There are two competing accounts for explaining Britain's technological transformation during the Industrial Revolution. One sees it as the inevitable outcome of a largely exogenous increase in the supply of new ideas and ways of thinking. The other sees it as a demand side response to economic incentives – that in Britain, it paid to invent the technology of the Industrial Revolution. However,...

In stereo vision, eyes capture two different views of a three-dimensional object. Retinal images are fused in the brain in a way that their disparities (or parallaxes) are transformed into depth perception, yielding a three-dimensional representation of the object in the observer’s mind. The process of transforming parallax into depth perception is not entirely understood. The main question ref...

This article presents a senior-executive perspective on the “grand vision” of a Next Generation Enterprise (NGE), its organizational and individual impacts, and the organizational and technological challenges associated with implementing this vision. It is based upon discussions that took place at a CIO Panel, consisting of nine senior executives from a wide cross section of organizations and o...

A natural way of conceptualizing ambient intelligence is by picturing an active environment with access to perceptual input, not via eyes and ears, but by their technological counterparts. Computer vision is an essential part of building contextaware environments that adapt and anticipate their human users by understanding their behavior. This thematic issue explores state-of-the-art computer v...

Vision-based user interfaces are technologies where human motion is detected by a camera or cameras and is used as input. In this paper we describe advantages and disadvantages, technological issues, and related research of vision-based user interfaces as well as examples of 3D input interface systems that we developed.

What are the factors affecting in ICT (Information and Communication Technology) development? This is not a question to which there is an answer accepted by everyone. IS literature gives different answers where factors vary from technology and organisation to human factors; separately and in interaction. In this paper this question is answered from computing professionals' perspective. It is ba...

In recent years, there have been great expectations for vision systems (computer vision). They are useful in various fields including surveillance cameras for crime prevention, appearance inspection of manufactured goods, CT scans and tissue examination in medicine, robot vision, and analysis and evaluation of movement in sports studies as well as image searching on the Internet. Furthermore, a...

Background: Some post-LASIK patients complain of blurry distance vision months after refractive surgery, despite good corneal healing and negligible refractive error. We postulated that perceiving blur in the absence of refractive error or significant monocular aberrations might result from poor binocular control. Binocular vision testing in a series of such patients revealed convergence proble...