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Shifting practices reflections on technology practice and innovation
What happens in an established practice or work setting when a novel artifact or tool for doing work changes the familiar work routines? Any unexpected event, or change, or technological innovation creates a discontinuity; organizations and individuals must reframe taken-for-granted assumptions and practices and reposition themselves. To study innovation as a phenomenon, then, we must search fo…
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 287 pages).
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The fabric of interface mobile media design and gender
Tracing the genealogy of our physical interaction with mobile devices back to textile and needlecraft culture.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262343305
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Life after New Media: Mediation as a Vital Process
A call for a "rigorous cross-disciplinary interventions and inventions that will be equally at home with critical theory and media practice and will be prepared and able to make a difference--academically, institutionally, politically, ethically, and aesthetically" (p. 201).OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262305358
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Vulnerability in Technological Cultures: New Directions in Research and Gover…
Novel technologies and scientific advancements offer not only opportunities but risks. Technological systems are vulnerable to human error and technical malfunctioning that have far-reaching consequences: one flipped switch can cause a cascading power failure across a networked electric grid. Yet, once addressed, vulnerability accompanied by coping mechanisms may yield a more flexible and resil…
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- 1 online resource (xi, 382 pages).
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Positive computing : technology for wellbeing and human potential
"On the eve of Google's IPO in 2004, Larry Page and Sergey Brin vowed not to be evil. Today, a growing number of technologists would go further, trying to ensure that their work actively improves people's lives. Technology, so pervasive and ubiquitous, has the capacity to increase stress and suffering; but it also has the less-heralded potential to improve the well-being of individuals, society…
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Designing Bioactive Polymeric Materials for Restorative Dentistry
Restorative biomaterials in dentistry are designed to restore the shape and function of teeth. Their applicability is related to restorative procedures such as dental restorations, dentures, dental implants, and endodontic materials. Designing Bioactive Polymeric Materials for Restorative Dentistry reviews the current state of the art for restorative biomaterials and discusses the near-future t…
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- 9780429113284
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Beyond the Creative Species: Making Machines That Make Art and Music
"Bown explores the developments in machines and software that can create or support art, music, literature, and other creative artifacts"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262361750
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Small, Gritty, and Green: The Promise of America's Smaller Industrial Cities …
How small-to-midsize Rust Belt cities can play a crucial role in a low-carbon, sustainable, and relocalized future.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (xxxiv, 211 pages) :illustrations.
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Advancing Knowledge and the Knowledge Economy
"Inspired by a panel on the transformation of knowledge at the Transforming Enterprise conference"--Page x.The revolution in information technology transforms not only information and its uses but, more important, knowledge and the ways we generate and manage it. Knowledge is now seen as input, output, and capital, even if imperfectly accounted for or understood. Many businesses and public agen…
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- 1 online resource (x, 503 pages) :illustrations
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Emotion in Games Theory and Praxis
The core message of this book is: computer games best realise affective interaction. This book brings together contributions from specialists in affective computing, game studies, game artificial intelligence, user experience research, sensor technology, multi-modal interfaces and psychology that will advance the state-of-the-art in player experience research; affect modelling, induction, and s…
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- 978-3-319-41316-7
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- 11 b/w illustrations, 32 illustrations in colour
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