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Acknowledgment to Reviewers of Multimodal Technologies and Interaction in 2020

  • Multimodal Technologies and Interaction Editorial Office

Peer review is the driving force of journal development, and reviewers are gatekeepers who ensure that Multimodal Technologies and Interaction maintains its standards for the high quality of its published papers [...]

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
2,413 Views
2 Pages

The editorial team greatly appreciates the reviewers who have dedicated their considerable time and expertise to the journal’s rigorous editorial process over the past 12 months, regardless of whether the papers are finally published or not [...]

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,962 Views
16 Pages

One of the fundamental problems in the field of technological studies is to clarify the drivers and dynamics of technological evolution for sustaining industrial and economic change. This study confronts the problem by analyzing the converging techno...

  • Review
  • Open Access
140 Citations
22,885 Views
25 Pages

A Review of PFAS Destruction Technologies

  • Jay N. Meegoda,
  • Bruno Bezerra de Souza,
  • Melissa Monteiro Casarini and
  • Jitendra A. Kewalramani

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) are a family of highly toxic emerging contaminants that have caught the attention of both the public and private sectors due to their adverse health impacts on society. The scientific community has been lab...

  • Article
  • Open Access
58 Citations
11,581 Views
10 Pages

14 November 2019

This study is based on the need to work on the digital literacy of our Infant Education degree, Primary Education degree and Master in Secondary Education students so that, as future teachers, they are able to make the necessary transition from ICTs...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,743 Views
17 Pages

An increasing number of manufacturing enterprises are adopting environmental technologies to cope with the increasingly severe environmental regulatory pressure, but the existing studies about the impact of environmental technologies on economic perf...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,658 Views
18 Pages

Feature Distributions of Technologies

  • Jiannan Zhu,
  • Chao Deng,
  • Jiaofeng Pan,
  • Fu Gu and
  • Jianfeng Guo

26 July 2024

In this study, we propose a big data-based method for characterizing the feature distributions of multiple technologies within a specific domain. Traditional approaches, such as Gartner’s hype cycle or S-curve model, portray the developmental t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,869 Views
16 Pages

19 October 2021

The rapid decarbonization of the global economy represents the main challenge for the next decades to combat climate change. The European Union (EU) is leading the negotiation process under the Paris Agreement and recently approved an ambitious unila...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
12,069 Views
33 Pages

29 November 2023

The transformation of the energy sector, based on the development of low-carbon technologies, is essential to achieve climate neutrality. The Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a powerful methodology for assessing the environmental impact of energy techn...

  • Review
  • Open Access
73 Citations
16,897 Views
13 Pages

Spatial Transcriptomic Technologies

  • Tsai-Ying Chen,
  • Li You,
  • Jose Angelito U. Hardillo and
  • Miao-Ping Chien

10 August 2023

Spatial transcriptomic technologies enable measurement of expression levels of genes systematically throughout tissue space, deepening our understanding of cellular organizations and interactions within tissues as well as illuminating biological insi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
46 Citations
14,321 Views
20 Pages

Distributed Ledger Technologies and Their Applications: A Review

  • Reza Soltani,
  • Marzia Zaman,
  • Rohit Joshi and
  • Srinivas Sampalli

6 August 2022

With the success of Bitcoin and the introduction of different uses of Blockchain, such as smart contracts in Ethereum, many researchers and industries have turned their attention to applications that use this technology. In response to the advantages...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,982 Views
46 Pages

Assembly and Interconnection Technologies for 3D Plastic Circuit Carriers: An Overview of Technologies, Materials, and Applications

  • Kai Werum,
  • Wolfgang Eberhardt,
  • Dieter Reenaers,
  • Thomas Mager,
  • Mika Endl,
  • André Zimmermann and
  • Wim Deferme

26 August 2025

This paper aims to present an overview of the state-of-the-art materials and technologies that can be used to create electronic circuits on 3D plastic carriers also known as 3D electronics. Strategies for print-based and laser-based 3D electronics wi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,496 Views
19 Pages

A Review on Pipeline In-Line Inspection Technologies

  • Qingmiao Ma,
  • Weige Liang and
  • Peiyi Zhou

7 August 2025

Pipelines, as critical infrastructure in energy transmission, municipal facilities, industrial production, and specialized equipment, are essential to national economic security and social stability. This paper systematically reviews the domestic and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,252 Views
24 Pages

Monitoring and Forecasting of Key Functions and Technologies for Automated Driving

  • Christian Ulrich,
  • Benjamin Frieske,
  • Stephan A. Schmid and
  • Horst E. Friedrich

20 May 2022

Companies facing transformation in the automotive industry will need to adapt to new trends, technologies and functions, in order to remain competitive. The challenge is to anticipate such trends and to forecast their development over time. The aim o...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1,588 Views
25 Pages

Sustainable Emerging Technologies: Battle for Dominant Design

  • Esteban Fernández,
  • Sandra Valle and
  • Guillermo Pérez-Bustamante

8 May 2025

When sustainable emerging technologies (SETs) enter mainstream markets, a battle unfolds between pioneers and incumbents to establish the new dominant design. The purpose of this article is to explore the key factors that determine the outcome of suc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,005 Views
13 Pages

Mapping International Civic Technologies Platforms

  • Aelita Skaržauskienė and
  • Monika Mačiulienė

The new communication paradigm supported by Information and Communication Technology (ICT) puts end-users at the center of innovation processes, thereby shifting the emphasis from technology to people. Citizen centric approaches such as New Public Go...

  • Review
  • Open Access
33 Citations
6,384 Views
47 Pages

A Systematic Review and Classification of Glazing Technologies for Building Façades

  • Michalis Michael,
  • Fabio Favoino,
  • Qian Jin,
  • Alessandra Luna-Navarro and
  • Mauro Overend

13 July 2023

High-performance glazing technologies are essential for achieving the occupant comfort and building energy efficiency required in contemporary and future buildings. In real-world applications, glazing façades are selected from a steadily incre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,237 Views
16 Pages

Agriculture 4.0 and 5.0 generate good expectations of satisfying the growing demand for food in a sustainable way. However, in order to make effective use of scientific and technological developments, infrastructure, knowledge, experience and skills...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,244 Views
12 Pages

With advances in science and technology and changes in industry, research on promising future technologies has emerged as important. Furthermore, with the advent of a ubiquitous and smart environment, governments and enterprises are required to predi...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
34 Citations
10,394 Views
18 Pages

A Report on Smoking Detection and Quitting Technologies

  • Alessandro Ortis,
  • Pasquale Caponnetto,
  • Riccardo Polosa,
  • Salvatore Urso and
  • Sebastiano Battiato

Mobile health technologies are being developed for personal lifestyle and medical healthcare support, of which a growing number are designed to assist smokers to quit. The potential impact of these technologies in the fight against smoking addiction...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,548 Views
15 Pages

An Acceptance Approach for Novel Technologies in Car Insurance

  • Nemanja Milanović,
  • Miloš Milosavljević,
  • Slađana Benković,
  • Dušan Starčević and
  • Željko Spasenić

10 December 2020

Background: Unlike other financial services, technology-driven changes in the insurance industry have not been a vastly explored topic in scholarly literature. Incumbent insurance companies have hitherto been holding their positions using the complex...

  • Review
  • Open Access
233 Citations
21,721 Views
26 Pages

A Review of Optical NDT Technologies

  • Yong-Kai Zhu,
  • Gui-Yun Tian,
  • Rong-Sheng Lu and
  • Hong Zhang

8 August 2011

Optical non-destructive testing (NDT) has gained more and more attention in recent years, mainly because of its non-destructive imaging characteristics with high precision and sensitivity. This paper provides a review of the main optical NDT technolo...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
8,685 Views
30 Pages

Fintech Agents: Technologies and Theories

  • Anagh Pal,
  • Shreya Gopi and
  • Kwan Min Lee

Many financial technology (fintech) applications have incorporated interactive computer agents to act as mediators between the user and the fintech system. This paper provides a comprehensive review of interactive fintech agents from technological an...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,046 Views
15 Pages

Door-Opening Technologies: Search for Affordable Assistive Technology

  • Javeed Shaikh-Mohammed,
  • Yousef Alharbi and
  • Abdulrahman Alqahtani

To the authors’ knowledge, currently, there is no review covering the different technologies applied to opening manual doors. Therefore, this review presents a summary of the various technologies available on the market as well as those under r...

  • Review
  • Open Access
400 Citations
42,650 Views
23 Pages

Technologies for Single-Cell Isolation

  • Andre Gross,
  • Jonas Schoendube,
  • Stefan Zimmermann,
  • Maximilian Steeb,
  • Roland Zengerle and
  • Peter Koltay

24 July 2015

The handling of single cells is of great importance in applications such as cell line development or single-cell analysis, e.g., for cancer research or for emerging diagnostic methods. This review provides an overview of technologies that are current...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
29 Citations
8,947 Views
35 Pages

Sustainable Technologies for Older Adults

  • Jorge Morato,
  • Sonia Sanchez-Cuadrado,
  • Ana Iglesias,
  • Adrián Campillo and
  • Carmen Fernández-Panadero

29 July 2021

The exponential evolution of technology and the growth of the elderly population are two phenomena that will inevitably interact with increasing frequency in the future. This paper analyses scientific literature as a means of furthering progress in s...

  • Entry
  • Open Access
283 Views
16 Pages

Technologies for Supporting Academic Development

  • Paolo Fusco,
  • Alessio Di Paolo and
  • Michele Domenico Todino

Academic Development (AD) represents a fundamental strategy for improving the quality of university teaching in the digital era. This entry proposes a critical analysis of technologies supporting AD, examining theoretical models, emerging practices,...

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,722 Views
8 Pages

Evolution of Biologics Screening Technologies

  • Peter Cariuk,
  • Matthew J. Gardener and
  • Tristan J. Vaughan

14 May 2013

Screening for biologics, in particular antibody drugs, has evolved significantly over the last 20 years. Initially, the screening processes and technologies from many years experience with small molecules were adopted and modified to suit the needs o...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
15,056 Views
23 Pages

Technologies in Inclusive Education: Solution or Challenge? A Systematic Review

  • Mariela Verónica Samaniego López,
  • Monserrat Catalina Orrego Riofrío,
  • Santiago Fabián Barriga-Fray and
  • Bertha Susana Paz Viteri

Inclusive education aims to ensure equitable participation for all students. Technology plays a crucial role in this endeavor by providing tools that eliminate barriers, personalize learning, and foster active participation, especially for students w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,962 Views
17 Pages

The Korean government announced it was carbon-neutral in October 2021. In addition, as a follow-up, the government maintains related laws and systems and invests in facilitating research and technology development extensively. Government investment i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,852 Views
24 Pages

This study proposes a new concept that explains a source of technological change: The invasive behaviour of general purpose technologies that breaks into scientific and technological ecosystems with accelerated diffusion of new products and processes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
8,214 Views
22 Pages

Clean Technologies in Agriculture—How to Prioritise Measures?

  • Deborah Scharfy,
  • Norman Boccali and
  • Matthias Stucki

26 July 2017

As agriculture continues to be under pressure due to its negative environmental impacts, resource-efficiency and the use of clean technologies gain importance. Meanwhile, there is an abundance of technological solutions that help “clean” agriculture’...

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