The article examines in detail the significance of astonishment work G. K. Chesterton. In literary studies, this aspect his has never been considered detail. research material was essays, short stories, biographies, novels and treatises English writer. interrelation with motives miracle, joy, love, paradise is shown. connection motive astonishment, author touches on paradox technique, which sig...

A usability requirement for interactive layout assistance systems is the principle of least astonishment (Borning et al. 1987) which states that the system should arrange the layout in a way that conforms to the user’s expectations. This paper presents a framework for transformation-based similarity between two-dimensional spatial configurations. Here, similarity is intended to measure the user...