation approach
No full textIn this paper we introduce and evaluate DebateHub, a new online discussion platform aimed at helping groups to share information to solve an issue via online argumentation. We test alternative visual widgets designed to provide the users with increased visibility and understanding of the content and interaction generated through their interaction. We introduce several user experience metrics including mutual understanding, quality of collaboration, and usability to systematically assess discussion-based collaboration. Finally, we compare alternative designs to identify which widgets' combination performs better with respect to the selected metrics. Our results show that visual augmentation produces better users' experience up to a certain point, after which the provision of extra visual feedback lowers the quality of the user experience. We offer our approach as an example of IS human-centered design in which the design of the platform features is driven by metrics associated with users' well-being and technology usefulness
The evaluation of organizational resources and innovation capabilities of software small firms
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