Interest in Complex Novelty

Designing for Interest and Novelty Motivating Design Agents

This paper is concerned with the motivation of design agents to promote the exploration of design spaces. A general form of motivation common to designers is a curiosity to discover interesting designs. This paper presents computational models of interest and curiosity based on the detection of novelty. We illustrate the behaviour of our model of interest in emergent properties of a design and ...

Complex cocktails: the evolutionary novelty of venoms.

Venoms have evolved on numerous occasions throughout the animal kingdom. These 'biochemical weapon systems' typically function to facilitate, or protect the producing animal from, predation. Most venomous animals remain unstudied despite venoms providing model systems for investigating predator-prey interactions, molecular evolution, functional convergence, and novel targets for pharmaceutical ...

Identifying Regions of Interest in Complex Imagery

We develop methods for manipulation and 2 Measures of Importance display of multidimensional data objects. These ~ methods assist in the identification of precise Measures of inportance take a variety of forms in multisubregions of interest when the data objects dimensional data objects. Examples include edges, exare extremely large and complex. Our results extend previous work in scientific vi...

Functional Interest Advocacy in Modern Complex Litigation

Novelty and conflict in the categorization of complex stimuli.

We manipulated categorical typicality and the presence of conflicting information as participants categorized multifeatured artificial animals. In Experiment 1, rule-irrelevant features were correlated with particular categories during training. In the test phase, participants applied a one-dimensional rule to stimuli with rule-irrelevant features that were category-congruent, category-incongru...