Prototyping Across the 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

Reconstructing the Paradigm: Teaching Across the Disciplines

In this article, Caroline Brown, a literature professor who focuses on American and African Diasporic writing, and Alexia Pollack, a biology professor with expertise in neuropharmacology, recount their experiences teaching across the disciplines in one another's respective classrooms, finding points of intersection and divergence, and creating classroom dialogues from the resultant encounters. ...

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...

Creative Prototyping as an Inter-Dimensional Portal Between Disciplines

This paper uses a narrative literary study to discuss how the science fiction prototyping method has been applied so far in different disciplines, including technology and engineering research (specifically Intelligent Environment research), foresight, futuresand business studies. Then the paper presents very similar practices in human-computer interaction, entitled as e.g. critical design, spe...