The heuristic includes scaffolding for imagining research as performance through a transdisciplinary lens, a suggested process for using the tool, and examples based on the every day research projects.
The method has been used by researchers at the University of Essex, UK, and King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to create and test a virtual-reality-based distance-learning tool originally imagined for the year 2048 that they call the BReal Lab (go.nature.com/2fhz9za).com/2fhz9za
People feel like it is a viable tool for trying to imagine things in their environment.
Slightly more than half of the students considered the cadaver as a tool for learning or imagined the former life of the cadaver.
"Before the availability of digital mapping tools, finding and imagining futures for such sites was an exercise in herculean bookkeeping and singular imagination," writes de Monchaux, who also is director of UC Berkeley's Center for New Media.
"I had a tool for everything you can imagine, undoing buttons, putting on trousers, eating, for everything.
Community viral load provides a new tool for public health authorities to imagine particular communities (Legg 2005) in ways that are flexible, fluid, and can be adapted to different needs (Brown and Knopp 2006).
By adding data to this framework, the creators of the NYCMap imagine a powerful tool for the city government.
"What if you could make a tool for... something fun?" I couldn't imagine how chimps managed this evolutionary leap.
As I handed over the tissue box, I realized that I had imagined practice mainly as a tool for dealing with poor performance.
