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Designing sociable robots
"A Bradford book."Cynthia Breazeal here presents her vision of the sociable robot of the future, a synthetic creature and not merely a sophisticated tool. A sociable robot will be able to understand us, to communicate and interact with us, to learn from us and grow with us. It will be socially intelligent in a humanlike way. Eventually sociable robots will assist us in our daily lives, as colla…
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 263 pages) :illustrations.
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Designing with blends: conceptual foundations of human-computer interaction a…
How recent research in cognitive science offers new ways to understand the interaction of people and computers and develops a new literacy for well-informed, sensitive software design.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 1 online resource (xi, 229 pages) :illustrations
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Desire: its role in practical reason and the explanation of action
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- 9780262283243
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Development and evolution: complexity and change in biology
Development and Evolution surveys and illuminates the key themes of rapidly changing fields and areas of controversy that are redefining the theory and philosophy of biology. It continues Stanley Salthe's investigation of evolutionary theory, begun in his influential book Evolving Hierarchical Systems, while negating the implicit philosophical mechanisms of much of that work. Here Salthe attemp…
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 357 pages) :illustrations
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Development, Geography, and Economic Theory
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- 9780262277686
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- 1 online resource (ix, 117 pages) :illustrations
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Digital halftoning
Along with text and graphics, images are fast becoming a generic data type for general-purpose computer systems. This poses new problems for the systems designer, who must be able to preprocess digital image data for a wide variety of video and hard copy displays. Digital halftoning, the method by which the illusion of continuous-tone images are created through the arrangement of binary picture…
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 362 pages) :illustrations
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Developmental psychobiology: an interdisciplinary science
This text is the first to provide a coherent theoretical treatment of the flourishing new field of developmental psychobiology which has arisen in recent years on the crest of exciting advances in evolutionary biology, developmental neuroscience, and dynamic systems theory Michel and Moore, two of the field's key pioneers and researchers, integrate primary source information from research in b…
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- 9780262279765
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- 1 online resource (xix, 510 pages) :illustrations
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A History of Christianity in India 1707–1858
This book, a sequel to Bishop Neill's A History of Christianity in India: The Beginnings to 1707, traces its subject from the death of Aurunzib to the so-called Indian Mutiny. The history of India since 1498 is of a tremendous confrontation of cultures and religions. Since 1757, the chief part in this confrontation has been played by Britain; and the Christian missionary enterprise, especially …
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Truly human enhancement : a philosophical defense of limits
The transformative potential of genetic and cybernetic technologies to enhance human capabilities is most often either rejected on moral and prudential grounds or hailed as the future salvation of humanity. In this book, Nicholas Agar offers a more nuanced view, making a case for moderate human enhancement -- improvements to attributes and abilities that do not significantly exceed what is curr…
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- 9780262318976
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- 1 online resource (233 pages) :illustrations.
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Who's asking? : Native science, Western science, and science education
"The answers to scientific questions depend on who's asking, because the questions asked and the answers sought reflect the cultural values and orientations of the questioner. These values and orientations are most often those of Western science. In Who's Asking?, Douglas Medin and Megan Bang argue that despite the widely held view that science is objective, value-neutral, and acultural, scient…
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