Special Issue: Gut Bacteria-Mucus Interaction

Special Issue

Special Issue on Human Work Interaction Design

IFIP 13.6 Human Work Interaction Design (HWID) is a working group, which aims to establish relationships between empirical work-domain studies and Human Computer Interaction (HCI) design. Our concern is to extend the long tradition of HCI to study the connections between interaction design and the work context, in the light of the fact that the world that we work in has become much more digital...

Special Issue: Gut Microbial Communities in Health and Disease

The complex and ancient relationships between animal hosts and the microbial communities that inhabit their digestive tracts have become the focus of intense research in recent years. As a result, our understanding of gut microbial ecology and of the evolutionary and physiologic impacts of gut microbial communities in animal hosts has grown markedly. Indeed, members of the gut microbiota have n...

New Trends in Human Computer Interaction J.UCS Special Issue

The Human-Computer Interaction field and all its concerning research areas are constantly changing and evolving to achieve a better perception of computer systems in general from the end-users' point of view. This area is getting more and more importance when developing computer systems of any kind. In this moment we can consider it as a mature field in which we can find very useful and ground ...

Secretory IgA is Concentrated in the Outer Layer of Colonic Mucus along with Gut Bacteria

Antibodies of the secretory IgA (SIgA) class comprise the first line of antigen-specific immune defense, preventing access of commensal and pathogenic microorganisms and their secreted products into the body proper. In addition to preventing infection, SIgA shapes the composition of the gut microbiome. SIgA is transported across intestinal epithelial cells into gut secretions by the polymeric i...