Interfaces: in fluid mechanics and across disciplines

Olfactory consciousness across disciplines

Although vision is the de facto model system of consciousness research, studying olfactory consciousness has its own advantages, as this collection of articles emphatically demonstrates. One advantage of olfaction is its computational and phenomenological simplicity, which facilitates the identification of basic principles. Other researchers study olfactory consciousness not because of its simp...

Contents Ontologies across disciplines

Language and Learning across the Disciplines

Language and Learning Across the Disciplines is a joint publication of Georgia Southern University and the Illinois Institute of Technology, and follows the NCTE guidelines for non-sexist language. Major funding for LLAD is provided by the Academic Resource Center of the Illinois Institute of Technology; additional support is provided by Georgia Southern University and Washington State Universi...

Exploring Cognitive Diversity Across Disciplines and Cultures

Since the cognitive revolution, a widely held assumption has been that—whereas content may vary across cultures—cognitive processes would be universal, especially those on the more basic levels. Even if scholars do not fully subscribe to this assumption, they often conceptualize, or tend to investigate, cognition as if it were universal (Henrich, Heine, & Norenzayan, 2010). The insight that uni...

Triangulation within and across HCI disciplines

How should we evaluate interactive software? Gray and Salzman (1998) examine five influential studies that compare methods of evaluating usability. In a carefully-argued critique, they identify numerous threats to validity and point out serious flaws in both the designs and claims made in each study. I think there will be various reactions to this article. Some people will react with alarm, con...