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,…
"A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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The innovative French media artist and prankster-provocateur Fred Forest first gained notoriety in 1972 when he inserted a small blank space in Le Monde, called it 150 cm 2 of Newspaper (150 cm 2 de papier journal), and invited readers to fill in the space with their own work and mail their efforts to him. In 1977, he satirized speculation in both the art and real estate markets by offering the…
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.
OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.