Bridging Disciplines

Conversational agents in virtual worlds: Bridging disciplines

This paper examines the effective deployment of conversational agents in virtual worlds from the perspective of researchers/practitioners in cognitive psychology, computing science, learning technologies and engineering. From a cognitive perspective, the major challenge lies in the coordination and management of the various channels of information associated with conversation/ communication and...

Genes, brain, and behavior: bridging disciplines.

With excitement surrounding the publication of the human genome, scientists have set out to uncover the functions of specific genes. This special issue on Genes, Brain, and Behavior attempts to present research strategies that connect major avenues of genetic research across disciplines. For example, anatomical information provided by brain imaging can serve as a convenient link between anatomi...

The Challenge of Bridging Between Disciplines

This issue of JAMIA contains the first of two sets of papers4 coming out of the Human Brain Project . With one exception, these papers are written by people who are grounded in neuroinformatics (the intersection of neuroscience and bioinformatics). They are working on problems that are analogous to the ones being tackled by researchers in biomedical informatics. Nonetheless, they come at these ...

Bridging different perspectives of the physiological and mathematical disciplines.

The goal of this report is to discuss educational approaches for bridging the different perspectives of the physiological and mathematical disciplines. These approaches can enhance the learning experience for physiology, medical, and mathematics students and simultaneously act to stimulate mathematical/physiological/clinical interdisciplinary research. While physiology education incorporates ma...

Virus Dynamics and Evolution: Bridging Scales and Disciplines