Is better beautiful or is beautiful better? Exploring the relationship between beauty and category structure

Is better beautiful or is beautiful better? Exploring the relationship between beauty and category structure.

We evaluate two competing accounts of the relationship between beauty and category structure. According to the similarity-based view, beauty arises from category structure such that central items are favored due to their increased fluency. In contrast, the theory-based view holds that people's theories of beauty shape their perceptions of categories. In the present study, subjects learned to ca...

Medical data debates: big is better? Small is beautiful?

What is beautiful is usable

An experiment was conducted to test the relationships between users' perceptions of a computerized system's beauty and usability. The experiment used a computerized application as a surrogate for an Automated Teller Machine (ATM). Perceptions were elicited before and after the participants used the system. Pre-experimental measures indicate strong correlations between system's perceived aesthet...

Framelets—small is beautiful

The contribution introduces the notion of framelets. They are essentially small frameworks. Thus framelets can be easily understood and modified. As framelets are not aimed at complex application domains, they can also be assembled without the problems associated with the combination of large frameworks. Our first experiences with framelets demonstrate that these architectural building blocks a...

Small is beautiful.

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