An Invitation to Work – Editors’ Introduction

Dynamic Collective Work [Guest editors' introduction]

Schahram Dustdar Vienna University of Technology The Internet has completely changed the way in which data is circulated, and has rapidly shifted us from a world of paper documents to a world of online documents, databases, and provenance systems.1 This has also helped to increase the size and complexity of systems that support today’s globally distributed, rapidly changing and agile businesses...

Guest Editors' Introduction: An Introduction to Interactive Sonification

subset of the topic of auditory display , has developed rapidly in recent decades. It brings together interests from the areas of data mining, exploratory data analysis, human–computer interfaces, and computer music. Sonification presents information by using sound (particularly nonspeech), so that the user of an auditory display obtains a deeper understanding of the data or processes under inv...

An Invitation from the Editors of Cardio-Oncology

Advances in cancer treatments have brought hope to patients with these diseases once thought to be incurable. However, these same treatments can inadvertently harm healthy cells and affect systems unrelated to the cancer, especially the cardiovascular system [1]. A precise definition of cardiotoxicity is still lacking [2]. However, an overwhelming body of evidence has established that patients ...

Introduction: Editors’ Introduction to Interacting with Presence

This volume arose from a longstanding conviction that our subjective experience of information technology is profoundly affected by the extent to which we feel ourselves to be really present in the mediated worlds that the technology makes available to us. ‘Presence’ is just this “feeling of being inside the mediated world”. It is a crucial and increasingly necessary element in both design and ...

An Introduction to Sociolinguistics