The wonder of trivial machines

Systems Research and Behavioral Science

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 771-778

  Gage, Stephen A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Wates House   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Architecture; Delight; Non trivial machine

Indexed keywords

DELIGHT; NON-TRIVIAL; PHYSICAL ARCHITECTURE;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 33846314666     PISSN: 10927026     EISSN: 10991743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sres.763     Document Type: Article

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