Ambient intelligence (AI) refers to a developing technology that will increasingly make our
everyday environment sensitive and responsive to our presence. The AI vision requires …

Grid computing offers significant enhancements to our capabilities for computation,
information processing, and collaboration, and has exciting ambitions in many fields of …

Purpose–The purpose of this article is to explain the nature of the “e‐Science'revolution in
twenty‐first century scientific research and its consequences for the library community …

In this article we investigate information scraps—personal information where content has
been scribbled on Post-it notes, scrawled on the corners of sheets of paper, stuck in our …

Despite the increasingly digital nature of society there are some areas of research that
remain firmly rooted in the past; in this case the laboratory notebook, the last remaining …

We report on our studies of the evolving work practices of biologists and the role paper and
electronic lab notebooks play in supporting their individual and collaborative activity. We …

Biomedical research is a prominent case of knowledge work, often driven by data and
information. A major limiting factor in biomedical research is access to information when and …

Funding for software development can be difficult to find and maintain (it's often an add-on to
a larger science-focused research grant bid). Developers in the scientific software …

We present the eLabBench--a tabletop system supporting experimental research in the
biology laboratory. The eLabBench allows biologists to organize their experiments around …

In this paper, we reflect on the design, development, and deployment of G-nome Surfer; a
multi-touch tabletop user interface for collaborative exploration of genomic data. G-nome …