Information specialist for a coming age (1)

The Coming Age of Calm Technology[1]

In the past fifty years of computation there have been two great trends in this relationship: the mainframe relationship, and the PC relationship. Today the Internet is carrying us through an era of widespread distributed computing towards the relationship of ubiquitous computing, characterized by deeply imbedding computation in the world. Ubiquitous computing will require a new approach to fit...

Telerehabilitation: a coming of age.

Coming across information serendipitously - Part 1: A process model

Purpose: This research sought to gain a detailed understanding of how researchers come across information serendipitously, grounded in real-world examples. This research was undertaken to enrich our theoretical understanding of this slippery phenomenon. Design/methodology/approach: Semi-structured Critical Incident interviews were conducted with 28 interdisciplinary researchers. Interviewees we...

Coming of Age

Emotion Coming of Age

A s the articles in this special issue attest to, emotion is finally coming of age. Affect, as many of the authors suggest, serves a function—it aids survival, and affect regulation is a key human motive. People seek emotions because what emotion makes them feel—the conscious feelings of such things as pain and pleasure—aids survival by promoting approach and avoidance and other action tendenci...