Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "Complexity"

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    • Practical Applications of Cosmology to Human Society 

      Chaisson, Eric J. (Scientific Research Publishing, Inc,, 2014)
      Complex systems throughout Nature display structures and functions that are built and maintained, at least in part, by optimal energies flowing through them—not specific, ideal values, rather ranges in energy rate density ...

    • Predicting users' first impressions of website aesthetics with a quantification of perceived visual complexity and colorfulness 

      Reinecke, Katharina; Yeh, Tom; Miratrix, Luke Weisman; Mardiko, Rahmatri; Zhao, Yuechen; Liu, Jenny Jiaqi; Gajos, Krzysztof Z (ACM Press, 2013)
      Users make lasting judgments about a website's appeal within a split second of seeing it for the first time. This first impression is influential enough to later affect their opinions of a site's usability and trustworthiness. ...

    • Quantifying visual preferences around the world 

      Reinecke, Katharina; Gajos, Krzysztof Z (Association of Computing Machinery, 2014)
      Website aesthetics have been recognized as an influential moderator of people's behavior and perception. However, what users perceive as "good design" is subject to individual preferences, questioning the feasibility of ...