Video introduction to issue 8

Introduction to the Special Issue onWireless Video

Mobile communications, the Internet, and other emerging consumer technologies continue to have a major impact on our personal and business lives. Increasing numbers of media centric devices now have integrated wireless functionalities, and video-based services are becoming increasingly important. However, longer-term adoption of wireless video will hinge on a number of issues: the business mode...

Introduction to special issue: Video games as research instruments

There is no denying the tremendous success of video games. This makes them fascinating objects of study in their own right. But in addition, it is clear that the rich variety of worlds they offer, makes them useful for research purposes as well. This is not a new idea. They have been used in research at least since the mid 90’s, when Kirsh and Maglio [1] used Tetris to investigate the differenc...

Introduction to the Issue on Perception Inspired Video Processing

Introduction to the Issue on Emerging Technologies for Video Compression

Introduction to Special Issue

Although recent frameworks for test validation have emphasized utilization as a key component (e.g. Bachman & Palmer, 2010; Chapelle, 2012; Kane, 1992), what happens in the sometimes messy contexts where assessments are carried out is often not documented. This is perhaps because test developers are more focused on defining and operationalizing test constructs than on issues of implementation. ...