This paper introduces ‘The Aesthetic Experience Prism’, a framework for studying how components of aesthetic experience materialize in the model’s of interaction of novel musical interfaces as well as how the role of aesthetics could be made more explicit in the processes of designing interaction for musical technologies. The Aesthetic Experience Prism makes use of Arthur Danto’s framework of a...

EuroSDR (former OEEPE) has embarked on distance education. Short courses related to three of its recent research projects were offered in 2002 and will be run again in 2004 together with a forth course. ITC has contributed a course on active sensor technology for digital terrain relief modelling. The paper reports on course design and gained experiences.

In recent years the there has been an increasing recognition of the potential of the innovation systems concept to provide new ways of making more effective use of agricultural research and improve its impact on socially desirable outcomes. This paper documents the experiences of a group of researchers in India who experimented with this framework and tried to operationalise its principles in p...

The greater number of government efforts to stimulate participative governance in communities using Information and Communication Technology (ICT) often fall short of expectations. In South Africa extending e-government to communities has been in the form of more and/or better equipped ICT-enabled community centres, called Thusong Service Centres. In this paper, based on action research experie...

In this article we focus upon some challenges of multidisciplinary teams working interdisciplinary in research for innovation of novel ICT applications. We start by defining some general challenges of especially social scientists when working interdisciplinary. The formulated challenges are grounded in our personal experiences. In the next part of the article we focus upon research methods that...

Engaging students in research early on in the college experience may help reduce the number of students who drop out of STEM after experiencing one of the gateway courses, such as the introductory laboratory courses. Typical introductory laboratories do not show students the nature of scientific careers, the application of science in everyday life, and how science is interdisciplinary. Undergra...

Typical OR education programmes are focused on those who should professionally act as ‘‘performers’’ (specialists, modellers, etc.) in the process of business problems solving through quantitative modelling and similar formalized procedures. The problem of unsatisfactory level of understanding between ‘‘specialists’’ and ‘‘generalists’’ (managers, e.g.) has been known for decades; yet we feel t...

A significant percentage of human population in developing regions lies towards the Bottom of the Pyramid. Many of these cannot afford their own IT infrastructure or be able to use it directly due to low literacy levels. This results in lack of use and awareness of technology in various segments leading to several inefficiencies. Increasing technology awareness and adoption is therefore a prime...

Following the widespread adoption of music media sharing applications for the Internet a growing number of research projects have explored sharing in a mobile context. Insofar these projects have mainly addressed face-to-face copresence situations. The Sound Pryer prototype, on the other hand, is designed to provide joint music listening experiences among drivers in traffic. Through field trial...

Online sharing of scientific information has accelerated the research activity in various domains of science. This fact inspires us to initiate a new kind of approach in the field of network research and review some projects pointing towards this direction. Building on the experiences of similar efforts in other domains of sciences we are building a prototype node for Network Measurement Virtua...