Human–computer interaction Books

Book SynopsisUsing mixed and augmented reality in communities is an emerging media practice that is reshaping how we interact with our cities and neighbors. From the politics of city hall to crosswalks and playgrounds, mixed and augmented reality will offer a diverse range of new ways to interact with our communities. In 2016, apps for augmented reality politics began to appear in app stores. Similarly, the blockbuster success of PokÃmon Go illustrated how even forgotten street corners can become a magical space for play. In 2019, a court case in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, extended first amendment rights to augmented reality. For all the good that these emerging media provide, there will and have been consequences. Augmented and Mixed Reality for Communities will help students and practitioners navigate the ethical design and development of these kinds of experiences to transform their cities. As one of the first books of its kind, each chapter in the book prepares readers to contribute to the Augmented City. By providing insight into how these emerging media work, the book seeks to democratize the augmented and mixed reality space.Authors within this volume represent some of the leading scholars and practitioners working in the augmented and mixed reality space for civic media, cultural heritage, civic games, ethical design, and social justice. Readers will find practical insights for the design and development to create their own compelling experiences. Teachers will find that the text provides in-depth, critical analyses for thought-provoking classroom discussions. Table of ContentsPART 1: THE BODY IN THE XR COMMUNITY. Against the Instrumentalization of Empathy: Immersive Technologies and Social Change. The Body and the Eye-the I and the Other: Critical Reflections on the Promise of Extended Empathy in Extended Reality Configurations. The Civic Media Machine: Moving from a VR Use of Empathy Toward A Sustainable and Participatory Immersive Experience with and for the Community. The Philosopher’s Stone as a Design Framework for Defending Truth and Empowering Communities. PART 2: SITUATING XR IN THE CITY. Designing Lived Space: Community Engagement Practices in Rooted AR. The Ethics of Augmentation: A Case Study in Contemplative Mixed Reality. Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Pokémon: The Tension Between Free Speech and Municipal Tranquility. Reconceptualizing Video Games for Community Spaces. PART 3: THE AUGMENTED CITY FOR EDUCATION. Reflecting in Space on Time: Augmented Reality Interactive Digital Narratives to Explore Complex Histories. Augmented Reality, Aura, and the Design of Cultural Spaces. Building a Virtuous Cycle of Activism Using Art & Augmented Reality: A Community of Practice-Based Project. PART 4: PREPARING THE AUGMENTED CITIZEN. XR Content Authoring Challenges: The Creator-Developer Divide. Motivation Enhancement Methods for Community Building in Extended Reality.

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Book SynopsisThis book outlines the complexity in understanding different forms of cyber attacks, the actors involved, and their motivations. It explores the key challenges in investigating and prosecuting politically motivated cyber attacks, the lack of consistency within regulatory frameworks, and the grey zone that this creates, for cybercriminals to operate within.Connecting diverse literatures on cyberwarfare, cyberterrorism, and cyberprotests, and categorising the different actors involved state-sponsored/supported groups, hacktivists, online protestors this book compares the means and methods used in attacks, the various attackers, and the current strategies employed by cybersecurity agencies. It examines the current legislative framework and proposes ways in which it could be reconstructed, moving beyond the traditional and fragmented definitions used to manage offline violence.This book is an important contribution to the study of cyber attacks within the areas of criminTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. The Growing Online Threat. The Actors 3. Cyber Attacks, Means and Methods 4. Cybersecurity and Strategies 5. Cyberwar and Warfare: State and State-sponsored Attacks 6. Cyberterrorism and Ransomware: State-supported Groups 7. Other Politically Motivated Attacks: Political Activists and Hacktivists 8. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisAs a collection of ideas and methodologies, systems thinking has made an impact in organizations and in particular in the information systems field. However, this main emphasis on organizations limits the scope of systems thinking and practice. There is a need first to use systems thinking in addressing societal problems, and second to enable people involved in developing the information society to reflect on the impacts of systems and technologies in society as a whole. Thus, there are opportunities to review the scope and potential of systems thinking and practice to deal with information society-related issues. Systems Practice in the Information Society provides students of information systems as well as practicing Inofrmation Systems managers with concepts and strategies to enable them to understand and use systems thinking methodologies and address challenges posed by the development of information-based societies. This book brings experiences, ideaTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. The Information Society 3. Systems-Thinking 4. Applied Systems-Thinking 5. Idealist Pattern for Practice in the Information Society 6. Strategic Pattern of Pracitice for the Information Society 7. Power-based Pattern for Practice in the Information Society 8. A Dynamic Practice Framework for Living and Working in the Information Society 9. Conclusions

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Book SynopsisThis book describes the full life cycle of a design from conception through abandonment, and shows what human factor inputs engineers and designers need at each stage of development.Table of ContentsSystems and Systems Engineering. Standards, Codes, Specifications, and Other Work Products. Human-Factors Methods. Human Physical Characteristics. Human Mental Characteristics. Personnel Selection and Training. System Requirements. Postscript. Appendices. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis will be the first book devoted completely to task analysis. In a practical manner, the authors focus on the methodologies behind the task analysis. Every step of the process will be covered in detail with tons of figures and example products. Check lists and forms are provided so the reader can use them in their own testing procedures.Table of ContentsPreface xi About the book xiv Acknowledgments xviii Chapter 1: Introducing User and Task Analysis for Interface Design 1 Part 1: Understanding the Context of User and Task Analysis 21 Chapter 2: Thinking about Users 23 Chapter 3: Thinking about Tasks 51 Chapter 4: Thinking about the Users' Environment 91 Chapter 5: Making the Business Case for Site Visits 111 Part 2: Getting Ready For Site Visits 127 Chapter 6: Selecting Techniques 129 Chapter 7: Setting Up Site Visits 155 Chapter 8: Preparing for the Site Visits 193 Part 3: Conducting the Site Visit 241 Chapter 9: Conducting the Site Visit—Honing Your Observation Skills 243 Chapter 10: Conducting the Site Visit—Honing Your Interviewing Skills 273 Part 4: Making the Transition from Analysis to Design 295 Chapter 11: Analyzing and Presenting the Data You Have Collected 299 Chapter 12: Working toward the Interface Design 345 Chapter 13: Prototyping the Interface Design 375 Chapter 14: User and Task Analysis for Documentation and Training 405 Bibliography 439 Appendix A: Template for a Site Visit Plan 447 Appendix B: Resources 455 Appendix C: Guidelines for User-Interface Design 457 Index 479

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Book SynopsisConcerns computer-based information systems that can affect the decision making behavior of their users. It tells the reader how to describe these systems and how to differentiate one from the other. Its main features are: a broad definition of Decision Support Systems (DSS), a process view of decision making, which leads to viewing DSS as interventions into the processes through which decisions are made, and a descriptive rather than a prescriptive approach.Table of ContentsA Framework for DSS Research and Practice. Describing DSS: A Three-Tiered Approach. System Restrictiveness. Decisional Guidance. Conclusion. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisHumanless space exploration, as in the use of Rover in exploring Mars, has demonstrated the importance of human-computer communications. This book provides a comprehensive look at 'general automata' as a method of establishing the fundamentals for communication in human-computer systems (HCS).Trade Review"Essential teaching resource; exhaustive bibliography, including Koenig's 34 previously published works on GAM in HCS." (CHOICE, April 2007) "Readers have been provided with more than sufficient detail-led analysis and practical illustrations…" (Kybernetes, Volume 36, No.34, 2007)Table of ContentsPreface. 1. Introduction. 1.1 Considerations for Establishing Knowledge Structures for Computers. 1.2 Knowledge About Automata as a Subset of World Knowledge. 1.2.1 General Automata. 1.2.2 Extracting and Storing the Meanings of Sentences. 1.2.3 Associating Knowledge. 1.2.4 Establishing Conclusions and Inferences. Exercises. 2. A General Automaton. 2.1 Formal Analysis for a General Automaton. 2.1.1 General Analysis. 2.1.2 Graph Model. 2.1.3 Select Properties of the Graph Model. 2.2 An Application of the Disciplines to the Modeling of Natural Automata. 2.2.1 A Case Study. 2.2.2 Required State Changes. 2.2.3 Algorithm for Determining Required State Changes. Exercises. 3. A General Automaton: Detailed Analysis. 3.1 Distinguishable Receptors and Effectors. 3.2 Nonhomogeneous Environments. 3.3 Transformation Response Components. 3.4 Nonshared Environments Interpreted as Distinguishable. 3.4.1 Model for Performance in Both Shared and Nonshared Environments. 3.4.2 Model for Performance in Shared Environments. Exercises. 4. Processing of Knowledge About Automata. 4.1 Formulation of a Language Information Theory. 4.1.1 Class 1 Sentence. 4.1.2 Class 2 Sentence. 4.1.3 Class 3 Sentence. 4.1.4 Class 4 Sentence. 4.1.5 Class 5 Sentence. 4.1.6 Class 6 Sentence. 4.1.7 Class 7 Sentence. 4.2 Extracting and Storing the Meaning of Sentences by Computer. 4.2.1 Description of an Algorithm. 4.3 Knowledge Association. 4.3.1 Association by Combining Graphs Through Common Points. 4.3.2 Associations by Combining Graph (n + 1)-Tuples. 4.3.3 Computer Methods for Association of Knowledge. 4.4 Deductive Processes. 4.4.1 Deductive Processes Related to Association Through Common Points. 4.4.2 Deductive Processes Related to Association by Combining Graph Tuples. 4.4.3 Deductive Processes with Aristotelian Form A as a Premise. 4.5 Inferences. 4.5.1 Inferences Related to a Single Graph Tuple of Associated Knowledge. 4.5.2 Inferences Related to More than One Graph Tuple of Associated Knowledge. Exercises. 5. A General System of Interactive Automata. 5.1 Formal Analysis for a General System of Interactive Automata. 5.1.1 General Analysis. 5.1.2 Microsystem Model. 5.1.3 Macrosystem Model. 5.2 Example Applications. 5.2.1 A Two-Component System. 5.2.2 A System of Many Components. Exercises. 6. Processing of Knowledge About Systems of Automata. 6.1 A General System of Interactive Automata: Detailed Analysis. 6.1.1 The Microsystem Model. 6.1.2 The Macrosystem Model. 6.2 Knowledge Structures for Sentences Describing Systems of Interactive Automata. Exercises. 7. Changing Expressions of Knowledge for Communication from One Form and Style to Another. 7.1 Introduction. 7.2 Sets and Relations. 7.3 Establishing Open Expressions and Open Sentences. 7.4 Selecting Subsets of Open Expressions. 7.5 Applying the Results of the Above Analysis. 7.6 Summary and Conclusions. Exercises. 8. Electronic Security Through Pseudo Languages. 8.1 Introduction. 8.2 Defi nitions, Sets, and Relations. 8.3 Analysis for E-Security Through Pseudo Languages. 8.3.1 A Basic E-Security System. 8.3.2 A Two-Step Encryption System. 8.3.3 E-Signing. 8.4 Summary and Conclusions. Exercises. Appendix A: Analysis for an Effective Operation of a General Automaton. A.1 Introduction. A.2 Recursive Methods. A.3 Effective Operation Analysis. Exercises. Appendix B: Analysis for an Effective Operation of a General System of Interactive Automata. B.1 Introduction. B.2 Microsystem Graphs. B.3 Macrosystem Graphs. B.4 Example. Exercises. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisCompiles more than three years of participatory research in Warcraft play and culture in the US and China. Nardi introduces us to the history, structure, and culture of Warcraft; argues for applying activity theory and theories of aesthetic experience to

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Book SynopsisCompiles more than three years of participatory research in Warcraft play and culture in the US and China. Nardi introduces us to the history, structure, and culture of Warcraft; argues for applying activity theory and theories of aesthetic experience to

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Book SynopsisRichard Browning is the founder of human propulsion technology start-up Gravity Industries Ltd, which he officially launched in March 2017 after inventing, building and patenting an Iron Man-like' flight system, the Daedalus flight suit. A former Royal Marine reservist, Richard worked on a number of innovations and new technologies at BP before becoming involved in several start-ups, including a solar project in Kenya, lighting schools via reconditioning old car batteries.His passion for flight and his vision for Gravity are inspired by his father, an aeronautical engineer and inventor.Trade ReviewRichard Browning is a real-life Tony Stark. * Wired *Like afterburner in the veins! Inspires you to rethink the impossible. * Tucker “Cinco” Hamilton, F-35 Test Pilot *Learning how to leave the ground in Richard's invention felt like every dream I’ve had of flying. * Adam Savage *Browning has made it his life’s mission to put man in the air. Extraordinary. * Daily Mail *The king of the rocket men. * Red Bull *This daredevil is clearly on fire. Rocket man Richard Browning leaves a trail of sparks behind him. * The Mirror *No one embodies the spirit of adventure like Richard Browning * Craig Glenday, Guinness World Records *Inspirational. * Daily Express *The man behind the jet-pack flying suit on what it's like to be a real-life Tony Stark. * Stuff *His brilliant book delves into the incredible journey that led to the realisation of the flight suit, his influences, unconventional thinking and of course exactly what it's like to soar around the skies like a real-life superhero. * The Malestrom *Icarus rebooted: the man who achieved human flight. Truly inspirational. * The Book of Man *Starting with Tupperware and sticky tape, Richard Browning was determined to reach for the stars... as this engaging book shows. Interspersed throughout are lessons you can learn from Browning's success. * Daily Mail - Book of the Week *

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Book SynopsisThe contributions to this volume examine the implications of recent advances in artificial intelligence and ask whether machines with artificial intelligence can develop artifical minds.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction (Donald Broadbent, University of Oxford) 1. Setting the Scene: the Claim and the Issues (Roger Penrose, University of Oxford) 2. The Approach Through Symbols (Allen Newell, Carnegie Mellon University; Richard Young, MRC Applied Psychology Unit, Cambridge; Thad Polk, Carnegie Mellon University) 3. Sub-Symbolic Modeling of Hand-Eye Coordination (Dana H Ballard, University of Oxford) 4. Networks in the Brain (Edmund Rolls, University of Oxford) 5. Computational Vision (Mike Brady, University of Oxford) 6. The Handling of Natural Language (Gerald Gazdar, University of Sussex) 7. The Impact on Philosophy (Margaret A Boden, University of Sussex).

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Book SynopsisThis volume launches a series that will focus on providing chapters that advance our understanding of human performance in organizational systems as cognitive engineering principles are applied. It includes a historical review of a cognitive engineering research at a national laboratory.Table of ContentsPreface. Cognitive engineering research at Riso from 1962-1979 (K.J. Vicente). Developing adaptability: a theory for the design of integrated-embedded training systems (S.W.J. Kozlowski et al.). Using pathfinder networks to analyze procedural knowledge in interactions with advanced technology (D.J. Gillan, N.J. Cooke). Some guidelines for conducting a cognitive task analysis (G. Klein, L. Militello). The application of human modeling technology to the design, evaluation and operation of complex systems (W. Zachary et al.). Training teams to take initiative: critical thinking in novel situations (M.S. Cohen, B.B. Thompson). Use of commercial, off-the-shelf, simulations for team research (C.A. Bowers, F. Jentsch). Understanding human performance in complex environments: research paradigms and emerging application areas (J.M. Hitt II, et al.).

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Book Synopsis Network revolutions of the past have shaped the present and set the stage for the revolution we are experiencing today In an era of seemingly instant change, it''s easy to think that today''s revolutionsin communications, business, and many areas of daily lifeare unprecedented. Today''s changes may be new and may be happening faster than ever before. But our ancestors at times were just as bewildered by rapid upheavals in what we now call networksthe physical links that bind any society together. In this fascinating book, former FCC chairman Tom Wheeler brings to life the two great network revolutions of the past and uses them to help put in perspective the confusion, uncertainty, and even excitement most people face today. The first big network revolution was the invention of movable-type printing in the fifteenth century. This book, its millions of predecessors, and even such broad trends as the Reformation, the Renaissance, and the multiple scientific revo

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Book SynopsisPresents the investigation that the renowned cultural theorist and mathematician Brian Rotman began in his previous books Signifying Nothing and Ad Infinitum ...the Ghost in Turing's Machine: exploring certain signs and the conceptual innovations and subjectivities that they facilitate or foreclose.Trade Review“Becoming Beside Ourselves is a bold, provocative, and highly original argument about the relation between medial effects and changing manifestations of subjectivity. It traces a sweeping trajectory from what Brian Rotman calls the ‘lettered self,’ associated with alphabetic inscription and the codex printed book, to the subject as distributed assemblage associated with network culture. While others have made parts of this kind of argument before, Rotman’s analysis is unique in placing special emphasis on gesture and revealing its traces in orality and print. In a brilliant synthesis, he mixes evolutionary theory with a Deleuzian view of agent-as-assemblage, arguing that computational media both reveal and perform distributed cognition as a crucial aspect of human being-in-the-world. Essential reading for anyone interested in the interrelations between computational media, contemporary subjectivity, and human evolution.”—Katherine Hayles, University of California, Los Angeles“Brian Rotman’s exciting new text not only adds to his previous work on signifying technology (zero, infinity), it expands his study of abstraction to encompass the construction of subjectivity itself. Becoming Beside Ourselves will open up all kinds of unexplored terrains, from grammatology to psychoanalysis, from the history of technology to the study of culture and religion.”—Fredric Jameson, Duke UniversityTable of ContentsForeword: Machine Bodies, Ghosts, and Para-Selves: Confronting the Singularity with Brian Rotman / Timothy Lenoir ix Preface xxxi Acknowledgments xxxv Aura xxxvii Introduction: Lettered Selves and Beyond 1 Part I 1. The Alphabetic Body 13 2. Gesture and Non-Alphabetic Writing 33 Interlude 3. Technological Mathematics 57 Part II 4. Parallel Selves 81 5. Ghost Effects 107 Notes 139 References 151 Index 163

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Book SynopsisThe cultural theorist and media designer Anne Balsamo calls for transforming learning practices to inspire culturally attuned technological imaginations.Trade Review“Designing Culture is a tour de force, offering a unique vision of the possibilities for a contemporary cultural studies. Refusing to separate research from pedagogy, technology from culture, or innovation from imagination, Anne Balsamo maps the concrete complexities of specific design processes, and opens up new ways of thinking about—and teaching—technocultures in relation to broader socio-political fields. Her book is required reading for anyone working with contemporary cultures.”—Lawrence Grossberg, author of Cultural Studies in the Future Tense“The argument pursued throughout the book is coherent and sustained. It makes a valuable intervention in thinking about design and design processes, technocultures and technological innovation. If you want a taster, try the website – http://designingculture.net.” * European Journal of Communication *“Designing Culture is a road map to the technological imagination, provided by one of our best theorists and practitioners. Anne Balsamo’s architecture of the future rests solidly on her own experiments, inventions, theoretical engagements, pedagogical innovations, and interactive hermeneutics. This is cultural theory at its best, brilliant, bold, and daring.”—Cathy N. Davidson, Duke University“This is an erudite yet accessible cross-disciplinary text that makes a substantial contribution to the field of cultural studies, and also serves as a welcome and timely call to arms not only for scholars and scientists in the humanities and technology, but also for those engaged in educational policy, institutional strategy and innovation.” -- Helen Keegan * Times Higher Education *“In this sweeping expansion of the classic innovation literature, Anne Balsamo portrays both the necessity and the challenge of cultivating the technological imagination in all of us. Her experiences as a researcher and designer who has worked across cultural domains—as a humanist in the academy, as a research scientist in an industrial innovation center, and as an entrepreneur in Silicon Valley—give her a unique ability to foster conversations among diverse groups of thinkers who want to engage with issues of culture and technological innovation. Balsamo not only describes ways to take culture seriously in the design of new technologies but also elaborates why it is ethically imperative to do so. Her insights into expanding the traditional considerations of socio-technical design to consider issues of culture are coming at a critical time. This is a great book that should be read by anyone interested in creating new technologies of imagination—for enhancing learning in the twenty-first century and creating expressive cultural platforms for the future.”—John Seely Brown, former Chief Scientist of Xerox Corporation and Director of Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)“Balsamo’s passionate concerns with pedagogy, gender equality, and imagining new futures enliven every page... I drew much from Balsamo’s energy and enthusiasm in inviting us to revisit a collection of some of the most ingenious experiments in the history of digital technology—wonderfully original inventions of an extraordinarily creative generation that we have already come to take for granted, or even forgotten.” -- Bonnie Nardi * American Studies *“Designing Culture is a welcome and important intervention into many contemporary approaches to technology, innovation and design that construct technology as a final outcome of a singular imagining, or as a forceful determiner of socio-cultural practices. The book is powerful because of the way Balsamo makes what are crucial and profound interventions seem both obvious and logical. The breadth of topics and examples that she brings to the table to underpin her arguments also demonstrate the pertinence and real need for such a book across a whole set of disciplines, approaches and institutions.” -- Helen Thronham * Culture Machine *Table of ContentsContents of http://designingculture.net/ vii Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Taking Culture Seriously in the Age of Innovation 1 1. Gendering the Technological Imagination 27 2. The Performance of Innovation 51 3. Public Interactives and the Design of Technological Literacies 95 4. Designing Learning: The University as a Site of Technocultural Innovation 133 Conclusion. The Work of a Book in a Digital Age 185 Notes 199 Bibliography 255 Index 279Women of the World Talk Back: An Interactive Multimedia Documentary (enclosed dvd)

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Book SynopsisEngaging and scientifically rigorous, this fully updated edition of i-Minds explores screen-based technology's assimilation into our lives, pondering them as both godsend and plague, demonstrating how constant connectivity is changing our brains and exploring positive steps to take to embrace new technologies.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: How and Why 1. The Shift 2. Technological Integration Versus Technological Interference 3. The Pull 4. The Power of Sound: History and Biology 5. The Biological Science — What's Really Going on in Our Brains? 6. Boxed In — Anxiety in the Masses 7. From Digital Natives to i-Kids8. The Story of Alpha 9. The Narrowing of Minds Part 2: Process and Development 10. Of Systems and Process 11. Back to Biology: Epigenetics and Vestibular Regulation 12. From i-Kids to i-Brains13. Learning, Play, and Parenting— Conflicting Needs in a Busy, Busy World 14. Socialization — Child's Play Part 3: Education, Games, Power, and Politics 15. The Good, the Bad, and the Neutral 16. Of Games and Gaming 17. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly— Esports and the Business of Gaming 18. Beyond Illusions — Spatial Planning, Arbitrary Learning, and Geolocation Skills 19. Breaking the Trance 20. i-Tech and Healthcare — To Care or i-Care Part 4: Trust, Governance, and the Attention Ecconomy 21. i-Trust and i-Privacy— Social, Economic, and Political Manipulation 22. Governance Part One — Self-Governance and the Rise of the Attention Economy 23. Governance Part Two — Crossing the Floor and the Perils of Protection24. The Attention Economy 25. Governance and Safety — Electromagnetic Explorations Part 5: The Interpersonal 26. Community, Communication, Digital Mediation, and Friendship 27. Sex and Sexuality Part A — Adult Play 28. Sex and Sexuality Part B — Brain Wiring and the Death of Intimacy 29. Sex and Sexuality Part C — From Children to Elders, Communication, and Lifestyle Solutions 30. Benefactors of Change 31. i-Addiction and i-Life— The Beginnings of a New World 32. The Tipping Point 33. Our Future Our Selves Epilogue: So What to Do? Notes Index About the Author About New Society Publishers

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"...solid ideas for reducing digital dependency." —Publishers Weekly "Will likely prove to be a popular title for the many parents who want to wean their family's device-dependence." —Library Journal "...solid ideas for reducing digital dependency." —Publishers Weekly "With advice on removing televisions from bedrooms and limiting screen time or tablet usage to a couple of hours per week, this is a helpful guide for parents who hope to curb their family's electronic habits." —Foreword Reviews "A digital minimalist’s must-have guide to launching your kids into a life of real connectedness and authenticity." —Joshua Becker, #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Things That Matter "Martinko expertly and urgently takes us deeper into the hidden horrors of too much screen time on the growing child. Then she throws us all a life preserver with the most practical, gentle advice I’ve seen." —Angela Hanscom, author, Balanced and Barefoot: How Unrestricted Outdoor Play Makes for Strong, Confident, and Capable Children "Katherine Martinko makes the case that not only is a screen-free childhood possible, but reducing our children's time on screen is essential for their happiness, sanity, and health. Thoroughly researched and beautifully written, it should be mandatory reading for all parents." —Catherine Price, founder, ScreenLifeBalance.com, author, How to Break Up with Your Phone "The passionate, clear-eyed, and thoroughly practical guide every parent needs to fight the good fight against the excesses of digital today." —David Sax, bestselling author, The Revenge of Analog and The Future is Analog "Truthful and transparent expert information combined with pragmatic and practical advice on how to liberate parents and “unplug” children. A must-read for any parent who wants to bring back the joys of parenting…and the fun of childhood." —Dr. Mari Swingle (R. Psych), author, i-Minds, director, Swingle Clinic "It takes an enormous effort to show our kids the world beyond their screens, but Katherine Martinko teaches us how to get it done in this practical, empathetic, and fascinating new guide." —Michael Harris, author, Solitude and The End of Absence "Martinko provides an in-depth, well-researched guide filled with reflections on her own journey with (but of course mostly without!) screens, and the joy she has experienced from “unplugging.” A useful guide for those keen to begin their own screen-free journey." —Outdoor Play Canada "Martinko has written a must-read for parents struggling with screen time (all of us!). Her well-researched book shows the urgent need to free kids from screens and release them into the outdoors. She offers frazzled parents achievable practical advice rooted in the challenges of parenting today." —Dr. Mariana Brussoni, professor, University of British Columbia, director, Human Early Learning PartnershipTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Foreword by Lenore Skenazy Introduction: The Beautiful Chaos Part I: The Personal and Social Costs of Screens Chapter 1: The Kids Are Not All Right Chapter 2: Amplify, Don't Amputate Part II: How to Take Control of Screens Chapter 3: Begin as You Mean to Go On (Babies & Toddlers) Chapter 4: Freedom to Play (Elementary-Aged Kids) Chapter 5: Grant Freedom, Demand Responsibility (Adolescents) Chapter 6: But Everyone's Doing It Chapter 7: The Parent's Role Chapter 8: School of Screens Further Reading Endnotes Index About the Author About New Society Publishers

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Book SynopsisThis Element presents an alternative eye tracking methodology for investigating translators' web search behaviour as well as a systematic approach to gauging the reasoning behind translators' highly complex and context-dependent interaction with search engines and the Web.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Existing studies; 3. Methodology; 4. Findings and discussion; 5. Conclusion; References.

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Book SynopsisWearable devices are being used by an increasing number of elite-level sports teams to manage and control the health, performance, and productivity of their athletes. Drawing upon a wide range of interdisciplinary resources, Wearable Technology in Elite Sport reveals how wearable devices are used to quantify athletic bodies in ways that have a number of undesirable consequences for the embodied subject. This book identifies some of the problematic consequences of excessive âdataveillanceâ in sport by interrogating the process by which wearable data is produced, represented, and enacted in the governance of athletic behaviour.The book provides a set of conceptual resources for thinking critically about the powerful role played by measurement systems in shaping athletic embodiment. The themes that this book examines include an exploration of how technological devices serve an important disciplinary function in elite sport and how wearable-derived data might act to affectTable of Contents1. Elite sport and the cult of measurement. 2. Datafication and the cultivation of the neoliberal subject. 3. Producing data. 4. Exploring the representation and enactment of wearable data. 5. Sensing data: Navigating an algorithmic world. 6. The social and ethical implications of excessive datafication.

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Book SynopsisAI by Design introduces AI and its importance to our future. Exploring behavioural psychology, economics, and real-life and historical examples, Campbell predicts five future scenarios with AI, orientated around the "Singularity" - the moment when AI exceeds human capabilities, presenting perhaps the biggest challenge to our existence.Trade Review"The book offers a comprehensive discussion of the challenges of AI and begins to discuss ways that we can prevent the worst-case scenarios. This book will help readers to think critically about technology and begin to question the stories they have been told about technology being bad. Instead they can decide to take control, using design and planning to make better technology." --Carol J. Smith, Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute, www.carologic.com"An essential and authoritative overview of the dazzling future of artificial intelligence and a wake-up call to the world to join together to control the development of AI for the benefit—and, possibly, preservation—of humanity." --Blackpool Gazette, 'Must-read of the week', 17 MayTable of ContentsAuthor. Acknowledgement. 1 Sleepwalking into Singularity. 2 AI by Design and the Future-Back Methodology. 3 Should We Be Afraid of the Current State of AI? 4 Current State of AI Governance & Regulation. 5 Current State of AI Ethics. 6 Options for Our Future with AI. 7 Creating a Roadmap – A Plan for Living with Artificial Intelligence. 8 A New Hope for Artificial Intelligence. Conclusion. Index.

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Book SynopsisAn influential scientist in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) explains its fundamental concepts and how it is changing culture and society.A particular form of AI is now embedded in our tech, our infrastructure, and our lives. How did it get there? Where and why should we be concerned? And what should we do now? The Shortcut: Why Intelligent Machines Do Not Think Like Us provides an accessible yet probing exposure of AI in its prevalent form today, proposing a new narrative to connect and make sense of events that have happened in the recent tumultuous past, and enabling us to think soberly about the road ahead.This book is divided into ten carefully crafted and easily digestible chapters. Each chapter grapples with an important question for AI. Ranging from the scientific concepts that underpin the technology to wider implications for society, it develops a unified description using tools from different disciplines and avoiding unnecessTrade Review"Nello Cristianini’s brilliant book accessibly explains the shortcuts computer scientists took in their search for artificial intelligence, and how the interaction between engineers, companies and consumers created our online world. The shortcuts enabled problems to be solved, but using them on a massive scale also had unintended consequences. One of the most important points of this book is that the feedback loops between humans and AIs are changing us. Another is that the form taken by AI and IT could have been different, and that regulation and scrutiny could make it more compatible with human flourishing. The book tells key stories in the history of AI and big data, and introduces many critical ideas lucidly. The Shortcut is itself an elegant shortcut to understanding."-- James Ladyman, Professor of Philosophy, University of Bristol, President-elect of The British Society for the Philosophy of Science "Nello Cristianini is a prominent AI researcher who has contributed to the field for more than twenty-five years. In this exquisitely written book, rich in anecdotes, he traces the history of AI over that time up to the latest developments. In looking to the future, he takes an unusual but revealing perspective that the present form of AI is a social machine which has effects -- intended and unintended -- on us."--Chris Watkins, Professor of Machine Learning, Royal Holloway, University of London“The writing style is wonderful. Clear, lucid and unfussy. Very readable and very accessible. The first four chapters in particular make accessible the basic difference between rule-based programming and the pattern-based approach of ML techniques. They provide a clear and engaging account of the field's development. These chapters also put forward a persuasive account of the notion of 'intelligence' and distinguish human intelligence from that of other agents - it is very well done, and convincing. The remaining chapters tackle many different applications and consequences of intelligent agents, including unintended harms, social media data harvesting, recommender systems, addiction, manipulation and polarisation, social machines and regulation.”--Karen Yeung, Interdisciplinary Professorial Fellow in Law, Ethics and Informatics, University of Birmingham and Birmingham Law School, UK"Written in a clear and engaging style, this book does not just describe how Artificial Intelligence evolved, it also confronts important questions about the nature of intelligence, our relation with technology, and how we can be affected by it. I really enjoyed being taken on the journey form my previously comfortable analogue world to today’s and tomorrow’s world of living with digital intelligence."--Stafford Lightman, FMedSci, FRS, Professor of Medicine, University of Bristol, UKTable of ContentsABOUT THE AUTHOR. PROLOGUE. 1 The Search for Intelligence. 2 The Shortcut. 3 Finding Order in the World. 4 Lady Lovelace Was Wrong. 5 Unintended Behaviour. 6 Microtargeting and Mass Persuasion. 7 The Feedback Loop. 8 The Glitch. 9 Social Machines. 10 Regulating, Not Unplugging. EPILOGUE. BIBLIOGRAPHY. INDEX.

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Book SynopsisThis collection of essays explores the present and future of digital communication through a range of interdisciplinary approaches, all of which focus on the so-called metaverse. The metaverse is a combination of multiple elements of technology including virtual reality, augmented reality, and video where users live within a digital universe. The vision for this new universe is that its users can work, play, and stay connected with friends through everything. Such a vision is hinted at in existing phenomena such as online game universes.Table of Contents1. Geneses, Evolution and Metafuture, 2. The Metaverse in Communication: Reflections from Neuroscience, 3. New Linguistic Spaces in Cyberculture: The Influence of the Metaverse on the Minifiction of Social Networks, 4. Metaverse and New Narrative: Storyliving in the Age of Metaverse, 5. Customized Metaverse: The Study of Factors Influencing the Use of Humanlike Avatars of Social Media Content Creators in Communication with Their Audience, 6. Metaverse and Diversity, 7. Queering the Metaverse: Queer Approaches to Virtual Reality in Contemporary Art, 8. Film Practices in the Metaverse: Methodological Approach for Prosocial VR Storytelling Creation, 9. Video Game Design: A Blueprint for the Metaverse and Education, 10. Film Production and Architecture Education in the Metaverse, 11. Gone with the Wind: From Virtual Reality to the Metaverse at Film Festivals

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Book SynopsisRational thinking as exemplified in mathematical cognition is immensely important in the modern world. This book documents how a group of three eighth-grade girls developed specific group practices typical of such thinking in an online educational experience. A longitudinal case study tracks the team through eight hour-long sessions, following the students' meaning-making processes through their mutual chat responses preserved in computer logs coordinated with their geometric actions. The examination of data focuses on key areas of the team's development: its effective team collaboration, its productive mathematical discourse, its enacted use of dynamic-geometry tools, and its ability to identify and construct dynamic-geometry dependencies. This detailed study of group cognition serves as a paradigmatic example of computer-supported collaborative learning, incorporating a unique model of human-computer interaction analysis applied to the use of innovative educational technology. A valuable resource for researchers, instructors, and students alike, it offers concrete suggestions for improving educational practice.

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Book SynopsisA timely book containing foundations and current research directions on emotion recognition by facial expression, voice, gesture and biopotential signalsThis book provides a comprehensive examination of the research methodology of different modalities of emotion recognition. Key topics of discussion include facial expression, voice and biopotential signal-based emotion recognition. Special emphasis is given to feature selection, feature reduction, classifier design and multi-modal fusion to improve performance of emotion-classifiers.Written by several experts, the book includes several tools and techniques, including dynamic Bayesian networks, neural nets, hidden Markov model, rough sets, type-2 fuzzy sets, support vector machines and their applications in emotion recognition by different modalities. The book ends with a discussion on emotion recognition in automotive fields to determine stress and anger of the drivers, responsible for degradation of tTable of ContentsPreface xix Acknowledgments xxvii Contributors xxix 1 Introduction to Emotion Recognition 1 Amit Konar, Anisha Halder, and Aruna Chakraborty 1.1 Basics of Pattern Recognition, 1 1.2 Emotion Detection as a Pattern Recognition Problem, 2 1.3 Feature Extraction, 3 1.4 Feature Reduction Techniques, 15 1.5 Emotion Classification, 17 1.6 Multimodal Emotion Recognition, 24 1.7 Stimulus Generation for Emotion Arousal, 24 1.8 Validation Techniques, 26 1.9 Summary, 27 References, 28 Author Biographies, 44 2 Exploiting Dynamic Dependencies Among Action Units for Spontaneous Facial Action Recognition 47 Yan Tong and Qiang Ji 2.1 Introduction, 48 2.2 Related Work, 49 2.3 Modeling the Semantic and Dynamic Relationships Among AUs With a DBN, 50 2.4 Experimental Results, 60 2.5 Conclusion, 64 References, 64 Author Biographies, 66 3 Facial Expressions: A Cross-Cultural Study 69 Chandrani Saha, Washef Ahmed, Soma Mitra, Debasis Mazumdar, and Sushmita Mitra 3.1 Introduction, 69 3.2 Extraction of Facial Regions and Ekman’s Action Units, 71 3.3 Cultural Variation in Occurrence of Different AUs, 76 3.4 Classification Performance Considering Cultural Variability, 79 3.5 Conclusion, 84 References, 84 Author Biographies, 86 4 A Subject-Dependent Facial Expression Recognition System 89 Chuan-Yu Chang and Yan-Chiang Huang 4.1 Introduction, 89 4.2 Proposed Method, 91 4.3 Experiment Result, 103 4.4 Conclusion, 109 Acknowledgment, 110 References, 110 Author Biographies, 112 5 Facial Expression Recognition Using Independent Component Features and Hidden Markov Model 113 Md. Zia Uddin and Tae-Seong Kim 5.1 Introduction, 114 5.2 Methodology, 115 5.3 Experimental Results, 123 5.4 Conclusion, 125 Acknowledgments, 125 References, 126 Author Biographies, 127 6 Feature Selection for Facial Expression Based on Rough Set Theory 129 Yong Yang and Guoyin Wang 6.1 Introduction, 129 6.2 Feature Selection for Emotion Recognition Based on Rough Set Theory, 131 6.3 Experiment Results and Discussion, 137 6.4 Conclusion, 143 Acknowledgments, 143 References, 143 Author Biographies, 145 7 Emotion Recognition from Facial Expressions Using Type-2 Fuzzy Sets 147 Anisha Halder, Amit Konar, Aruna Chakraborty, and Atulya K. Nagar 7.1 Introduction, 148 7.2 Preliminaries on Type-2 Fuzzy Sets, 150 7.3 Uncertainty Management in Fuzzy-Space for Emotion Recognition, 152 7.4 Fuzzy Type-2 Membership Evaluation, 157 7.5 Experimental Details, 161 7.6 Performance Analysis, 167 7.7 Conclusion, 175 References, 176 Author Biographies, 180 8 Emotion Recognition from Non-frontal Facial Images 183 Wenming Zheng, Hao Tang, and Thomas S. Huang 8.1 Introduction, 184 8.2 A Brief Review of Automatic Emotional Expression Recognition, 187 8.3 Databases for Non-frontal Facial Emotion Recognition, 191 8.4 Recent Advances of Emotion Recognition from Non-Frontal Facial Images, 196 8.5 Discussions and Conclusions, 205 Acknowledgments, 206 References, 206 Author Biographies, 211 9 Maximum a Posteriori Based Fusion Method for Speech Emotion Recognition 215 Ling Cen, Zhu Liang Yu, and Wee Ser 9.1 Introduction, 216 9.2 Acoustic Feature Extraction for Emotion Recognition, 219 9.3 Proposed Map-Based Fusion Method, 223 9.4 Experiment, 229 9.5 Conclusion, 232 References, 232 Author Biographies, 234 10 Emotion Recognition in Naturalistic Speech and Language—A Survey 237 Felix Weninger, Martin W¨ollmer, and Björn Schuller 10.1 Introduction, 238 10.2 Tasks and Applications, 239 10.3 Implementation and Evaluation, 244 10.4 Challenges, 253 10.5 Conclusion and Outlook, 257 Acknowledgment, 259 References, 259 Author Biographies, 267 11 EEG-Based Emotion Recognition Using Advanced Signal Processing Techniques 269 Panagiotis C. Petrantonakis and Leontios J. Hadjileontiadis 11.1 Introduction, 270 11.2 Brain Activity and Emotions, 271 11.3 EEG-ER Systems: An Overview, 272 11.4 Emotion Elicitation, 273 11.5 Advanced Signal Processing in EEG-ER, 275 11.6 Concluding Remarks and Future Directions, 287 References, 289 Author Biographies, 292 12 Frequency Band Localization on Multiple Physiological Signals for Human Emotion Classification Using DWT 295 M. Murugappan 12.1 Introduction, 296 12.2 Related Work, 297 12.3 Research Methodology, 299 12.4 Experimental Results and Discussions, 306 12.5 Conclusion, 310 12.6 Future Work, 310 Acknowledgments, 310 References, 310 Author Biography, 312 13 Toward Affective Brain–Computer Interface: Fundamentals and Analysis of EEG-Based Emotion Classification 315 Yuan-Pin Lin, Tzyy-Ping Jung, Yijun Wang, and Julie Onton 13.1 Introduction, 316 13.2 Materials and Methods, 323 13.3 Results and Discussion, 327 13.4 Conclusion, 332 13.5 Issues and Challenges Toward ABCIs, 332 Acknowledgments, 336 References, 336 Author Biographies, 340 14 Bodily Expression for Automatic Affect Recognition 343 Hatice Gunes, Caifeng Shan, Shizhi Chen, and YingLi Tian 14.1 Introduction, 344 14.2 Background and Related Work, 345 14.3 Creating a Database of Facial and Bodily Expressions: The FABO Database, 353 14.4 Automatic Recognition of Affect from Bodily Expressions, 356 14.5 Automatic Recognition of Bodily Expression Temporal Dynamics, 361 14.6 Discussion and Outlook, 367 14.7 Conclusions, 369 Acknowledgments, 370 References, 370 Author Biographies, 375 15 Building a Robust System for Multimodal Emotion Recognition 379 Johannes Wagner, Florian Lingenfelser, and Elisabeth André 15.1 Introduction, 380 15.2 Related Work, 381 15.3 The Callas Expressivity Corpus, 382 15.4 Methodology, 386 15.5 Multisensor Data Fusion, 390 15.6 Experiments, 395 15.7 Online Recognition System, 399 15.8 Conclusion, 403 Acknowledgment, 404 References, 404 Author Biographies, 410 16 Semantic Audiovisual Data Fusion for Automatic Emotion Recognition 411 Dragos Datcu and Leon J. M. Rothkrantz 16.1 Introduction, 412 16.2 Related Work, 413 16.3 Data Set Preparation, 416 16.4 Architecture, 418 16.5 Results, 431 16.6 Conclusion, 432 References, 432 Author Biographies, 434 17 A Multilevel Fusion Approach for Audiovisual Emotion Recognition 437 Girija Chetty, Michael Wagner, and Roland Goecke 17.1 Introduction, 437 17.2 Motivation and Background, 438 17.3 Facial Expression Quantification, 440 17.4 Experiment Design, 444 17.5 Experimental Results and Discussion, 450 17.6 Conclusion, 456 References, 456 Author Biographies, 459 18 From a Discrete Perspective of Emotions to Continuous, Dynamic, and Multimodal Affect Sensing 461 Isabelle Hupont, Sergio Ballano, Eva Cerezo, and Sandra Baldassarri 18.1 Introduction, 462 18.2 A Novel Method for Discrete Emotional Classification of Facial Images, 465 18.3 A 2D Emotional Space for Continuous and Dynamic Facial Affect Sensing, 469 18.4 Expansion to Multimodal Affect Sensing, 474 18.5 Building Tools That Care, 479 18.6 Concluding Remarks and Future Work, 486 Acknowledgments, 488 References, 488 Author Biographies, 491 19 Audiovisual Emotion Recognition Using Semi-Coupled Hidden Markov Model with State-Based Alignment Strategy 493 Chung-Hsien Wu, Jen-Chun Lin, and Wen-Li Wei 19.1 Introduction, 494 19.2 Feature Extraction, 495 19.3 Semi-Coupled Hidden Markov Model, 500 19.4 Experiments, 504 19.5 Conclusion, 508 References, 509 Author Biographies, 512 20 Emotion Recognition in Car Industry 515 Christos D. Katsis, George Rigas, Yorgos Goletsis, and Dimitrios I. Fotiadis 20.1 Introduction, 516 20.2 An Overview of Application for the Car Industry, 517 20.3 Modality-Based Categorization, 517 20.4 Emotion-Based Categorization, 520 20.5 Two Exemplar Cases, 523 20.6 Open Issues and Future Steps, 536 20.7 Conclusion, 537 References, 537 Author Biographies, 543 Index 545

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Book SynopsisLearn to identify the social engineer by non-verbal behavior Unmasking the Social Engineer: The Human Element of Security focuses on combining the science of understanding non-verbal communications with the knowledge of how social engineers, scam artists and con men use these skills to build feelings of trust and rapport in their targets.Table of ContentsForeword xv Acknowledgments and Preface xvii Introduction xxi I Building the Foundation 1 1 What Is Nonverbal Communication? 3 The Different Aspects of Nonverbal Communication 8 Kinesics 9 Proxemics 13 Touch 14 Eye Contact 15 Olfactics 16 Adornment 17 Facial Expressions 19 How to Use This Information 20 Summary 23 2 What Is Social Engineering? 25 Information Gathering 28 Pretexting 29 Elicitation 30 Rapport 30 Influence/Manipulation 32 Framing 33 Nonverbal Communications 34 The Three Basic Forms of Social Engineering 34 Become Phishers of Men 35 When The Phone Is More Dangerous Than Malware 39 I Am Not the Social Engineer You Are Looking For 43 Using Social Engineering Skills 45 The Good 46 The Bad 47 The Ugly 48 Summary 48 II Decoding the Language of the Body 51 3 Understanding the Language of the Hands 53 Communicating with Your Hands 55 Origin 57 Coding 57 Usage 58 High-Confidence Hand Displays 66 Low-Confidence and Stress Hand Displays 75 Getting a Handle on the Hands 78 Summary 79 4 The Torso, Legs, and Feet 81 Legs and Feet 83 Torso and Arms 89 Summary 97 5 The Science Behind the Face 99 Just the FACS 103 What Is a Truth Wizard? 105 Emotions versus Feelings 108 Fear 109 Surprise 113 Sadness 116 Contempt 121 Disgust 125 Anger 128 Happiness 132 Perfect Practice Makes Perfect 136 Summary 137 6 Understanding Nonverbal Displays of Comfort and Discomfort 139 Neck and Face Pacifying 143 What to Watch For 144 Mouth Covers 146 What to Watch For 147 Lips 147 What to Watch For 151 Eye Blocking 153 What to Watch For 154 Self-Comforting and Head Tilts 154 What to Watch For 157 Summary 158 III Deciphering the Science 159 7 The Human Emotional Processor 161 Introducing the Amygdala 164 How the Amygdala Processes Information 165 Hijacking the Amygdala 167 Human See, Human Do 169 Reading Other People’s Expressions 170 Your Own Emotional Content 171 Nonverbal Social Proof 171 Using Amygdala Hijacking as a Social Engineer 172 Summary 174 8 The Nonverbal Side of Elicitation 177 Artificial Time Constraints 181 Sympathy/Assistance Themes 182 Ego Suspension 184 Ask How, When, and Why Questions 186 Conversational Signals 187 Action Unit 1: Inner Brow Raiser 188 Action Unit 2: Outer Brow Raiser 188 Action Unit 4: Brow Lowerer 189 Conversational Signals of Emotions 190 Breaking Down Conversational Signals 191 Batons 191 Underliner r 192 Punctuation 192 Question Mark 193 Word Search 193 Nonverbal Conversational Signals 193 Conversational Signals as a Social Engineer 195 Summary 196 IV Putting It All Together 197 9 Nonverbal Communication and the Social Engineer Human Being 199 Applying This Information as a Professional Social Engineer 202 Using This Book to Defend 206 Becoming a Critical Thinker 207 Summary 210 Index 213

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Book SynopsisThe essential interaction design guide, fully revised and updated for the mobile age About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design, Fourth Edition is the latest update to the book that shaped and evolved the landscape of interaction design.Table of ContentsForeword xv Introduction xix Part I: Goal-Directed Design 1 Ch 1: A Design Process for Digital Products 3 The Consequences of Poor Product Behavior 4 Why Digital Products Fail 6 Planning and Designing Product Behavior 10 Recognizing User Goals 13 Implementation Models and Mental Models 16 An Overview of Goal-Directed Design 21 Ch 2: Understanding the Problem: Design Research 31 Qualitative versus Quantitative Data in Design Research 32 Goal-Directed Design Research 36 Interviewing and Observing Users 44 Other Types of Qualitative Research 56 Research is Critical to Good Design 59 Ch 3: Modeling Users: Personas and Goals 61 Why Model? 61 The Power of Personas 62 Why Personas Are Effective 66 Understanding Goals 72 Constructing Personas 81 Personas in Practice 93 Other Design Models 98 Ch 4: Setting the Vision: Scenarios and Design Requirements 101 Bridging the Research-Design Gap 101 Scenarios: Narrative as a Design Tool 102 Design Requirements: The “What” of Interaction 106 The Requirements Definition Process 109 Ch 5: Designing the Product: Framework and Refinement 119 Creating the Design Framework 119 Refining the Form and Behavior 137 Validating and Testing the Design 139 Ch 6: Creative Teamwork 145 Small, Focused Teams 146 Thinking Better, Together 146 Working across Design Disciplines 153 The Extended Team 155 Establishing a Creative Culture 161 Identifying Skill Levels in Designers 162 Collaboration is the Key 163 Part II: Making Well-Behaved Products 165 Ch 7: A Basis for Good Product Behavior 167 Design Values 167 Interaction Design Principles 173 Interaction Design Patterns 174 Ch 8: Digital Etiquette 179 Designing Considerate Products 180 Designing Smart Products 190 Designing Social Products 199 Ch 9: Platform and Posture 205 Product Platforms 205 Product Postures 206 Postures for the Desktop 207 Postures for the Web 218 Postures for Mobile Devices 225 Postures for Other Platforms 230 Give Your Apps Good Posture 235 Ch 10: Optimizing for Intermediates 237 Perpetual Intermediates 238 Inflecting the Interface 240 Designing for Three Levels of Experience 243 Ch 11: Orchestration and Flow 249 Flow and Transparency 249 Orchestration 250 Harmonious Interactions 251 Motion, Timing, and Transitions 266 The Ideal of Effortlessness 269 Ch 12: Reducing Work and Eliminating Excise 271 Goal-Directed Tasks versus Excise Tasks 272 Types of Excise 273 Excise is Contextual 285 Eliminating Excise 285 Other Common Excise Traps 297 Ch 13: Metaphors, Idioms, and Affordances 299 Interface Paradigms 300 Building Idioms 310 Manual Affordances 312 Direct Manipulation and Pliancy 315 Escape the Grip of Metaphor 322 Ch 14: Rethinking Data Entry, Storage, and Retrieval 325 Rethinking Data Entry 326 Rethinking Data Storage 332 Rethinking Data Retrieval 345 Ch 15: Preventing Errors and Informing Decisions 357 Using Rich Modeless Feedback 358 Undo, Redo, and Reversible Histories 363 What If: Compare and Preview 376 Ch 16: Designing for Different Needs 379 Learnability and Help 379 Customizability 395 Localization and Globalization 398 Accessibility 399 Ch 17: Integrating Visual Design 405 Visual Art and Visual Design 405 The Elements of Visual Interface Design 406 Visual Interface Design Principles 411 Visual Information Design Principles 425 Consistency and Standards 428 Part III: Interaction Details 433 Ch 18: Designing for the Desktop 435 Anatomy of a Desktop App 436 Windows on the Desktop 439 Menus 448 Toolbars, Palettes, and Sidebars 455 Pointing, Selection, and Direct Manipulation 465 Ch 19: Designing for Mobile and Other Devices 507 Anatomy of a Mobile App 508 Mobile Navigation, Content, and Control Idioms 518 Multi-Touch Gestures 550 Inter-App Integration 553 Other Devices 555 Ch 20: Designing for the Web 569 Page-Based interactions 571 The Mobile Web 585 The Future 587 Ch 21: Design Details: Controls and Dialogs 589 Controls 589 Dialogs 625 Eliminating Errors, Alerts, and Confirmations 641 The Devil is in the Details 653 Appendix A: Design Principles 655 Appendix B: Bibliography 661 Index 667

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Book Synopsis1 Introduction.- 2 Historical Background.- 3 Time & Time-Oriented Data.- 4 Crafting Visualizations of Time-Oriented Data.- 5 Involving the Human via Interaction.- 6 Computational Analysis Support.- 7 Guiding the Selection of Visualization Techniques.- 8 Conclusion.Table of ContentsForeword.- Preface.- About the Authors.- Acknowledgements.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Historical Background.- 3 Time & Time-Oriented Data.- 4 Crafting Visualizations of Time-Oriented Data.- 5 Involving the Human via Interaction.- 6 Computational Analysis Support.- 7 Guiding the Selection of Visualization Techniques.- 8 Conclusion. Appendix A: Survey of Visualization Techniques.- Appendix B: Examples of Data Quality Issues.- References.- Index

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