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HCI remixed :essays on works that have influenced the HCI community
Over almost three decades, the field of human-computer interaction (HCI) has produced a rich and varied literature. Although the focus of attention today is naturally on new work, older contributions that played a role in shaping the trajectory and character of the field have much to tell us. The contributors to HCI Remixed were asked to reflect on a single work at least ten years old that infl…
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- 9780262256070
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- 1 online resource (xv, 337 pages) :illustrations
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Attention and performance XVI :information integration in perception and comm…
"A Bradford book."Based on papers presented at the Sixteenth International Symposium on Attention and Performance held at Kyoto Research Park, Kyoto, Japan, July 11-15, 1994.The contributions to this volume, the sixteenth in the prestigious Attention and Performance series, revisit the issue of modularity, the idea that many functions are independently realized in specialized, autonomous module…
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- 9780262315760
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- 1 online resource ([xix unnumbered, 680 pages)illustrations.
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Languages of the mind :essays on mental representation
"A Bradford Book."Over the past two decades, Ray Jackendoff has persistently tackled difficult issues in the theory of mind and related theories of cognitive processing. Chief among his contributions is a formal theory that elaborates the nature of language and its relationship to a broad set of other domains. Languages of the Mind provides convenient access to Jackendoff's work over the past f…
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- 9780262276122
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- 1 online resource (216 pages).
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Management :inventing and delivering its future
"The MIT Sloan School of Management: 50th anniversary."The MIT Sloan School of Management perspective on future management challenges.The MIT Sloan School of Management, as conceived by the legendary General Motors chairman Alfred P. Sloan, was founded in 1952 to draw on the scientific and technical resources of MIT and approach the problems of management with the rigorous research practices fo…
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- 9780262277334
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 309 pages) :illustrations
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Making use :scenario-based design of human-computer interactions
"Difficult to learn and awkward to use, today's information systems often change our activities in ways that we do not need or want. The problem lies in the software development process. In this book John Carroll shows how a pervasive but underused element of design practice, the scenario, can transform information systems design.Traditional textbook approaches manage the complexity of the desi…
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- 9780262269926
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 368 pages) :illustrations
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Made-up minds :a constructivist approach to artificial intelligence
Outgrowth of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology."Made-Up Minds addresses fundamental questions of learning and concept invention by means of an innovative computer program that is based on the cognitive-developmental theory of psychologist Jean Piaget. Drescher uses Piaget's theory as a source of inspiration for the design of an artificial cognitive system calle…
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- 0585349851
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- 1 online resource (x, 220 pages) :illustrations.
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Leonardo's laptop :human needs and the new computing technologies
"Ben Shneiderman's book dramatically raises computer users' expectations of what they should get from technology. He opens their eyes to new possibilities and invites them to think freshly about future technology. He challenges developers to build products that better support human needs and that are usable at any bandwidth. Shneiderman proposes Leonardo da Vinci as an inspirational muse for th…
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- 9780262256988
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- 1 online resource (xi, 269 pages) :illustrations
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Microcognition :philosophy, cognitive science, and parallel distributed proce…
"A Bradford book."Parallel distributed processing is transforming the field of cognitive science. Microcognition provides a clear, readable guide to this emerging paradigm from a cognitive philosopher's point of view. It explains and explores the biological basis of PDP, its psychological importance, and its philosophical relevance.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0585002967
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 226 pages).
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Psychosemantics :the problem of meaning in the philosophy of mind
Bradford Books.AnnotationOCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262560526
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- 1 online resource (187 pages .).
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The shape of actions :what humans and machines can do
What can humans do? What can machines do? How do humans delegate actions to machines? In this book, Harry Collins and Martin Kusch combine insights from sociology and philosophy to provide a novel answer to these increasingly important questions. The authors begin by distinguishing between two basic types of intentional behavior, which they call polimorphic actions and mimeomorphic actions. Pol…
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- 0585075670
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- 1 online resource (xi, 212 pages) :illustrations
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