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Book SynopsisThe primary intention of composing this book is to offer a basis for automating agricultural fields using various sensors and transmitting the data to the cloud through the internet of things. This book supplies the fundamental knowledge required for programming and connecting devices to an IoT modem, as well as the essential steps for comprehending IoT and its application in the agricultural field. It serves as a useful resource for postgraduate and undergraduate engineering students, particularly those studying Electronics, Electrical, Mechatronics, Robotics, Mechanical, and Computer Science. The distinctive feature of this book is that it provides programming-based real-time project prototypes, which are based on the practical experiences of the authors while working on projects with students and industries.

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Book SynopsisThe deep integration of technology in our modern society forces us to rethink the relationship humans have to their surroundings. The rise of complex sociotechnical systems denotes how humans and technology have entered a symbiotic relationship where the co-ordinated and fluent interaction between us and technology is a crucial condition for modern societies to function. The disharmony in the relationship between humans and technology has immediate and serious consequences. Accidents and failed operations in transport, incomprehensible user interfaces, and failure to learn from experience are all examples from everyday life suggesting that the understanding of human-technology relationships is not sufficient. This book investigates how humans relate to technology in our modern society, and how our basic assumption of human thought and behaviour guide our efforts to improve and control technology. The fact is that the skilled use of technology in expert systems and everyday life challenges the traditional conception of humans and technology as two separate elements in the analysis of work. This book shows how this dualism is evident and problematic in a wide range of areas, such as investigation of human error in accidents, case studies of innovative interface solutions, simulator training strategies, analysis of work practices in complex systems, and traffic safety research. This book is written for researchers, students and professionals, to supplement the ongoing effort to understand how technology can be integrated with more confidence in modern society.

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Book SynopsisThe book is a short philosophical guide to our data and algo new world. It’s a cultural journey into our living quantifiable society through the unusual viewpoint of digital philosophy. In 5 easy chapters, the book unveils: the hidden nature of software data code, the artificial dawn of a new data sensorium, the invisible power of data algorithm, the datum as the new human experience, the emergence of accidental megastructures called data platforms. Beyond engineers, programmers and coders tech narratives of data revolution, philosophers have their own provocative thinking on current and future technology. This book popularizes and intertwines speculative visions from untold and surprising approaches to tech businesses such as the shift from feedback to feedforward, the new living sensorial environment, the end of experience as we know it, the digital space as transduced space, the programmable everything from money, to law to society.

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Book Synopsis“What might the futures of practice be like?” is far from a straightforward question. Emphasising "the" before the word future, implies one future. But futures thinkers have identified a range of futures that people think about. In this book we reflect on possible, probable, and preferable futures in relation to practice and work. Readers are invited to consider how their own engagement in shaping possible futures will support ways of working that they deem preferable, even those they can hardly imagine. Challenging Future Practice Possibilities also examines influences that are maintaining the status quo and others that are pushing interest-driven change. Authors consider the major challenges that practice and practitioners face today such as wicked problems, fears for the future and complex demands and opportunities posed by the digital revolution. A number of examples of future-oriented work directions such as protean careers and artificial intelligence enhancing or even replacing human workforces, are considered along with concerns like the vulnerability of many work situations and workers. In some cases workers and employers alike are unprepared for these challenges, while others see adapting to these situations as yet another pathway of practice futures evolution.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Part 1: Grappling with Practice Futures 1 Exploring Practice in Context  Joy Higgs 2 Thinking the Unthinkable: Challenges of Imagining and Engaging with Unimaginable Practice Futures  Steven Cork and Debbie Horsfall 3 Plausible Practice Futures  Steven Cork and Kristin Alford 4 The Impact of Practice on Wicked Problems and Unpredictable Futures  Peter Goodyear and Lina Markauskaite 5 The Changing Face of Work: Considering Business Models and the Employment Market  Paul Whybrow and Asheley Jones Part 2: Practice and the Common Good 6 Re-claiming Social Purpose and Adding Values to the World around Us  Debbie Horsfall and Joy Higgs 7 Our Place in Society and the Environment: Opportunities and Responsibilities for Professional Practice Futures  Steven Cork 8 Practice Futures for Indigenous Agency: Our Gaps, Our Leaps  Sandy O’Sullivan 9 Changing Work Realities: Creating Socially and Environmentally Responsible Workplaces  Rosemary Leonard and Margot Cairnes 10 Towards Future Practice in Socio-political Contexts  Megan Conway and Joy Higgs Part 3: Pursuing Practice Futures 11 The Place of Agency and Related Capacities in Future Practices  Franziska Trede and Joy Higgs 12 Employability and Career Development Learning through Social Media: Exploring the Potential of LinkedIn  Ruth Bridgstock 13 Re-imagining Practice Structures and Pathways: Starting to Realise Tomorrow’s Practices Today  Joy Higgs and Daniel Radovich 14 Freelancing, Entrepreneurship and Inherent Career Risk: An Exploration in the Creative Industries  Noel Maloney 15 Young People’s Hopes and Fears for the Future  Steven Cork and Jennifer Malbon 16 Facing Recruitment Challenges: Entering Workplace Practices  James Cloutman and Graham Jenkins 17 PhDs and Future Practice  Bernadine Van Gramberg 18 Educational Innovations: Preparing for Future Work  Asheley Jones 19 Otherness in Practice (in the Health Professions)  Janice Orrell and Julie Ash 20 Workplace Innovations and Practice Futures  Thomas Carey, Farhad Dastur and Iryna Karaush Part 4: Reflections 21 Reflections about Work: What Might Be My Future Practice Roles?  Joy Higgs Notes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisOffline Matters is a handbook for anybody experiencing digital overload in their lives and creative work."For any creative who has had to cater to corporate dimwits in order support their art, here's a terrific guide to bringing your best work into the commercial sphere without selling out or compromising your craft. This is a book about how to break free from the data-driven expectations of your client's spreadsheet, and retrieve the true novelty that makes you valuable in the first place." - Douglas Rushkoff, author of Team Human"Offline Matters is a much needed take-down of the whole 'cult of creativity' from the inside. This rattle gun attack on the perniciousness of the creative digital work will leave you aghast and amused in equal measure." - Oli Mould, author of Against CreativityWhen did creative work become so boring?How did 'digital-first' come to dominate everything?...and why is nobody talking about it?Part insider exposé, part worker-manual, this book is for any creative seeking help on: Navigating the possibility of offline alternatives Countering overwork culture, exploitation, and dulled-down ideas Recovering what you loved about your creative calling ...away from the confines of our screens. We are dreaming of offline. Not as a romanticised past, a punishment, a quick detox, or a WiFi-free café. Offline is not a lifestyle. It's a space of opportunity.By the end of Offline Matters, you'll have a new perspective on the dry digitality that defines creative work today - and a set of strategies for going beyond it.Trade Review"Offline Matters is a much needed take-down of the whole 'cult of creativity' from the inside. This rattle gun attack on the perniciousness of the creative digital work will leave you aghast and amused in equal measure." - Oli Mould, author of Against Creativity"For any creative who has had to cater to corporate dimwits in order support their art, here's a terrific guide to bringing your best work into the commercial sphere without selling out or compromising your craft. This is a book about how to break free from the data-driven expectations of your client's spreadsheet, and retrieve the true novelty that makes you valuable in the first place." - Douglas Rushkoff, author of Team Human"This book is extremely timely. The pandemic has obliged everybody to stay online almost all the time. Offline Matters reminds us that life is (also) elsewhere. The neologism 'offline', which did not exist twenty years ago, has philosophical relevance. This book is hoping we can discover it." - Franco 'Bifo' Berardi, philosopher, theorist and activist"Today we are all called upon to be the content providers of our own lives. This can be exhausting and estranging. Fortunately Jess Henderson has arrived to help us get offline, not into the pasts but into the presence of our lives. With compassion and humour Henderson brings us back to ourselves and it turns out we are not predestined to be profiled and branded. Offline Matters is the mutual help book we need right now!" - Stefano Harney, co-author of The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study"Jess has written a kind of outsider/artist/creative/inventor SURVIVAL MANUAL for our over-amped, information-overloaded, hypercommunicative age. Anyone seeking encouragement, inspiration, moral support, and IDEAS would do well to study these pages, preferably in a solitary room with no music playing and no laptop showing 'news' (or a cellphone constantly pinging). Electronics in another room, please!" - V. Vale, founder of RE/Search and Search & Destroy"Offline Matters couldn't come at a more important and critical juncture in our human existence...The insights within this book highlight the current creative plight we've gotten ourselves into and the cracks within many cultural and societal pillars.This book is a great step in helping us reclaim and reconsider our roles within the current structures we've all been players within. Many of us can read along nodding in agreement and the examples surely represent thoughts we've embraced at some point. But this book isn't about reprimanding us so much as help us understand how we can move forward. We've become so subservient to other factors out in the world and this is a stern reminder to take back control of something that can provide an immense amount of personal and community value." - Eugene Kan, co-founder of MAEKAN and Hypebeast"Consider this book a rehabilitation program for a creative thinking populace unknowingly addicted to vain online activity. Through these influential pages, Henderson bestows upon their readers the tools necessary to free one's mind from the constraints of the virtual realm so they may focus instead on something much more important...reality." - James T. Padlow, THE PEN NAME"I have followed Jess' writing since she created Outsider; an anarchic newsletter/witty commentary against the establishment, and its pervasive contentment with the same old marketing bullshit. I waited in anticipation, sometimes for months, to receive news from the trenches...Just like the white space between the lines in a book, it was like reading every unspoken truth, every unheard sigh, every roll of the eyes in our industry. Someone had to say it and thank god it was Jess. We need this book." - Alvaro Sotomayor, Creative Director at WEIDEN+KENNEDY

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Book SynopsisThe author draws a correlation between the amazing potential of the internet and the moral message of the spinning wheel. The book presents Gandhi's life and mission in an altogether new and integral light.

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Book SynopsisNational security is paramount for an all inclusive development. Along with a holistic approach in place, there is an urgent need to first recognise the challenges to national security of the country. National Security Challenges: Young Scholars’ Perspective – a tribute to Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw from the youth of the country – primarily deals with India`s national security challenges from a hardcore, predominantly traditional security point of view.The main aim of the book is to develop strategic thinking amongst the youth of this country. To provide a suitable platform to the university students, CLAWS has initiated an unprecedented pan-India essay competition – Field Marshal Manekshaw Essay Competition (FMMEC). The book is the outcome of an overwhelming response to the competition over past two years, and 12 select essays have been compiled, edited, and published.Dealing with wide range of subjects from conceptual understandings, threats and challenges emanating from technological advancements, to learning from national, regional and global experiences; the book provides a fresh approach to the subject. It also gives a sneak peek into what the youth of India feels about national security in the form of policy recommendations.To boost the morale of the young authors and university students, the book carries messages from Hon’ble Raksha Mantri, Hon’ble National Security Advisor and Chief of the Army Staff.

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Book SynopsisDieses Buch soll ein Bericht über den Prozess Einstein sein. Es enthält das Material über die Diskussion um die Relativitätstheorie in der UdSSR seit 1950. Von 1951 bis 1955 wurde Einstein durch die offizielle Parteiphilosophie der UdSSR in den Anklagezustand versetzt. Der Prozess gipfelte in der Aufforderung, die Relativitätstheorie zu verwerfen und durch eine materialistische 'Theorie schneller Bewegungen' zu ersetzen. Selbst der Name 'Relativitätstheorie' sollte aus den physikalischen Lehrbüchern verschwinden. Die Anklage wurde vertreten von der ideologischen Führungsschicht der gewaltigsten irdischen Macht unseres Zeitalters. Der Angeklagte, in der Reife seines Lebens vor die vehementesten Angriffe gestellt, kam nur durch sein Werk zu Wort. Dies genügte jedoch, dass sich unter den sowjetischen Physikern und Philosophen noch zur Zeit Stalins mannhafte Stimmen der Verteidigung fanden. 1955 wurde der Prozess mit der offiziellen Anerkennung der Relativitäts­ theorie durch die Parteiphilosophie abgeschlossen. Es war ein Sieg der Wahrheit über die Gewalt. Die Folgen mussten das Ansehen der kommunistischen Ideologie erschüttern. Es hatte sich herausgestellt, dass zwischen der angeblich einzig wissenschaftlichen Philosophie und der exaktesten Naturwissen­ schaft, der Physik, ein Abgrund klafft, den zu überbrücken die Sowjet­ philosophie bis heute bemüht ist. Andererseits begannen die sowjetischen Physiker, wachgerufen durch die Appelle der Philosophen, ihr eigenes Weltbild mit adäquaten Methoden zu durchdenken. Diese ganze Ent­ wicklung ist von hohem Wert für eine Diagnose der geistigen Struktur der Sowjetgesellschaft.Table of ContentsErster Abschnitt: Die Grundlagen.- I: Thesen Des Diamat.- 1. Allgemeine Haltung.- 2. Abgrenzung gegen den vormarxistischen Materialismus.- 3. Monismus.- 4. Die Definition der Materie.- 5. Die Attribute der Materie.- 6. Die Bewegung.- 7. Die Determiniertheit des Geschehens.- 8. Erkenntnistheoretische Thesen.- II: Definitionen und Satze Der Relativitats-Theorie.- 1. Die spezielle Relativitätstheorie.- 2. Die allgemeine Relativitätstheorie.- III: Grundriss Der Auseinandersetzung.- 1. Vorgebliche Einheit von Diamat und Wissenschaft.- 2. Die ideologische Missdeutung.- 3. Die Situation der sowjetischen Philosophic der Physik.- 4. Phasen der Auseinandersetzung.- 5. Reaktionsformen und-gruppen.- IV: Relativitatstheorie und Erkenntnis.- 1. Einleitende Bemerkungen.- A. Der Zusammenhang zwischen Physik und Philosophic.- B. Die Philosophic Einsteins in sowjetischer Sicht.- 2. Die Anklage.- A. Zum Motiv einer physikalischen Theorie.- B. Zum Ursprung einer physikalischen Theorie.- a. Die Erstgegebenheit des physikalischen Erkennens.- b. Physikalische Begriffe und Theorien.- c. Die Logik.- d. Die Intuition.- e. Mathematische Begriffe und Sätze.- C. Zum Verfahren der Relativitätstheorie.- a. Empirische Falsifikation der Begriffe und Aussagen.- b. Die Messung als Voraussetzung von Definitionen.- c. Die Deduktion aus Prinzipien.- d. Die mathematische Formalisierung.- D. Zum Erkenntniswert.- a. Grundsätzliches.- b. Wahrnehmungen.- c. Begriffe.- d. Theorien.- E. Das Erkenntniskriterium.- a. Empirische Verifikation.- b. Kovarianz.- c. Denkökonomie.- d. Ausschaltung sinnleerer Aussagen und Begriffe.- F. Die Leugnung der Theorie.- 3. Die Verteidigung.- A. Allgemeine Haltung.- B. Einzelprobleme.- 4. Diskussion der sowjetischen Thesen.- A. Die Erkenntnisprinzipien Einsteins.- B. Wertung der Haltung Einsteins.- C. Das Verfahren der Relativitatstheorie und die Erkenntnistheorie des Diamat.- Zweiter Abschnitt: Die Spezielle Relativitätstheorie.- I: Die Physikalischen Prinzipien Der Speziellen Relativitätstheorie.- 1. Problemstellung.- 2. Die Grundprinzipien.- 3. Das Bezugssystem.- A. Berechtigung.- B. Definition.- 4. Die Absolutheit der Bezugssysteme.- 5. Die Absolutheit der Bewegung.- 6. Die Absolutheit von Raum und Zeit.- 7. Diskussion der sowjetischen Thesen.- A. Das Phänomen.- B. Physikalische Irrtümer.- C. Inertialzustand.- D. Kinematik oder Dynamik?.- E. Das Relativitütsproblem.- F. Bezugssystem.- G. Raum und Zeit.- II: Die Relativitüt Der ‘Eigenschaften’.- 1. Problemstellung.- 2. Grundsützliche sowjetische Thesen.- 3. Die Leugnung der Effekte.- 4. Die Einwertigkeit der ‘Eigenschaften’.- 5. Die Diskussion in Kiev.- 6. Die Erhellung.- 7. Die Anerkennung der Relativitütstheorie.- 8. Diskussion der sowjetischen Thesen.- A. Das Phünomen.- B. Die philosophische Problematik.- III: Masse und Energie.- 1. Zum Begriff der Materie im Diamat.- 2. Der physikalische Sachverhalt.- A. Zerstrahlung und Paarerzeugung.- B. Massendefekt.- 3. Die Anklage.- 4. Die Diskussionsgruppen.- 5. Die Diskussion am Institut für Philosophie in Moskau.- 6. Philosophische Einbauversuche.- 7. Die Deutung der Physiker.- 8. Diskussion der sowjetischen Thesen.- A. Das Phünomen.- B. Einzelprobleme.- Literaturverweisungen.- Quellen.- Personenverzeichnis.- Sachverzeichis.

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Book SynopsisHow do you describe cyberspace comprehensively?This book examines the relationship between cyberspace and sovereignty as understood by jurists and economists. The author transforms and abstracts cyberspace from the perspective of science and technology into the subject, object, platform, and activity in the field of philosophy. From the three dimensions of 'ontology' (cognition of cyberspace and information), 'epistemology' (sovereignty evolution), and 'methodology' (theoretical refinement), he uses international law, philosophy of science and technology, political philosophy, cyber security, and information entropy to conduct cross-disciplinary research on cyberspace and sovereignty to find a scientific and accurate methodology. Cyberspace sovereignty is the extension of modern state sovereignty. Only by firmly establishing the rule of law of cyberspace sovereignty can we reduce cyber conflicts and cybercrimes, oppose cyber hegemony, and prevent cyber war. The purpose of investigating cyberspace and sovereignty is to plan good laws and good governance. This book argues that cyberspace has sovereignty, sovereignty governs cyberspace, and cyberspace governance depends on comprehensive planning. This is a new theory of political philosophy and sovereignty law.Table of ContentsNoumenon: Thing-in-Itself: Ontology of Cyberspace; Cyberspace Evolution; Cyberspace Security; Cyberspace Sovereignty; Epistemology: The Consideration of Cyberspace Order; The History of Cyberspace Legislation; The Rule of Law in Cyberspace Sovereignty; Methodology: Cyberspace and Order Coordination; Cyberspace and Overall Planning Entropy; The Overall Planning of Cyberspace Justice;

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Book SynopsisThis book is about the nature of information. It touches on many core issues of philosophy of the mind, ontology, and epistemology, and draws in several domain-specific concepts from physics, mathematics, thermodynamics, computer science, and biology. The terms used in this book, such as the mind, a conscious agent, meaning, and knowledge are used with very precise meanings because they can be easily misinterpreted. A proper understanding of these terms can be gained from the referenced literature. But more specifically, this book is about the concept of information as physical phenomenon.The book is a unique exposition of the concept of information as physical phenomenon. It provides the detailed analysis and synthesis of the current conceptualizations of information demonstrating the lack of common definition and their incompleteness. The detailed argument is provided why information may be defined as a physical phenomenon and why this type of information may be seen as fundamental to our understanding of this concept.

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Book SynopsisArtificial intelligence and related technologies are changing both the law and the legal profession. In particular, technological advances in fields ranging from machine learning to more advanced robots, including sensors, virtual realities, algorithms, bots, drones, self-driving cars, and more sophisticated “human-like” robots are creating new and previously unimagined challenges for regulators. These advances also give rise to new opportunities for legal professionals to make efficiency gains in the delivery of legal services. With the exponential growth of such technologies, radical disruption seems likely to accelerate in the near future.This collection brings together a series of contributions by leading scholars in the newly emerging field of artificial intelligence, robotics, and the law. The aim of the book is to enrich legal debates on the social meaning and impact of this type of technology. The distinctive feature of the contributions presented in this edition is that they address the impact of these technological developments in a number of different fields of law and from the perspective of diverse jurisdictions. Moreover, the authors utilize insights from multiple related disciplines, in particular social theory and philosophy, in order to better understand and address the legal challenges created by AI. Therefore, the book will contribute to interdisciplinary debates on disruptive new AI technologies and the law.Trade Review“Scholars interested in legal-philosophical aspects of emerging technologies or researching privacy regulations likely would find relevant material in this book. This book is recommended for academic collections, especially those with a European law and/or robotics focus.” (Sara Bensley, Law Library Journal, Vol. 112 (1), 2020)Table of Contents

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the landscape of sustained investment in research and innovation in Africa, which are critical for development. This cutting-edge analysis is based on empirical evidence and the author’s experience in managing health and related innovations on the continent and globally. It concludes, for the first time, that African innovation is largely driven by the principles of Social, rather than Technological innovation. The significance of this finding and the need to optimize, scale and sustain this dominant innovation is addressed in various chapters that analyze the status, challenges and opportunities. Particularly, the financing, collaboration and coordination patterns for these activities on the continent show a fragmented ecosystem that is largely dependent on external donors and aid. The importance of supportive policies, leadership and venture mechanisms that incentivizes public and private entities to innovate is further exemplified by the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic. The book proposes mechanism to address identified challenges. Table of Contents1. Introduction: Demographics and Frameworks for African-Led Research, Innovation and Development 2. Landscape for Research and Innovation in Africa.3. Research, Invention and Innovation: Social and Technological—What Do They Mean?4. ANDI and African Health Innovation5. Human, Institutional and Financial Resources, and Partnerships6. African Traditional Knowledge, Other Technologies and Emerging Areas7. Technology Readiness Levels, the Valley of Death and Scaling Up Innovations8. Manufacturing in Africa 9. Adopting and Adapting Innovations: Frugal, Leapfrogging and Open Innovation Approaches10. Brain Drain, the African Diaspora and Innovation in Africa11. COVID-19 Pandemic, Leadership and Ownership of Innovation in Africa12. Integrating Innovation and Entrepreneurship into the African Educational System: Concept of IDEA University

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Book SynopsisThis book presents a study of the COVID-19 pandemic using computational social scientific analysis that draws from, and employs, statistics and simulations. Combining approaches in crisis management, risk assessment and mathematical modelling, the work also draws from the philosophy of sacrifice and futurology. It makes an original contribution to the important issue of the stability of society by highlighting two significant factors: the COVID-19 crisis as a catalyst for change and the rise of AI and Big Data in managing society. It also emphasizes the nature and importance of sacrifices and the role of politics in the distribution of sacrifices. The book considers the treatment of AI and Big Data and their use to both “good” and “bad” ends, exposing the inevitability of these tools being used. Relevant to both policymakers and social scientists interested in the influence of AI and Big Data on the structure of society, the book re-evaluates the ways we think of lifestyles, economic systems and the balance of power in tandem with digital transformation.Table of ContentsChapter 1. A Worldview Seen From Sacrifices.- Chapter 2. Crises, Risks and Sacrifices.- Chapter 3. A Crisis of COVID-19 and its Sacrifices.- Chapter 4. Formalizing Models on COVID-19 Pandemic.- Chapter 5. For Balancing Health Care and Economics.- Chapter 6. Five Virtues to be Digitized Norms.- Chapter 7. Synchronizing Everything to the Digitized World.- Chapter 8. A Living Way in the Digitized World.- Chapter 9. A New World in Motion.- Chapter 10. Digitized Shifts of Regime and Hegemony.- Chapter 11. On Balance of Power.- Chapter 12. For Strategies in The Age of After Corona.- Chapter 13. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisSince the last decades of the twentieth century, the circumstances surrounding map use and map making have drastically changed owing to advances in information and communication technologies (ICTs). In particular, the spread of web maps and mobile devices have altered the way people interact with maps. This book features the latest works on theoretical and practical issues of these changes by terming them “ubiquitous mapping”. In particular, the book pays attention to not only the technological basis but also multidisciplinary human–social aspects. The book covers the topics of the evaluation of ICT-based technologies for context-aware mapping, the theory and application of crowd-sourced geospatial information and collaborative mapping, and both the positive and negative effects of ubiquitous mapping on human society.Table of Contents1 On the Establishment of Theoretical Cartography and Meta-cartography and the Subsequent Development of Ubiquitous Mapping Part 1 Technological issues and applications 2 Ubiquitous Digital Storytelling with Local and Dynamic Georeferencing of Analog Maps 3 Developing and Evaluating Virtual Heiankyō AR 4 Role of Maps and Public Street Signs in Wayfinding Behavior by Foreign Visitors Part 2 Human aspects 5 Use of Smartphones as Navigation Aids and Acquisition of Spatial Knowledge 6 Intergenerational Differences in the Use of Maps: Results from an online survey 7 Development Process of OpenStreetMap Data in Japan Part 3 Social and practical issues 8 Stigmatization on the Web: Ethical consideration of geospatial stigmatiza-tion via online mapping 9 How Have Tactile Maps for the Visually Impaired Been Situated in Japan?: From the analysis of newspaper articles 10 Mapping Isolation: Distribution of Isolated Foreign Women Living in Rural Japan

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