This Article analyzes disparate impact claims under the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA) in light of Supreme Court’s decision Young v. United Parcel Service, Inc. In Young, Court interpreted PDA to provide plaintiffs who bring pregnancy-related treatment pursuant Title VII with additional protections that non-pregnancy-related do not receive. The court reasoned this interpretation flowed from...

We are in a historical moment when virtual worlds are coming into being as a significant mode of technologically mediated sociality. Alongside and within these virtual worlds, a new research community is in formation, one whose growth will only be stimulated by the continuing emergence of new virtual worlds. This community includes a wide range of researchers, from those who have studied virtua...

The challenges of eCollaboration for SMEs start with the decision to collaborate, and continues with the incorporation of enabling web technologies. This paper focuses on factors that influence eCollaboration by studying two collaborative groups, one in the toolmaking industry and one in the IT industry. Results indicate the need for an additional factor of independent facilitation and coordina...

This paper reports on an experimental process in which a prototype was developed of an interactive design collaboratorium, in cooperation with a group of usability designers. In a longterm research cooperation, this usability group has changed its work practice in order to work in the design collaboratorium. The design collaboratorium was developed to move usability design away from a lab towar...

Although academics are increasingly expected to undertake studies of their practice, particularly where this involves the use of learning technology, experience to date suggests that meeting this expectation has proved difficult. This paper attempts to explain this difficulty. After reviewing literature that provides a rationale for practitioner evaluation, the experiences of three projects (EF...

In an attempt to increase power to detect genetic associations with brain phenotypes derived from human neuroimaging data, we recently conducted a large-scale, genome-wide association meta-analysis of hippocampal, brain, and intracranial volume through the Enhancing NeuroImaging Genetics through Meta-Analysis (ENIGMA) consortium. Here, we present a freely available online interactive tool, Enig...

Simulation is a critically important phase of modern computer hardware design. Lacking practical formal methods for proving complex systems correct, designers must run tests on simulation models to demonstrate correctness before chips and boards are fabricated. Using a large-scale model, such as an entire CPU, at a low level of representation, such as the logic gate level, is an e cient way to ...

This article moves beyond a history of domestic home video fitness programs to explore digital fitness with specific attention to the self-monitored fitness ‘movement’ and the hardware and software that facilitate its proliferation. The research in this area is currently conducted through preliminary small scale studies, alongside some flawed but still (inadvertently) useful undergraduate and g...

In many parts of the world food security is at risk. One of the biophysical root causes of falling per-capita food production is the declining quality and quantity of soils. To reverse this trend and increase soil fertility soil and plant nutrients have to be replenished. This review provides a literature survey of experiences of using multi-nutrient rock fertilizers for soil fertility enhancem...

Due to a number of similarities between user-centred design (UCD) and agile development, coupled with an appreciation that developers are rarely usability experts, it seems attractive to integrate these two approaches. However, although agile methods share some of the same aims as UCD, there are also distinct differences. These differences have made the use of these methods on development proje...