Just over a year ago, AJKD launched an official blog, eAJKD (www.eajkd.org). The impetus was to provide a platform that could be more flexible, interactive, accessible, and nimble than the online repository of articles available at the journal’s website, www.ajkd.org. This was a substantial and novel undertaking, as at the time, no nephrology journals had blogs and, even today, only 9% of gener...

Using the example of three experimental museum sound installations, this paper discusses the translation into practice of the intention to make meaningful connections between diverse social positions and experiences. We use the term ‘dialogic’ to theorise these interactive intentions and show them at work in the content, development processes and form of the sound installations. Our discussion ...

Material written for traditional textbooks is increasingly being made available via online textbooks. Such material still uses text and drawings to explain concepts. In contrast, material written natively for the web can use less text and drawings, and instead use animations, responsive questions, and interactive exercises. This work compares the lesson effectiveness of electronic textbooks hav...

Current challenges require automation industry to be more flexible and tailored to a wide range of production scenarios. The trend shows up that the quantity of products is alternating, while the amount of possible product configurations increases. For this, manufacturing systems as well as control software applications have to be reconfigurable and reusable to meet these demands. The internati...

The OpenLearn site is an example of an Open Educational Resource (OER) providing units for free study and for re-use under the Creative Commons license. The primary focus of the site is content but it also offers social tools such as forums, personal journals, presence, and videoconferencing. The content can also support interactivity such as quizzes, opportunities for reflection, and interacti...

The OpenLearn site is an example of an Open Educational Resource (OER) providing units for free study and for re-use under the Creative Commons license. The primary focus of the site is content but it also offers social tools such as forums, personal journals, presence, and videoconferencing. The content can also support interactivity such as quizzes, opportunities for reflection, and interacti...

The use of Interactive Evolutionary Computation(IEC) is suitable to the development of art-creation aid system for beginners. This is because of important features of IEC, like the ability of optimizing with ambiguous evaluation measures, and not requiring special knowledge about artcreation. With the popularity of Consumer Generated Media, many beginners in term of art-creation are interested ...

Interactive fiction (often called “IF”) is a venerable thread of creative computing that includes Adventure, Zork, and the computer game The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy as well as innovative recent work. These programs are usually known as “games,” appropriately, but they can also be rich forms of text-based computer simulation, dialog systems, and examples of computational literary art. T...