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Accessing and browsing information and communication
This book contends that accessing and browsing information and communication are multidimensional and consequential aspects of the information user's entire experience and of general human behavior. Problems in information creation, processing, transmittal, and use often arise from an incomplete conceptualization of the "information seeking" process, where information seeking is viewed as the i…
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- 9780262256865
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 357 pages) :illustrations
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Context and Consciousness: Activity Theory and Human-Computer Interaction
Intended for designers and researchers, Context and Consciousness brings together 13 contributions that apply activity theory to problems of human-computer interaction. Understanding how people actually use computers in their everyday lives is essential to good design and evaluation. This insight necessitates a move out of the laboratory and into the field. The research described in Context and…
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- 9780262280419
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 400 pages) :illustrations
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Activity-centered design :an ecological approach to designing smart tools and…
The shift in the practice of human-computer interaction (HCI) Design from user-centered to context-based design marks a significant change in focus. With context-based design, designers start not with a preconceived idea of what users should do, but with an understanding of what users actually do. Context-based design focuses on the situation in which the technology will be used -- the activiti…
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- 9780262256223
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- 1 online resource (xxi, 111 pages) :illustrations.
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Affective computing
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- 9780262281584
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- 1 online resource (xii, 292 pages) :illustrations
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Parallel distributed processing :explorations in the microstructure of cognit…
"A Bradford book."What makes people smarter than computers? These volumes by a pioneering neurocomputing group suggest that the answer lies in the massively parallel architecture of the human mind. They describe a new theory of cognition called connectionism that is challenging the idea of symbolic computation that has traditionally been at the center of debate in theoretical discussions about …
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- 9780262291262
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Dynamic faces: Insights from experiments and computation
The recognition of faces is a fundamental visual function with importance for social interaction and communication. This volume offers a state-of-the-art, interdisciplinary overview of recent work on dynamic faces from both biological and computational perspectives.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262289313
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 283 pages): illustrations
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Attention and Performance XV :conscious and nonconscious information processing
"Based on the papers that were presented at the Fifteenth International Symposium on Attention and Performance held ... Erice, Sicily, Italy, July 26-31, 1992."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262285360
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- 1 online resource (xix, 945 pages) :illustrations, portraits.
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Attention and Performance XVII :cognitive regulation of performance, interact…
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- 9780262315777
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 814 pages) :illustrations, portrait.
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The hand, an organ of the mind :what the manual tells the mental
"Cartesian-inspired dualism enforces a theoretical distinction between the motor and the cognitive and locates the mental exclusively in the head. This collection, focusing on the hand, challenges this dichotomy, offering theoretical and empirical perspectives on the interconnectedness and interdependence of the manual and mental. The contributors explore the possibility that the hand, far from…
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- 9780262313537
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- 1 online resource (xxx, 433 pages) :illustrations
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Ethical adaptation to climate change :human virtues of the future
Predictions about global climate change have produced both stark scenarios of environmental catastrophe and purportedly pragmatic ideas about adaptation. This book takes a different perspective exploring the idea that the challenge of adapting to global climate change is fundamentally an ethical one.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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