© The Ecological Society of America www.frontiersinecology.org T interplay between fine-scale patterns and processes and broad-scale dynamics is increasingly being recognized as key to understanding ecosystem dynamics, particularly as the number and magnitude of global change drivers increases over time (Huston 1999; Rodó et al. 2002; King et al. 2004). Cross-scale interactions (CSI) are proces...

The past decade has seen a remarkable resurgence of the old programme of finding more or less a priori axioms for the mathematical framework of quantum mechanics. The new impetus comes largely from quantum information theory; in contrast to work in the older tradition, which tended to concentrate on structural features of individual quantum systems, the newer work is marked by an emphasis on sy...

The landscape metaphor was one of the first methods used by the information visualization community to reorganize and depict document archives that are not inherently spatial. The motivation for the use of the landscape metaphor is that everyone intuitively understands landscapes. We critically examine the information visualization designer’s ontologies for implementing spatialized landscapes w...

One of the problems studied in human-computer interaction (HCI) research is the design of interfaces that improve user information selection and processing performance. Based on prior research findings this study proposes that information selection can be improved by using multiple, supplementary cues to encode information in interface design. The research is motivated by cue-summation theory. ...

Media richness theory argues that different media are more or less appropriate for different tasks. Adaptive structuration theory (AST) implies that technology users may creatively adapt technological structures to mitigate differences in richness. Social Information Processing theory (SIP) suggests a motivation and method guiding such technology adoption. In light of these theories, this paper...

What is the nature of instructional design? Is instructional design merely the practical application of learning theories to learning situations? What elements form the building blocks of instructional design theory and research? What assumptions about the nature of people and society are behind theories, principles, and practice? These questions occur in the context of international discussion...