Stepping into the Void

Stepping into the Interactive Drama

Achieving a successful Interactive Drama where the user can act as a character in the story requires not only finding an algorithmic solution for combining interactivity and narrativity, but also interfacing those algorithms with the user. This paper focuses on the way in which the user can choose the actions of the character. Three specific issues are discussed: the variety of choices proposed...

Stepping into the third dimension.

Recent advances in optical-sectioning microscopy, along with novel fluorescent proteins and probes, give us the tools to image molecules and their interactions in space and time. Investigators using these tools routinely collect multichannel three-dimensional (3D) images and time series, but analyzing such complex datasets requires sophisticated visualization techniques. We here provide an over...

Stepping Into the Wide World

dential treatment that benefits both substance abusers and their children. While both authors share a focus on treating families, they do so from opposite poles of the research-practice spectrum, and bridging the distance is important to both. Fals-Stewart's intervention has performed well in studies over 20 years, but has yet to be widely adopted by community clinics. Jackson's program is high...

Stepping into Cooperative Buildings

If we are stepping out of windows, what are we stepping into? We suggest it is into cooperative buildings. For the foreseeable future, at least, we can identify two major characteristics of the cooperative building. The spaces of the building will be augmented in various ways, providing an ambient environment that bridges spatial discontinuities in workgroups and provides a continuous window in...

Blood disorders stepping into the limelight.