Editor's Introduction: Contemporary Issues in Professional Work with Groups

Dynamic Collective Work [Guest editors' introduction]

Schahram Dustdar Vienna University of Technology The Internet has completely changed the way in which data is circulated, and has rapidly shifted us from a world of paper documents to a world of online documents, databases, and provenance systems.1 This has also helped to increase the size and complexity of systems that support today’s globally distributed, rapidly changing and agile businesses...

People with disabilities and social work: historical and contemporary issues.

From the earliest recorded history, people with disabilities have been ostracized, rejected, and discriminated against in society. Although social work has a history rich in advocacy for oppressed people, the profession has been hesitant to become involved with people with disabilities. This article addresses historical and contemporary issues concerning disability. Recent developments in the d...

Theoretical Issues in Stimulus-Response Compatibility: Editors' Introduction

It all began in the mid-1950s. Although the term stimulus-response compatibility had been coined and already introduced by Small in 1951 (see Small, 1990), the real spark for compatibility research were the now classic papers by Fitts and Seeger (1953) and Fitts and Deininger (1954). The important f'mding of Fitts and colleagues was that human performance is not only affected by characteristics...

Guest Editors' Introduction: Professional Software Engineering-Fact or Fiction?

Introduction: Editors’ Introduction to Interacting with Presence

This volume arose from a longstanding conviction that our subjective experience of information technology is profoundly affected by the extent to which we feel ourselves to be really present in the mediated worlds that the technology makes available to us. ‘Presence’ is just this “feeling of being inside the mediated world”. It is a crucial and increasingly necessary element in both design and ...