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Social modeling for requirements engineering
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…
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- 0262289830
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- 1 online resource (vi, 736 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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The making of economic policy :a transaction-cost politics perspective
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- 0585028923
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 192 pages).
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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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The semiotic engineering of human-computer interaction
A theory of HCI that uses concepts from semiotics and computer science to focus on the communication between designers and users during interaction.In The Semiotic Engineering of Human-Computer Interaction, Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza proposes an account of HCI that draws on concepts from semiotics and computer science to investigate the relationship between user and designer. Semiotics is the…
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- 9780262271363
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- 1 online resource (xxi, 283 pages) :illustrations.
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The second century :reconnecting customer and value chain through build-to-or…
As the auto industry moves into its second century, it suffers from low margins and a sclerotic value chain that cannot evolve with customer desires. Inventories of many weeks pile up on dealer lots and at distribution centers around the world while executives applaud marginal improvements in factory efficiency.Value streams based on Henry Ford's mass-production model from the early 1900s do no…
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- 9780262275613
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- 1 online resource (xi, 238 pages) :illustrations
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Social thinking-software practice
A collection of essays on the interrelationship of social science and software practice.Software practice--which includes software development, design, and use--needs to go beyond the traditional engineering framework. Drawing on a variety of social theory approaches, this book focuses on interdisciplinary cooperation in software practice. The topics discussed include the facilitation of collab…
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- 9780262271783
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- 1 online resource (xii, 481 pages) :illustrations
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Social dynamics
Economists have traditionally studied aggregate behavior as the outcome of individual decisions made interactively, while sociologists have focused on the role of social influences on individual behavior. Over the past decade, however, the barriers between the disciplines have broken down, resulting in the new area of social economics. Social economics is based on the assumption that individual…
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- 0262272059
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- 1 online resource (256 pages).
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Sharing expertise :beyond knowledge management
An overview of expertise sharing, an approach to knowledge management that emphasizes the human components of knowledge work in addition to information storage and retrieval. The field of knowledge management focuses on how organizations can most effectively store, manage, retrieve, and enlarge their intellectual properties. The repository view of knowledge management emphasizes the gathering, …
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- 9780262266772
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 418 pages) :illustrations
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Where the action is :the foundations of embodied interaction
"A Bradford book.""Computer science as an engineering discipline has been spectacularly successful. Yet it is also a philosophical enterprise in the way it represents the world and creates and manipulates models of reality, people, and action. In this book Paul Dourish addresses the philosophical bases of human-computer interaction. He looks at how what he calls "embodied interaction"--An appro…
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- 0262256053
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- 1 online resource (x, 233 pages) :illustrations.
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