114 research outputs found
Entrepreneurship competitiveness and local development
No full textProceedings from the RENT conference, Naples, November 200
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
MODELING ORGANIZATIONAL PROCESSES THROUGH AGENTE-BASED MODELS: AN APPLICATION OF ANT COLONY SYSTEM TO SIMULATE ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING
No full text3-D Numerical calculation of the local entropy generation rates in a radial compressor stage
No full textModeling organizational learning through intelligent agents based systems: an Ant Colony Optimization simulation model
No full textReply 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
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