Introduction to the Special Issue on “Designing the Robot Body: Critical Perspectives on Affective Embodied Interaction”

Introduction to the Special Issue on Human-Robot Interaction

Introduction to This Special Issue on Human-Robot Interaction

Human–computer interaction (HCI), as a field, has made great strides toward understanding and improving our interactions with computer-based technologies. From the early explorations of direct interaction with computers, we have reached the point where usability, usefulness, and an appreciation of technology’s social impact, including its risks, are widely accepted goals in computing. HCI resea...

Designing for human-food interaction: An introduction to the special issue on 'food and interaction design'

While food has appeared in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) research to some extent from the turn to everyday activities, in its own right HCI research on food, or 'Human–Food Interaction' (HFI), has emerged as an area of significant interest in the HCI community in the last few years (see for example Choi et al., 2012; Choi et al. 2013; Comber et al., 2012a, 2012b). In these few years, 'food' ...

Introduction to the special issue: perspectives on research libraries

Purpose – The aim of this article is to introduce the special issue of Journal of Documentation focusing on perspectives on research libraries. Design/methodology/approach – The paper outlines the theme of the issue and its underlying problems. Findings – The traditional services of research libraries may diffuse to other kinds of institutions. There is, however, a need for information speciali...

Perspectives on working memory: introduction to the special issue.

More than 40 years ago, Baddeley and Hitch (1974) published an article with a wealth of experimentation and theorization on working memory, the small amount of information held in mind and often used within cognitive processes such as language comprehension and production, reasoning, and problem solving. We honor this seminal accomplishment in the present special issue, and take this opportunit...