Stephan Winter – författare

Das Internet bietet im Vergleich zu traditionellen Medien eine deutlich erhöhte Informationsmenge und umfassende Möglichkeiten der Nutzerbeteiligung, beispielsweise über Leserkommentare. Dieses Buch beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, inwieweit diese neue Situation die Prozesse der Auswahl und Verarbeitung journalistischer Inhalte verändert. Wie geht der Rezipient mit der Informationsvielfalt um und nach welchen Kriterien wählt er redaktionell erstellte Inhalte auf Online-Nachrichtenseiten aus? Inwieweit bestimmen Quellenangaben und Reaktionen anderer Leser die Bewertung journalistischer Texte? Zur Klärung dieser Fragen werden sozial- und medienpsychologische Theorien mit Blick auf die neue Medienlandschaft diskutiert und experimentelle Studien vorgestellt.

Das Internet bietet im Vergleich zu traditionellen Medien eine deutlich erhöhte Informationsmenge und umfassende Möglichkeiten der Nutzerbeteiligung, beispielsweise über Leserkommentare. Dieses Buch beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, inwieweit diese neue Situation die Prozesse der Auswahl und Verarbeitung journalistischer Inhalte verändert. Wie geht der Rezipient mit der Informationsvielfalt um und nach welchen Kriterien wählt er redaktionell erstellte Inhalte auf Online-Nachrichtenseiten aus? Inwieweit bestimmen Quellenangaben und Reaktionen anderer Leser die Bewertung journalistischer Texte? Zur Klärung dieser Fragen werden sozial- und medienpsychologische Theorien mit Blick auf die neue Medienlandschaft diskutiert und experimentelle Studien vorgestellt.

This book covers the latest research on landmarks in GIS, including practical applications. It addresses perceptual and cognitive aspects of natural and artificial cognitive systems, computational aspects with respect to identifying or selecting landmarks for various purposes, and communication aspects of human-computer interaction for spatial information provision. Concise and organized, the book equips readers to handle complex conceptual aspects of trying to define and formally model these situations. The book provides a thorough review of the cognitive, conceptual, computational and communication aspects of GIS landmarks. This review is unique for comparing concepts across a spectrum of sub-disciplines in the field. Portions of the ideas discussed led to the world’s first commercial navigation service using landmarks selected with cognitive principles. Landmarks: GI Science for Intelligent Services targets practitioners and researchers working in geographic information science, computer science, information science, cognitive science, geography and psychology. Advanced-level students in computer science, geography and psychology will also find this book valuable as a secondary textbook or reference.

This book covers the latest research on landmarks in GIS, including practical applications. It addresses perceptual and cognitive aspects of natural and artificial cognitive systems, computational aspects with respect to identifying or selecting landmarks for various purposes, and communication aspects of human-computer interaction for spatial information provision. Concise and organized, the book equips readers to handle complex conceptual aspects of trying to define and formally model these situations. The book provides a thorough review of the cognitive, conceptual, computational and communication aspects of GIS landmarks. This review is unique for comparing concepts across a spectrum of sub-disciplines in the field. Portions of the ideas discussed led to the world’s first commercial navigation service using landmarks selected with cognitive principles. Landmarks: GI Science for Intelligent Services targets practitioners and researchers working in geographic information science, computer science, information science, cognitive science, geography and psychology. Advanced-level students in computer science, geography and psychology will also find this book valuable as a secondary textbook or reference.

This book covers the latest research on landmarks in GIS, including practical applications. It addresses perceptual and cognitive aspects of natural and artificial cognitive systems, computational aspects with respect to identifying or selecting landmarks for various purposes, and communication aspects of human-computer interaction for spatial information provision. Concise and organized, the book equips readers to handle complex conceptual aspects of trying to define and formally model these situations. The book provides a thorough review of the cognitive, conceptual, computational and communication aspects of GIS landmarks. This review is unique for comparing concepts across a spectrum of sub-disciplines in the field. Portions of the ideas discussed led to the world’s first commercial navigation service using landmarks selected with cognitive principles. Landmarks: GI Science for Intelligent Services targets practitioners and researchers working in geographic information science, computer science, information science, cognitive science, geography and psychology. Advanced-level students in computer science, geography and psychology will also find this book valuable as a secondary textbook or reference.

The worldwide popularisation of mobile communication technologies and the incre- ing awareness of usability issues since 1990’s have been urging map designers to s- cialise and extend cartographic semiotics, visualisation styles and map use techniques for mobile contexts and small display devices. As a follow-up to the first book “M- based Mobile Services – Theories, Methods and Implementations” published in 2005, this new one is devoted to design strategies, user interactions and usability issues. It addresses methods and techniques for topics that range from design and rendering, context modelling, personalisation, multimodal interaction to usability test. Instead of striving for a seamless coverage of all essential theoretical and technical issues with an equal depth and extent, we attempt to pinpoint a number of research highlights and representative development activities at universities, research institutions and so- ware industry. The operational prototypes and platforms reported in the book are on the one hand outcome and feasibility proof of various approaches. On the other hand, they serve as a new starting point for the refinement of user interfaces and iterative usability tests. The book is intended not only for cartographers, surveying engineers and g- information scientists engaged in the development of location-based services, but also for software engineers and cognitive scientists working with interface design and - ability assessment. In addition, we try to provide a number of real-life case studies for students, academics and practitioners from GIS, computer graphics and other relevant disciplines.

The worldwide popularisation of mobile communication technologies and the incre- ing awareness of usability issues since 1990’s have been urging map designers to s- cialise and extend cartographic semiotics, visualisation styles and map use techniques for mobile contexts and small display devices. As a follow-up to the first book “M- based Mobile Services – Theories, Methods and Implementations” published in 2005, this new one is devoted to design strategies, user interactions and usability issues. It addresses methods and techniques for topics that range from design and rendering, context modelling, personalisation, multimodal interaction to usability test. Instead of striving for a seamless coverage of all essential theoretical and technical issues with an equal depth and extent, we attempt to pinpoint a number of research highlights and representative development activities at universities, research institutions and so- ware industry. The operational prototypes and platforms reported in the book are on the one hand outcome and feasibility proof of various approaches. On the other hand, they serve as a new starting point for the refinement of user interfaces and iterative usability tests. The book is intended not only for cartographers, surveying engineers and g- information scientists engaged in the development of location-based services, but also for software engineers and cognitive scientists working with interface design and - ability assessment. In addition, we try to provide a number of real-life case studies for students, academics and practitioners from GIS, computer graphics and other relevant disciplines.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Spatial Information Theory, COSIT 2007, held in Melbourne, Australia in September 2007. The 27 revised full papers were carefully reviewed from 102 submissions, and they are organized in topical sections on cultural studies, semantics, similarity, mapping and representation, perception and cognition, reasoning and algorithms, navigation and landmarks, as well as uncertainty and imperfection.

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2007 in the subject Computer Science - Software, University of Paderborn, language: English, abstract: Server virtualization is currently a field of IT which is undergoing a rapid development. Introducing an even spread of performance on server farms which results in a good TCO (total cost of ownership), virtualization has already got the full attention from industry, resulting in massive participation and huge acquisitions. With server virtualization the size of server farms can be reduced dramatically, resulting in a lower total cost of ownership and (by using techniques like Linux-HA in virtual environments) increased availability. Even with an overhead of 10-20% on the layer of virtualization it is still very interesting since the load on a server farm can be spread evenly (which is not only a main target in server virtualization but also in distributed systems in general). This work will give an insight on the current developments in the field of server virtualization and the various techniques involved in it as well as a short historical overview about when the first types of virtualization were introduced (and why they failed, since according to A. Tanenbaum the current hardware is not made to be virtualized). The findings will mostly be supported by examples of current virtual environments (especially the XEN project). The paper will first introduce the different ways of virtualizing a system and in how far hardware can or can not support this. The second part will introduce the current software for virtualizing a server and giving users their own separated environment, starting from early approaches like BSD jails to the Linux V-Server and XEN Project. The last chapter will cover the use of server virtualization in high-availability environments. With the use of n physical machines and m virtualized systems on each machine, an environment of (n * m) / x can be created, where x is the level of redundancy (e.g. x = 2 for mirroring). Most interesting is how virtual environments can be moved from one physical machine to another one without switching it off. The summary will give some insight on the current use of virtual environments and in how far they provide advantages over solutions like Mosix, Application-basic virtualization and the grid. It will also give an outlook on further developments especially in the field of hardware support for virtualization.

The worldwide popularisation of mobile communication technologies and the incre- ing awareness of usability issues since 1990’s have been urging map designers to s- cialise and extend cartographic semiotics, visualisation styles and map use techniques for mobile contexts and small display devices. As a follow-up to the first book “M- based Mobile Services – Theories, Methods and Implementations” published in 2005, this new one is devoted to design strategies, user interactions and usability issues. It addresses methods and techniques for topics that range from design and rendering, context modelling, personalisation, multimodal interaction to usability test. Instead of striving for a seamless coverage of all essential theoretical and technical issues with an equal depth and extent, we attempt to pinpoint a number of research highlights and representative development activities at universities, research institutions and so- ware industry. The operational prototypes and platforms reported in the book are on the one hand outcome and feasibility proof of various approaches. On the other hand, they serve as a new starting point for the refinement of user interfaces and iterative usability tests. The book is intended not only for cartographers, surveying engineers and g- information scientists engaged in the development of location-based services, but also for software engineers and cognitive scientists working with interface design and - ability assessment. In addition, we try to provide a number of real-life case studies for students, academics and practitioners from GIS, computer graphics and other relevant disciplines.

Papst Franziskus orientiert sich programmatisch stark an Franz von Assisi. Deshalb stellt er die Sorge um die Armen, die Wiedergewinnung und Sicherung des Friedens sowie die Bewahrung der Schöpfung ins Zentrum seines Pontifikats, besonders eindrücklich in der Enzyklika "Laudato si'' – Über die Sorge für das gemeinsame Haus". In franziskanisch-klarianischer Tradition arbeitet auch IUNCTUS, das Kompetenzzentrum für Christliche Spiritualität an der Philosophisch- Theologischen Hochschule Münster. Die Autor*innen befassen sich aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven mit der Enzyklika: Gesundheit und Spiritualität, Management und Führung, Ökologie und Spiritualität, moderne Gesellschaften und Ökologie. Dieser Sammelband trägt die Ergebnisse zusammen und gibt spannende und vielfältige Impulse für alle, die sich an der so notwendigen Gestaltung eines ökologischen Zeitalters mit ihren Möglichkeiten beteiligen wollen.

Die aktuellen Debatten um eine Reform der Sozialgestalt von Kirche, wie sie etwa auf dem Synodalen Weg geführt werden, schließen häufig auch Fragen der Liturgie mit ein. Nach der Tagung der Liturgiekommission der Deutschen Bischofskonferenz zu dem Themenkomplex "Gottesdienst und Macht" schließt die Jahrestagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft katholischer Liturgiewissenschaftlerinnen und Liturgiewissenschaftler im deutschen Sprachgebiet mit dem Thema "Liturgia/ecclesia semper reformanda?!" an. Die Fragestellung, inwiefern eine Reform der Kirche unabdingbar auch mit einer Reform der Liturgie einhergeht, wird aus ganz unterschiedlichen Blickwinkeln beleuchtet und diskutiert.

Gemäß einer Online-Befragung im Jahr 2019 ist die pastorale und ekklesiologische Bedeutung von Wort-Gottes-Feiern besonders an den Sonn- und Feiertagen in den letzten Jahren deutlich gestiegen. Dennoch wird sie häufig als Ersatzform wahrgenommen, wenn die Feier der Eucharistie nicht möglich ist.Es stellen sich Fragen: Sind Unterschiede bei der Leitung einer WGF zwischen geweihten und nichtgeweihten Personen angemessen, z. B. im Blick auf liturgische Formeln, Gesten, die Nutzung von Orten wie dem "Priestersitz"? Wie können eigene Kompetenzen von Laien bei der Schriftauslegung zum Tragen kommen? Welches Bild von Kirche wird vermittelt, wenn gerade bei der WGF Gemeinden vor Ort kreativ ihre Gestaltungsspielräume nutzen? Die Autor:innen diskutieren Konturen eines angemessenen, eigenständigen Profils der Wort-Gottes-Feier.