This open access book tackles the design of 3D spatial interactions in an audio-centered and audio-first perspective, providing the fundamental notions related to the creation and evaluation of immersive sonic experiences. The key elements that enhance the sensation of place in a virtual environment (VE) are:
This book gathers the second volume of the proceedings of the 31st edition of the International Conference on Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing, FAIM 2022, held on June 19 – 23, 2022, in Detroit, Michigan, USA. Covering four thematic areas including Manufacturing Processes, Machine Tools, Manufacturing Systems, and Enabling Technologies, it highlights advances in micro- and na…
This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Digital Health Transformation and Smart Ageing, ICOST 2023, held in Wonju, South Korea, during July 7–8, 2023. The 18 full papers and 16 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 41 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: IoT and A…
An examination of the public perception of biometric identification technology in the context of privacy, security & civil liberties.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
"A Bradford book."How understanding the signaling within social networks can change the way we make decisions, work with others, and manage organizations.How can you know when someone is bluffing? Paying attention? Genuinely interested? The answer, writes Alex Pentland in Honest Signals, is that subtle patterns in how we interact with other people reveal our attitudes toward them. These unconsc…
Ever since the term "crowdsourcing" was coined in 2006 by Wired writer Jeff Howe, group activities ranging from the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary to the choosing of new colors for M & Ms have been labeled with this most buzz-generating of media buzzwords. In this accessible but authoritative account, grounded in the empirical literature, Daren Brabham explains what crowdsourcing is,…
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This title is an analysis of how fMRI researchers actively involve their bodies - with hand movements in particular - in laboratory practice.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Much of the difficulty in creating information technology systems that truly meet people's needs lies in the problem of pinning down system requirements. This book offers a new approach to the requirements challenge, based on modeling and analyzing the relationships among stakeholders. Although the importance of the system-environment relationship has long been recognized in the requirements en…
How to think about the shaping and composing of information technology from a design perspective: the aesthetics and ethics of interaction design.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.