Increased interactivity and improvements to theGigaSciencedatabase, GigaDB

GigaDB: promoting data dissemination and reproducibility

Often papers are published where the underlying data supporting the research are not made available because of the limitations of making such large data sets publicly and permanently accessible. Even if the raw data are deposited in public archives, the essential analysis intermediaries, scripts or software are frequently not made available, meaning the science is not reproducible. The GigaScie...

The case for increased animal production in iran to improve human diets and increased rural emoloyment

Interactivity: From Agents to Outcomes

In the world of distance learning, very few topics have generated as much debate as the construct of interactivity. Distance learning practitioners—particularly instructors and program administrators—seem to view interactivity as the defining attribute of a contemporary distance learning experience. That is, the interactivity enabled by two-way technologies providing real-time exchanges of audi...

What Interactivity Means to the User Essential Insights into and a Scale for Perceived Interactivity

The selection and use of media depend largely on how users perceive such media. A central aspect of the “new media” is their interactivity, but how users perceive this phenomenon has rarely been researched. This study provides an in-depth investigation into the perception component of interactivity and develops a compact scale for its measurement. According to psychological approaches, practica...

Instruments, Interactivity, and Inevitability

It is astonishing to think that a mere twenty years ago, real-time music production and performance was not only in a fledgling state with only primitive (such as the IRCAM 4X machine) or limited (like the Synclavier) capabilities, but was also the subject of very heated debate. At IRCAM in the early 1980’s, for instance, some (such as Luciano Berio) questioned whether any digital technology co...