A n interesting question for any of us is why we chose our current profession. As a reader of this magazine, there’s a good chance you’re working in the field of pervasive or mobile computing, and the inspiration for your choice is perhaps something we have in common: a fascination with gadgets, a tendency to shop for electronic odds and ends, and an interest in turning fictional devices into r...

doi: 10.1188/16.ONF.131-132 The end of each year and the beginning of the next usually involves the media printing lists of what was talked about in the past year and what is going to be “hot” in the coming 12 months. The world of oncology is no different. MedPageToday conducted a nonscientific survey of readers (Sergel, 2015), asking oncologists what game changers they saw in 2015. Seventy-fou...

ions, a characteristic that encouraged the women studied to take on responsibility for household management. Alternatively, perhaps the organization of the domestic economy encouraged the women in the study to develop expertise in ‘ahead-of-time’ appliances as a result of their responsibility for household management. The data on oven timers and VCRs may offer the best suggestion of the underly...

How does the nervous system coordinate the control of different behaviors? For example, different rhythmic behaviors that normally function independently may need to work together under certain circumstances. One example of this phenomenon is the way that our respiratory rate goes up when we start running. Vertebrate breathing frequency increases immediately with locomotor activity, so it’s not...

For me swarms and most of all swarms of fishes are a fascinating phenomenon. I am a designer and my area of research is design theory and most of all strategic design. The task of strategic design is to implement design as the corporate strategy. During the last years the awareness for design has increased. More and more companies have realized that they can benefit a lot from design. At the sa...