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Cracking Facebook
This book presents a Facebook study on members of the Cusp Generation, or those born before the “great digital divide” of 1995. This delineation allows for a discussion on the possible socio-cultural implications of Facebook use for people of all ages. Members of the Cusp Generation are in a unique position as “part digital natives” to easily acquire and use new media technologies, whil…
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- 978-94-6300-209-7
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- Youth, Media, and Culture Series, Volume: 5
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Creativity in Art, Design and Technology
Creativity is a difficult concept, how can it best be defined, understood, applied, and practiced? This book provides important answers to these questions. Technology can enable artists to be more creative. Scientific and artistic thinking give us two complementary tools to understand the complexity of the world, with science reducing subjective experience to essential principles and art i…
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- 978-3-031-24869-6
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- XVII, 119
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- Springer Series on Cultural Computing (SSCC)
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Technology, Design and the Arts - Opportunities and Challenges
This open access book details the relationship between the artist and their created works, using tools such as information technology, computer environments, and interactive devices, for a range of information sources and application domains. This has produced new kinds of created works which can be viewed, explored, and interacted with, either as an installation or via a virtual environment s…
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- 978-3-030-42097-0
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- XXV, 387
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- Springer Series on Cultural Computing (SSCC)
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Interfacial Phenomena in Adhesion and Adhesive Bonding
This open access book reviews the recent research achievements of the investigation of interfacial phenomena in polymer/polymer and polymer/metal joint interfaces with the state-of-the-art analytical techniques not previously used in the field of adhesion and bonding. Adhesion performance is determined not only by the two-dimensional interfaces but also by a three-dimensional (3D) region having…
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- 9789819944569
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- X, 360
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Engineering Haptic Devices
This is an open access book. In this third edition of Engineering Haptic Devices the software part was rewritten from scratch and now includes even more details on tactile and texture interaction modalities. The kinematics section was improved to extend beyond a pure knowledge explanation to a comprehensive guideline on how to actually do and implement haptic kinematic functions. The control…
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- 978-3-031-04536-3
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- XXIX, 687
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- Springer Series on Touch and Haptic Systems
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- 001 ENG
Musical Haptics
This open access book offers an original interdisciplinary overview of the role of haptic feedback in musical interaction. Divided into two parts, part I examines the tactile aspects of music performance and perception, discussing how they affect user experience and performance in terms of usability, functionality and perceived quality of musical instruments. Part II presents engineering, compu…
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- 978-3-319-58316-7
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- XV, 285
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- Springer Series on Touch and Haptic Systems (SSTHS)
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- 001 MUS
Visualization of Time-Oriented Data
This is an open access book. Time is an exceptional dimension with high relevance in medicine, engineering, business, science, biography, history, planning, or project management. Understanding time-oriented data via visual representations enables us to learn from the past in order to predict, plan, and build the future. This second edition builds upon the great success of the first editi…
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- 9781447175278
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- XIX, 441
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Sonic Interactions in Virtual Environments
This open access book tackles the design of 3D spatial interactions in an audio-centered and audio-first perspective, providing the fundamental notions related to the creation and evaluation of immersive sonic experiences. The key elements that enhance the sensation of place in a virtual environment (VE) are: Immersive audio: the computational aspects of the acoustical-space properties of Vi…
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- 978-3-031-04021-4
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- Human–Computer Interaction Series
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- XXII, 428
Interdisciplinary Insights for Digital Touch Communication
Communication is increasingly moving beyond ‘ways of seeing’ to ‘ways of feeling’. This Open Access book provides social design insights and implications for HCI research and design exploring digitally mediated touch communication. It offers a socially orientated map to help navigate the complex social landscape of digitally mediated touch for communication: from everyday touch-screens…
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- 9783030245641
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- XVII, 131
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The Hackable City : Digital Media and Collaborative City-Making in the Networ…
This open access book presents a selection of the best contributions to the Digital Cities 9 Workshop held in Limerick in 2015, combining a number of the latest academic insights into new collaborative modes of city making that are firmly rooted in empirical findings about the actual practices of citizens, designers and policy makers. It explores the affordances of new media technologies for em…
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- 9789811326943
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- XV, 302 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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