Better information leads to better design. In landscape design, the designers care f o r what the plans will affect the urban more than what their plans will look like. In this paper, we discuss some key techniques in a GIs based landscape design system. With the advantage of the GIs, designers can make better decisions. A protorype named landscape evaluation system (LES) has been implemented. ...

1875-9521/$ see front matter 2011 International doi:10.1016/j.entcom.2011.03.009 In this introduction to the special issue of Entertainment Computing on the new TV landscape, we introduce interactive television (iTV) research as one of the pillars in the field of entertainment computing. Although entertainment computing has been associated mainly with video-games, there is also more than a coup...

This research aims to test a scalable and transferable Geographic Information System (GIS)-based evaluation methodology for the identification, quantification and assessment of multi-functional landscape features. The evaluation of multi-functional features is one of the key tasks required when it comes to identifying the values that people attribute to landscapes, according to the principles o...

Little is known about the effects of the level of fulfillment of the IT professional’s psychological contract on their innovative work and organizational citizenship behaviors. Using psychological contract and social information processing theories, this article proposes to answer the research question: How does the level of fulfillment of the IT professionals’ psychological contract affect the...

At a time when both the landscape of everyday life and the choices available to us there are increasingly conditioned by ubiquitous information processing systems, it seems wise to articulate some general principles guiding their ethical design and deployment. I here enunciate five broad guidelines for the designers of such systems, including recommendations that they be devised in such a way a...

The prosperity of online shopping has led e-commerce vendors to provide increasingly rich information, particularly for experience products, to enhance consumers‘ shopping experience and satisfaction. However, there is little awareness that consumers may not be able to process all the information available because of human beings‘ limited capacity to process information. Online shoppers could b...

Analysis of information utilisation (AIU) is a method for specifying how information entities encountered in information analysis are being physically manipulated in the work situation undergoing analysis. It focuses especially on factors affecting cognitive load. The method supports the human-computer interface designer with relevant and appropriate information structured specifically for a do...

Added: 25 Apr 2013) The need for a generative theory (Updated 19 Apr 2013) Summary so far The need for virtual machinery as well as physical/chemical machinery The need for meta-semantic competences Developmental trajectories in physical and virtual machinery Autism: A Different Sort of Information-Processing What does all this have to do with Nadia? Note added 30 Mar 2013: Low level visual pro...