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Designing with the body :somaesthetic interaction design
Interaction design that entails a qualitative shift from a symbolic, language-oriented stance to an experiential stance that encompasses the entire design and use cycle. With the rise of ubiquitous technology, data-driven design, and the Internet of Things, our interactions and interfaces with technology are about to change dramatically, incorporating such emerging technologies as shape-changin…
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Good Reception: Teens, Teachers, and Mobile Media in a Los Angeles High School
A year in the life of a ninth-grade English class shows how participatory culture and mobile devices can transform learning in schools.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262343480
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- 1 online resource (xii, 230 pages).
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Ultrawideband Phased Array Antenna Technology for Sensing and Communications …
Ultrawideband phased array antennas are an enabling technology for many ground-based and airborne communications and radar systems. This book surveys electromagnetic theory and phased array antenna theory and provides examples of ultrawideband phased array antenna technology. It describes some of the research on ultrawideband phased arrays undertaken by the authors and their colleagues at MIT L…
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- 9780262328906
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 260 pages) :illustrations.
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Science and Technology in the Global Cold War
Investigations of how the global Cold War shaped national scientific and technological practices in fields from biomedicine to rocket science.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262326100
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- 1 online resource (viii, 456 pages) :illustrations.
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A history of online information services, 1963-1976
Every field of history has a basic need for a detailed chronology of what happened: who did what when. In the absence of such a resource, fanciful accounts flourish. This book provides a rich narrative of the early development of online information retrieval systems and services, from 1963 to 1976--a period important to anyone who uses a search engine, online catalog, or large database. Drawing…
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- 9780262269049
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 493 pages) : illustrations
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Unmanned Systems of World Wars I and II
"Foreword by Michael Toscano"--Cover."Military drones have recently been hailed as a revolutionary new technology that will forever change the conduct of war. And yet the United States and other countries have been deploying such unmanned military systems for more than a century. Written by a renowned authority in the field, this book documents the forgotten legacy of these pioneering efforts, …
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- 0262331772
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- 1 online resource (757 pages) :illustrations, map.
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The First 100 Feet: Options for Internet and Broadband Access
"The growth of the Internet has been propelled in significant part by user investment in infrastructure: computers, internal wiring, and the connection to the Internet provider. This "bottom-up" investment minimizes the investment burden facing providers. New technologies such as wireless and data transmission over power lines, as well as deregulation of telecommunications and electric utilitie…
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- 9780262287128
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- 1 online resource (viii, 209 pages) :illustrations.
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Gameworld interfaces
Digital games tend to follow one of two trends when presenting game information to the player. The game may present game information in a naturalistic way as part of the imaginary universe presented by the game, avoiding symbolic or abstract representations that seem alien to the fictional world. Alternatively, the game may use graphical augmentations such as superimposed information, menus, an…
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Modularity :understanding the development and evolution of natural complex sy…
Experts from diverse fields, including artificial life, cognitive science, economics, developmental and evolutionary biology, and the arts, discuss modularity.Modularity--the attempt to understand systems as integrations of partially independent and interacting units--is today a dominant theme in the life sciences, cognitive science, and computer science. The concept goes back at least implicit…
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- 9780262269698
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 455 pages) :illustrations.
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Taken for grantedness :the embedding of mobile communication into society
"Why do we feel insulted or exasperated when our friends and family don't answer their mobile phones? If the Internet has allowed us to broaden our social world into a virtual friend-net, the mobile phone is an instrument of a more intimate social sphere. The mobile phone provides a taken-for-granted link to the people to whom we are closest; when we are without it, social and domestic disarray…
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- 9780262305266
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 241 pages) :illustrations
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