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Following the User's Footsteps : = A Data-Driven Framework for Measuring and Modeling Elegant Design in Engineering.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Following the User's Footsteps :/
Reminder of title:	A Data-Driven Framework for Measuring and Modeling Elegant Design in Engineering.
Author:	Nikou, Tina.
Description:	1 online resource (224 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-11(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-11A(E).
Subject:	Design. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9781369885279

Following the User's Footsteps : = A Data-Driven Framework for Measuring and Modeling Elegant Design in Engineering.
Nikou, Tina.

Following the User's Footsteps :A Data-Driven Framework for Measuring and Modeling Elegant Design in Engineering. - 1 online resource (224 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-11(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)

Includes bibliographical references

Elegance and elegant design is a widely sought property in different disciplines, especially in engineering where solutions to design problems have many different factors that influence their efficiency and usability. However, the lack of literature on this construct and consensus on the definition of elegance limits our understanding of its role and applications. The present research study applies various qualitative and quantitative statistical methods to provide a valid and reliable scale for measuring elegant design in engineering. The measures of elegant design are developed from a comprehensive review of the literature and filtered by expert judges' ratings. The resulting elegant design scale is validated through exploratory and confirmatory analysis and tested by comparing the scale's results against subjective assessments. Results from this research study are further applied to build prescriptive and predictive models of elegance using generalized linear regression, K nearest neighbors and random forests methods.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9781369885279Subjects--Topical Terms:

595500
Design.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

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