Research Through Design: Twenty-First Century Makers and Materialities

Vygotsky in Twenty-First-Century research

Twenty-first century vaccines.

In the twentieth century, vaccination has been possibly the greatest revolution in health. Together with hygiene and antibiotics, vaccination led to the elimination of many childhood infectious diseases and contributed to the increase in disability-free life expectancy that in Western societies rose from 50 to 78-85 years (Crimmins, E. M. & Finch, C. E. 2006 Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 103, 498-5...

Twenty-First Century Assurance

Every aspect of the accounting profession is being pervasively affected by advances in information technology (IT). IT shifts power from producers (such as accountants and auditors) to consumers (such as investors, creditors, and other information users). Present and potential users of accounting and auditing services have increasing needs for relevant, reliable, and timely information, and IT ...

Twenty-First Century Piano

“The reinvigoration of the role of the human body” as John Richards recently described trends in using homemade electronics to move away from laptop performance [1] is mirrored in an ambition of instrumentalists to interact more closely with the electronic sounds they are helping to create. For these players, there has often been a one-way street of the ‘instrument feeds MAX patch’ paradigm and...

Virtual Organizations: The Business Design for the Twenty-First Century

The growing prominence of virtual organizations, such as Dell and Amazon.Com, has demonstrated the potential for virtual governance structures to achieve greater competitiveness than their more traditional counterparts. The designs of such organizations typically support three important characteristics: virtual customer interaction, virtual sourcing of complementary resources and assets from a ...