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COGNITIVE BEHAVIOR AND HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION BASED ON MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS The objective of this book is to provide the most relevant information on Human-Computer Interaction to academics, researchers, and students and for those from industry who wish to know more about the real-time application of user interface design. Human-computer interaction (HCI) is the academic discipline, which most of us think of as UI design, that focuses on how human beings and computers interact at ever-increasing levels of both complexity and simplicity. Because of the importance of the subject, this book aims to provide more relevant information that will be useful to students, academics, and researchers in the industry who wish to know more about its real-time application. In addition to providing content on theory, cognition, design, evaluation, and user diversity, this book also explains the underlying causes of the cognitive, social and organizational problems typically devoted to descriptions of rehabilitation methods for specific cognitive processes. Also described are the new modeling algorithms accessible to cognitive scientists from a variety of different areas. This book is inherently interdisciplinary and contains original research in computing, engineering, artificial intelligence, psychology, linguistics, and social and system organization as applied to the design, implementation, application, analysis, and evaluation of interactive systems. Since machine learning research has already been carried out for a decade in various applications, the new learning approach is mainly used in machine learning-based cognitive applications. Since this will direct the future research of scientists and researchers working in neuroscience, neuroimaging, machine learning-based brain mapping, and modeling, etc., this book highlights the framework of a novel robust method for advanced cross-industry HCI technologies. These implementation strategies and future research directions will meet the design and application requirements of several modern and real-time applications for a long time to come. Audience: A wide range of researchers, industry practitioners, and students will be interested in this book including those in artificial intelligence, machine learning, cognition, computer programming and engineering, as well as social sciences such as psychology and linguistics.

• Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Measures of Interpretability Explicable Behavior Generation Legible Behavior Explanation as Model Reconciliation Acquiring Mental Models for Explanations Balancing Communication and Behavior Explaining in the Presence of Vocabulary Mismatch Obfuscatory Behavior and Deceptive Communication Applications Conclusion Bibliography Authors' Biographies Index.
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From its inception, artificial intelligence (AI) has had a rather ambivalent relationship with humans-swinging between their augmentation and replacement. Now, as AI technologies enter our everyday lives at an ever-increasing pace, there is a greater need for AI systems to work synergistically with humans. One critical requirement for such synergistic human-AI interaction is that the AI systems' behavior be explainable to the humans in the loop. To do this effectively, AI agents need to go beyond planning with their own models of the world, and take into account the mental model of the human in the loop. At a minimum, AI agents need approximations of the human's task and goal models, as well as the human's model of the AI agent's task and goal models. The former will guide the agent to anticipate and manage the needs, desires and attention of the humans in the loop, and the latter allow it to act in ways that are interpretable to humans (by conforming to their mental models of it), and be ready to provide customized explanations when needed.The authors draw from several years of research in their lab to discuss how an AI agent can use these mental models to either conform to human expectations or change those expectations through explanatory communication. While the focus of the book is on cooperative scenarios, it also covers how the same mental models can be used for obfuscation and deception. The book also describes several real-world application systems for collaborative decision-making that are based on the framework and techniques developed here. Although primarily driven by the authors' own research in these areas, every chapter will provide ample connections to relevant research from the wider literature. The technical topics covered in the book are self-contained and are accessible to readers with a basic background in AI.
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• Introduction.- Face Movement.- Eye Movement.- Hand Movements Using Keyboard and Mouse.- Leg and Foot Movement.- Whole-body Movement.- Movement in Virtual Reality.- Movement in the Environment.- Perception of Movement.- Movement, Cognition and Learning.- Future Directions.
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This book discusses human-computer interaction (HCI) which is a multidisciplinary field of study which aims at developing and implementing tools and techniques to attain an effective and efficient interaction between the humans (the users) and computers. In recent years, there is an increase of interest of HCI researchers and practitioners in the inclusion of gaze gestures which can greatly enhance the communication between the human user and the computer, as well as other more "physical" communication involving all what can be learned from movements of the human body, from face, hand, leg, foot, etc., to the whole body movement, even extending to the involvement of groups of agents, even society. These explicitly human-centric issues in the development, design, analysis, and implementation of the HCI systems are discussed in the book. A comprehensive state of the art is given complemented with original own proposals. As opposed to more traditional formal and IT based analyses, the discussion is here more focused on relevant research results from psychology and psychophysiology, and other soft, cognitive, etc., sciences. Remarks on the relevance of affective computing are also mentioned.
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• Cognitive Behavior: Different Human-Computer Interaction Types / S Venkata Achyuth Rao, Sandeep Kumar, GVRK Acharyulu
• Classification of HCI and Issues and Challenges in Smart Home HCI Implementation / Pramod Vishwakarma, Vijay Kumar Soni, Gaurav Srivastav, Abhishek Jain
• Teaching-Learning Process and Brain-Computer Interaction Using ICT Tools / Rohit Raja, Neelam Sahu, Sumati Pathak
• Denoising of Digital Images Using Wavelet-Based Thresholding Techniques: A Comparison / Devanand Bhonsle
• Smart Virtual Reality-Based Gaze-Perceptive Common Communication System for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder / Karunanithi Praveen Kumar, Perumal Sivanesan
• Construction and Reconstruction of 3D Facial and Wireframe Model Using Syntactic Pattern Recognition / Shilpa Rani, Deepika Ghai, Sandeep Kumar
• Attack Detection Using Deep Learning-Based Multimodal Biometric Authentication System / Nishant Kaushal, Sukhwinder Singh, Jagdish Kumar
• Feature Optimized Machine Learning Framework for Unbalanced Bioassays / Dinesh Kumar, Anuj Kumar Sharma, Rohit Bajaj, Lokesh Pawar
• Predictive Model and Theory of Interaction / Raj Kumar Patra, Srinivas Konda, M Varaprasad Rao, Kavitarani Balmuri, G Madhukar
• Advancement in Augmented and Virtual Reality / Omprakash Dewangan, Latika Pinjarkar, Padma Bonde, Jaspal Bagga
• Computer Vision and Image Processing for Precision Agriculture / Narendra Khatri, Gopal U Shinde
• A Novel Approach for Low-Quality Fingerprint Image Enhancement Using Spatial and Frequency Domain Filtering Techniques / Mehak Sood, Akshay Girdhar
• Elevate Primary Tumor Detection Using Machine Learning / Lokesh Pawar, Pranshul Agrawal, Gurjot Kaur, Rohit Bajaj
• Comparative Sentiment Analysis Through Traditional and Machine Learning-Based Approach / Sandeep Singh, Harjot Kaur
• Application of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision to Identify Edible Bird's Nest / Weng Kin Lai, Mei Yuan Koay, Selina Xin Ci Loh, Xiu Kai Lim, Kam Meng Goh
• Enhancement of Satellite and Underwater Image Utilizing Luminance Model by Color Correction Method / Sandeep Kumar, E G Rajan, Shilpa Rani.

COGNITIVE BEHAVIOR AND HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION BASED ON MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS The objective of this book is to provide the most relevant information on Human-Computer Interaction to academics, researchers, and students and for those from industry who wish to know more about the real-time application of user interface design. Human-computer interaction (HCI) is the academic discipline, which most of us think of as UI design, that focuses on how human beings and computers interact at ever-increasing levels of both complexity and simplicity. Because of the importance of the subject, this book aims to provide more relevant information that will be useful to students, academics, and researchers in the industry who wish to know more about its real-time application. In addition to providing content on theory, cognition, design, evaluation, and user diversity, this book also explains the underlying causes of the cognitive, social and organizational problems typically devoted to descriptions of rehabilitation methods for specific cognitive processes. Also described are the new modeling algorithms accessible to cognitive scientists from a variety of different areas. This book is inherently interdisciplinary and contains original research in computing, engineering, artificial intelligence, psychology, linguistics, and social and system organization as applied to the design, implementation, application, analysis, and evaluation of interactive systems. Since machine learning research has already been carried out for a decade in various applications, the new learning approach is mainly used in machine learning-based cognitive applications. Since this will direct the future research of scientists and researchers working in neuroscience, neuroimaging, machine learning-based brain mapping, and modeling, etc., this book highlights the framework of a novel robust method for advanced cross-industry HCI technologies. These implementation strategies and future research directions will meet the design and application requirements of several modern and real-time applications for a long time to come. Audience: A wide range of researchers, industry practitioners, and students will be interested in this book including those in artificial intelligence, machine learning, cognition, computer programming and engineering, as well as social sciences such as psychology and linguistics.

• Preface.- What is Character Computing?.- An Experimental-Psychological Approach for the Development of Character Computing.- A Psychological-driven, User-centered Approach to Character Modeling.- Applications of Character Computing - From Psychology to Computer Science.- Character Computing and HCI.- Affective Computing Needs Personalization - and a Character? Character-IoT (CIoT): Towards Human-Centered Ubiquitous Computing.- Identifying Personality Dimensions for Characters of Digital Agents.- The Good, the Bad, and the Rational: Aspects of Character in Logical Agents.
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The book gives an introduction into the theory and practice of the transdisciplinary field of Character Computing, introduced by Alia El Bolock. The latest scientific findings indicate that "One size DOES NOT fit all" in terms of how to design interactive systems and predict behavior to tailor the interaction experience. Emotions are one of the essential factors that influence people's daily experiences; they influence decision making and how different emotions are interpreted by different individuals. For example, some people may perform better under stress and others may break. Building upon Rosalind Picard's vision, if we want computers to be genuinely intelligent and to interact naturally with us, we must give computers the ability to recognize, understand, even to have and express emotions and how different characters perceive and react to these emotions, hence having richer and truly tailored interaction experiences. Psychological processes or personality traits are embedded in the existing fields of Affective and Personality Computing. However, this book is the first that systematically addresses this including the whole human character; namely our stable personality traits, our variable affective, cognitive and motivational states as well as our morals, beliefs and socio-cultural embedding. The book gives an introduction into the theory and practice of the transdisciplinary field of Character Computing. The emerging field leverages Computer Science and Psychology to extend technology to include the whole character of humans and thus paves the way for researchers to truly place humans at the center of any technological development. Character Computing is presented from three main perspectives: Profiling and sensing the character Leveraging characters to build ubiquitous character-aware systems Investigating how to extend Artificial Intelligence to create artificial characters.
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• Preface.- Imagination.- The Farthings of Imagination.- Imagination and Design.- Aesthetics and Imagination.- Imaginary Use.- The Technological Imagination.
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Imagination is highly valued and sought-after, yet elusive and ill-defined. Definitions range from narrowly cognitive accounts to those which endow imagination with world-making powers. Imagination underpins our ability to speculate about the future and to re-experience the past. The everyday functioning of society relies on being able to imagine the perspectives of others; and our sense of who we are depends on the stories our imaginations create. Our soaring imaginations have taken us to the moon and allowed Einstein to race a light beam. Unsurprisingly, imagination underlies every aspect of human-computer interaction, from the earliest conceptual sketches, through the realistic possibilities portrayed variously in well-known tools as scenarios and storyboards, through to the wilder shores of design fictions. Yet, curiously, imagination is very rarely addressed directly in the design and HCI literature (and is wholly missing from virtual reality). This book addresses this gap in our accounts of how we imagine, conceptualise, design and use digital technologies. Drawing on many years of practical and academic experience in human computer-interaction, together with a wide range of material from psychology, design, cognitive science and HCI, seasoned with a little philosophy and anthropology, Imagination + Technology first considers imagination itself and the principal farthings of a new account. Later chapters discuss the role of imagination in the design, aesthetics, use and experience of digital technologies before the concluding chapter focusses on the provocative nature of imagination. The book will be stimulating reading for anyone working in the field of interactive technology and related areas, whether academics, students or practitioners. .
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Targeted advertisements, tailored information feeds, and recommended content are now common and somewhat inescapable components of our everyday lives. With the help of searches, browsing history, purchases, likes, and other digital interactions, technological experiences are now routinely "personalized." Companies with access to this information often downplay the fact that users' personal data serves as a key form of monetization, and their privacy policies tend to use the terms "personalization" and "customization" to legitimize the practice of tracking and algorithmically anticipating users' daily movements. In Making it Personal, Tanya Kant sheds light on the dilemmas of algorithmic personalization, exploring such key contemporary questions as: What do users really know about the algorithms that guide their online experiences and social media presence? And if personalization practices seek to act on our behalf, then how can users constitute, retain, or relinquish their autonomy and sense of self? At the heart of the book are new interviews and focus groups with web users who-through a myriad of resistant, tactical, resigned or trusting engagements-encounter algorithmic personalization as part of their lived experience on the web. Tanya Kant proposes that for those who encounter it, algorithmic personalization creates epistemic uncertainties that can emerge as trust or anxiety, produces an ongoing struggle for autonomy between user and system, and even has the power to intervene in identity constitution. In doing so, algorithmic personalization does not just generate "filter bubbles" for individuals' worldviews, but also creates new implications for knowledge production, the deployment of cultural capital as an algorithmic tactic, and, above all, formations of identity itself.
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• SECTION I: DEVELOPMENT AND DESIGN OF HCI METHODS
• Chapter 1 With or Against Each Other? The Influence of a Virtual Agent's (Non) cooperative Behavior on User's Cooperation Behavior in the Prisoners' Dilemma
• Chapter 2 Development of a Human Computer Interface System using EOG
• Chapter 3 Development and Preliminary Investigation of a Semiautonomous Socially Assistive Robot (SAR) Designed to Elicit Communication, Motor Skills, Emotion, and Visual Regard (Engagement) from Young Children with Complex Cerebral Palsy: A Pilot Comparative Trial
• Chapter 4 Ergonomic Design of Human-CNC MachineInterface SECTION II: REAL-WORLD APPLICATIONS OF HCI TECHNIQUES
• Chapter 5 Non-intrusive Physiological Monitoring for Affective Sensing of Computer Users
• Chapter 6 Modeling Human-Computer Interaction in Smart Spaces: Existing and Emerging Techniques
• Chapter 7 Application Prospects of The Augmented Reality Technology for Improving Safety of Machine Operators
• Chapter 8 Miniaturized Human 3D Motion Input SECTION III: DATA ENTRY AND PHYSICAL INTERACTION SYSTEMS
• Chapter 9 Structured Light Illumination Methods for Continuous Motion Hand and Face-Computer Interaction
• Chapter 10 A Method for Designing Physical User Interfaces for Intelligent Production Environments
• Chapter 11 A New PC-Based Text Entry System Based on EOG Coding
• Chapter 12 Head-Mounted Displays in Ultrasound Scanning SECTION IV: ASSISTIVE AND COGNITIVE ROLE OF THE HCI TECHNIQUES
• Chapter 13 Improving Human-Computer Interaction by Developing Culture-sensitive Applications based on Common Sense Knowledge
• Chapter 14 The Role of Head-Up Display in Computer-Assisted Instruction
• Chapter 15 Elderly People Benefit More from Positive Feedback Based on Their Reactions in the Form of Facial Expressions during Human-Computer Interaction
• Chapter 16 How Influential Are Mental Models on Interaction Performance? Exploring the Gap between Users' and Designers' Mental Models through a New Quantitative Method.
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Human-Computer Interaction takes into account the development of human-computer interaction methods. It includes the development and preliminary investigation of a semiautonomous socially assistive robot and ergonomic design of human-CNC machine interface. This book also discusses about real-world applications of HCI techniques, non-intrusive physiological monitoring for affective sensing of computer users, modeling human-computer interaction in smart spaces: existing and emerging techniques, structured light illumination methods for continuous motion hand and face-computer interaction, a method for designing physical user interfaces for intelligent production environments and the role of head-up display in computer-assisted instruction.
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• Frontmatter
• Introduction
• Contents
• List of Contributing Authors
• Part I: Foundations of user modeling
• 1. Theory-grounded user modeling for personalized HCI / Graus, Mark P. / Ferwerda, Bruce
• 2. Opportunities and challenges of utilizing personality traits for personalization in HCI / Völkel, Sarah Theres / Schödel, Ramona / Buschek, Daniel / Stachl, Clemens / Au, Quay / Bischl, Bernd / Bühner, Markus / Hussmann, Heinrich
• Part II: User input and feedback
• 3. Automated personalization of input methods and processes / Augstein, Mirjam / Neumayr, Thomas
• 4. How to use socio-emotional signals for adaptive training / Moebert, Tobias / Schneider, Jan N. / Zoerner, Dietmar / Tscherejkina, Anna / Lucke, Ulrike
• 5. Explanations and user control in recommender systems / Jannach, Dietmar / Jugovac, Michael / Nunes, Ingrid
• Part III: Personalization approaches
• 6. Tourist trip recommendations -- foundations, state of the art, and challenges / Herzog, Daniel / Dietz, Linus W. / Wörndl, Wolfgang
• 7. Pictures as a tool for matching tourist preferences with destinations / Grossmann, Wilfried / Sertkan, Mete / Neidhardt, Julia / Werthner, Hannes
• 8. Towards personalized virtual reality touring through cross-object user interfaces / Li, Xiangdong / Zhou, Yunzhan / Chen, Wenqian / Hansen, Preben / Geng, Weidong / Sun, Lingyun
• 9. User awareness in music recommender systems / Knees, Peter / Schedl, Markus / Ferwerda, Bruce / Laplante, Audrey
• 10. Personalizing the user interface for people with disabilities / Abascal, Julio / Arbelaitz, Olatz / Gardeazabal, Xabier / Muguerza, Javier / Pérez, J. Eduardo / Valencia, Xabier / Yera, Ainhoa
• 11. Adaptive workplace learning assistance / Kravčík, Miloš
• Index

Personalized and adaptive systems employ user models to adapt content, services, interaction or navigation to individual users' needs. User models can be inferred from implicitly observed information, such as the user's interaction history or current location, or from explicitly entered information, such as user profile data or ratings. Applications of personalization include item recommendation, location-based services, learning assistance and the tailored selection of interaction modalities. With the transition from desktop computers to mobile devices and ubiquitous environments, the need for adapting to changing contexts is even more important. However, this also poses new challenges concerning privacy issues, user control, transparency, and explainability. In addition, user experience and other human factors are becoming increasingly important. This book describes foundations of user modeling, discusses user interaction as a basis for adaptivity, and showcases several personalization approaches in a variety of domains, including music recommendation, tourism, and accessible user interfaces.
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This book presents computational interaction as an approach to explaining and enhancing the interaction between humans and information technology. Computational interaction applies abstraction, automation, and analysis to inform our understanding of the structure of interaction and also to inform the design of the software that drives new and exciting human-computer interfaces. The methods of computational interaction allow, for example, designers to identify user interfaces that are optimal against some objective criteria. They also allow software engineers to build interactive systems that adapt their behaviour to better suit individual capacities and preferences. Embedded in an iterative design process, computational interaction has the potential to complement human strengths and provide methods for generating inspiring and elegant designs. Computational interaction does not exclude the messy and complicated behaviour of humans, rather it embraces it by, for example, using models that are sensitive to uncertainty and that capture subtle variations between individual users. It also promotes the idea that there are many aspects of interaction that can be augmented by algorithms. This book introduces computational interaction design to the reader by exploring a wide range of computational interaction techniques, strategies and methods. It explains how techniques such as optimisation, economic modelling, machine learning, control theory, formal methods, cognitive models and statistical language processing can be used to model interaction and design more expressive, efficient and versatile interaction.
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This book presents computational interaction as an approach to explaining and enhancing the interaction between humans and information technology. Computational interaction applies abstraction, automation, and analysis to inform our understanding of the structure of interaction and also to inform the design of the software that drives new and exciting human-computer interfaces. The methods of computational interaction allow, for example, designers to identify user interfaces that are optimal against some objective criteria. They also allow software engineers to build interactive systems that adapt their behaviour to better suit individual capacities and preferences. Embedded in an iterative design process, computational interaction has the potential to complement human strengths and provide methods for generating inspiring and elegant designs. Computational interaction does not exclude the messy and complicated behaviour of humans, rather it embraces it by, for example, using models that are sensitive to uncertainty and that capture subtle variations between individual users. It also promotes the idea that there are many aspects of interaction that can be augmented by algorithms. This book introduces computational interaction design to the reader by exploring a wide range of computational interaction techniques, strategies and methods. It explains how techniques such as optimisation, economic modelling, machine learning, control theory, formal methods, cognitive models and statistical language processing can be used to model interaction and design more expressive, efficient and versatile interaction.
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Pocket Universal Principles of Art is a portable but still comprehensive reference for all artists, and a companion volume to Rockport Publishers' best-selling Universal Principles of Design.

• Prologue.- Reading and Interpreting Ethnography.- Using Curiosity, Creativity, and Surprise as Analytic Tools: Grounded Theory Method as a Way of Knowing in HCI.- Knowing by Doing: Action Research as an Approach to HCI.- Concepts, Values, and Methods for Technical Human-Computer Interaction Research.- Study, Build, Repeat: Using Online Communities as a Research Platform.- Field Deployments: Knowing from Using in Context.- Science and Design.- The Rise of Research through Design in HCI.- Experimental Research in HCI.- Surveys in HCI.- Crowdsourcing in HCI Research.- Sensor Data Streams.- Eye-tracking: A Brief Introduction.- Understanding User Behavior through Log Data and Analysis.- Looking Back: Retrospective Study Methods for HCI.- Agent Based Modeling to Inform the Design of Multiuser Systems.- Social Network Analysis.- Research and Ethics in HCI.- Epilogue.
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This textbook brings together both new and traditional research methods in Human Computer Interaction (HCI). Research methods include interviews and observations, ethnography, grounded theory and analysis of digital traces of behavior. Readers will gain an understanding of the type of knowledge each method provides, its disciplinary roots and how each contributes to understanding users, user behavior and the context of use. The background context, clear explanations and sample exercises make this an ideal textbook for graduate students, as well as a valuable reference for researchers and practitioners.
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Design academics and practitioners are facing a multiplicity of challenges in a dynamic, complex, world moving faster than the current design paradigm which is largely tied to the values and imperatives of commercial enterprise. Current education and practice need to evolve to ensure that the discipline of design meets sustainability drivers and equips students, teachers and professionals for the near-future. New approaches, methods and tools are urgently required as sustainability expands the context for design and what it means to be a 'designer'. Design activists, who comprise a diverse range of designers, teachers and other actors, are setting new ambitions for design. They seek to fundamentally challenge how, where and when design can catalyse positive impacts to address sustainability. They are also challenging who can utilise the power of the design process. To date, examination of contemporary and emergent design activism is poorly represented in the literature. This book will provide a rigorous exploration of design activism that will re-vitalise the design debate and provide a solid platform for students, teachers, design professionals and other disciplines interested in transformative (design) activism. Design Activism provides a comprehensive study of contemporary and emergent design activism. This activism has a dual aim - to make positive impacts towards more sustainable ways of living and working; and to challenge and reinvigorate design praxis, . It will collate, synthesise and analyse design activist approaches, processes, methods, tools and inspirational examples/outcomes from disparate sources and, in doing so, will create a specific canon of work to illuminate contemporary design discourse. Design Activism reveals the power of design for positive social and environmental change, design with a central activist role in the sustainability challenge. Inspired by past design activists and set against the context of global-local tensions, expressions of design activism are mapped. The nature of contemporary design activism is explored, from individual/collective action to the infrastructure that supports it generating powerful participatory design approaches, a diverse toolbox and inspirational outcomes. This is design as a political and social act, design to enable adaptive societal capacity for co-futuring.

The world needs beautiful design. But aesthetics are inherently subjective. In Design Currency, authors Jenn and Ken Visocky O'Grady show you how to frame the value of your design work in terms that your business partners will both understand and respect. An actionable resource, Design Currency empowers you to do your job with less pushback on aesthetic decisions, encourages earlier involvement in the creation process, and makes it easier for you to justify your fees. For a designer, understanding how your work creates value is essential to growing your business and building better, more profitable relationships. Those relationships are easier to initiate, establish, and retain when you can clearly explain how your capabilities meet your client's needs. This book shows you how to do exactly that. In Design Currency, you will learn how to: Leverage traditional design skills in new ways Measure the value that your design work brings to a project Articulate that value so that you can position yourself as a partner in the development process Charge what you're worth and prevent your job from getting crowd-sourced or out-sourced Generate business value by better identifying audience needs.

A new wave of products is helping people change their behavior and daily routines, whether it's exercising more (Jawbone Up), taking control of their finances (HelloWallet), or organizing their email (Mailbox). This practical guide shows you how to design these types of products for users seeking to take action and achieve specific goals. Stephen Wendel, HelloWallet's head researcher, takes you step-by-step through the process of applying behavioral economics and psychology to the practical problems of product design and development. Using a combination of lean and agile development methods, you'll learn a simple iterative approach for identifying target users and behaviors, building the product, and gauging its effectiveness. Discover how to create easy-to-use products to help people make positive changes. Learn the three main strategies to help people change behavior Identify your target audience and the behaviors they seek to change Extract user stories and identify obstacles to behavior change Develop effective interface designs that are enjoyable to use Measure your product's impact and learn ways to improve it Use practical examples from products like Nest, Fitbit, and Opower.
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This book is a landmark in showing how industrial-organizational psychology and related fields contribute to environmental sustainability in organizations. Industrial-organizational psychology embraces a scientist/practitioner model: evidence-based best practice to solve real-world issues. The contributors to this book are experts in science and practice, demonstrating the ways in which human-organization interactions can drive change to produce environmentally beneficial outcomes. Overall, the authors address cogent issues and provide specific examples of how industrial-organizational psychology can guide interventions that support and maintain environmentally sound practices in organizations. Green Organizations can be used as a general reference for researchers, in courses on sustainable business, corporate social responsibility, ethical management practices and social entrepreneurship. The book will provide an excellent overview for anyone interested in sustainability in organizations, and will serve as a valuable guide to industrial-organizational psychology and management professionals.

• Historical Context The Human Factor Interaction Elements Scientific Foundations Designing HCI Experiments Hypothesis Testing Modeling Interaction Writing and Publishing a Research Paper.
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Human-Computer Interaction: An Empirical Research Perspective is the definitive guide to empirical research in HCI. The book begins with foundational topics including historical context, the human factor, interaction elements, and the fundamentals of science and research. From there, you'll progress to learning about the methods for conducting an experiment to evaluate a new computer interface or interaction technique. There are detailed discussions and how-to analyses on models of interaction, focusing on descriptive models and predictive models. Writing and publishing a research paper is explored with helpful tips for success. Throughout the book, you'll find hands-on exercises, checklists, and real-world examples. This is your must-have, comprehensive guide to empirical and experimental research in HCI-an essential addition to your HCI library.
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• Technology-Based Training
• The Training Design Process
• Technology-based Program Development Process
• Scriptwriting and Storyboarding
• Production Design
• Training Design and Production Tips
• Resources.
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Training and informational programming has always been an important application of video and is one of the most important applications for multimedia. The use of technology in training for industry, government, health care and education has increased dramatically in recent years. Video, text, graphics, animation and sound are combined in various ways to convey concept, attitude and technical skill. Designing and Producing Media-Based Training examines why, how and when you can use technology for training, and describes successful approaches to creating effective technology-based training. It describes the instructional design process, scriptwriting, multimedia authoring, media production and new, technology-based training delivery systems. Among the many topics covered are: training delivery trends; the training design process; defining the audience; reproduction, program design and production design; scripting and storyboarding; uses of light and color; Written by a highly-experienced training consultant, Designing and Producing Media-Based Training will provide training professionals, corporate managers, multimedia designers and producers, and videomakers with tools for designing effective technology-based training programs.
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