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• Preface
• Introducing Performative Experience Design
• Performativity
• What Exactly is Performance?
• The Performative Experience Design Methodology
• Designing Collect Yourselves!
• Performing Collect Yourselves!
• Guidelines for Designers/Researchers
• Looking Forwards.-Index.

This book presents a novel framework for understanding and designing performative experiences with digital technologies. It introduces readers to performance theory and practice in the context of HCI and gives a practical and holistic approach for understanding complex interactions with digital technologies at the far end of third-wave HCI. The author presents a step-by-step explanation of the Performative Experience Design methodology, along with a detailed case study of the design process as it was applied to co-located digital photo sharing. Finally, the text offers guidelines for design and a vision of how PED can contribute to an ethical, critical, exploratory, and humane understanding of the ways that we engage meaningfully with digital technology. Researchers, students and practitioners working in this important and evolving field will find this state-of-the-art book a valuable addition to their reading.

• Introduction.-Fundamentals
• Control Tasks Based on Artificial Potential Fields
• Redundancy Resolution by Null Space Projections
• Stability Analysis
• Whole-Body Coordination
• Integration of the Whole-Body Controller into a Higher-Level Framework
• Summary.

Introducing mobile humanoid robots into human environments requires the systems to physically interact and execute multiple concurrent tasks. The monograph at hand presents a whole-body torque controller for dexterous and safe robotic manipulation. This control approach enables a mobile humanoid robot to simultaneously meet several control objectives with different pre-defined levels of priority, while providing the skills for compliant physical contacts with humans and the environment. After a general introduction into the topic of whole-body control, several essential reactive tasks are developed to extend the repertoire of robotic control objectives. Additionally, the classical Cartesian impedance is extended to the case of mobile robots. All of these tasks are then combined and integrated into an overall, priority-based control law. Besides the experimental validation of the approach, the formal proof of asymptotic stability for this hierarchical controller is presented. By interconnecting the whole-body controller with an artificial intelligence, the immense potential of the integrated approach for complex real-world applications is shown. Several typical household chores, such as autonomously wiping a window or sweeping the floor with a broom, are successfully performed on the mobile humanoid robot Rollin? Justin of the German Aerospace Center (DLR). The results suggest the presented controller for a large variety of fields of application such as service robotics, human-robot cooperation in industry, telepresence in medical applications, space robotics scenarios, and the operation of mobile robots in dangerous and hazardous environments.

• Preface A virtuous method
• Instruments and consequences Adventures and assurances
• Competences and virtues
• Agendas and maxims
• Internal good of design Quality of use or life
• User with a multiple personality Anti-usability
• Neighbour-centred design
• Worth of use Imagining a practice
• Impartially opinionated Applicability
• Ignored use Conviction-critical use Justified exclusion
• Tolerance for emergence
• From usability to applicability
• Utilitarian user experience Bentham today Pleasure and pain
• Against utility
• User exertion
• A word with two meanings
• Articulating justice in design
• Conductors of justice
• Division of labour to ensure justice
• Flourishing hybrids
• Compromising wellbeing
• Trading in human dignity
• A transitional position Controversies and moderations Design as a contract
• References.
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How do we design for users? How might users best participate in the design process? How can we evaluate the user's experience of designed products and services? These fundamental questions are addressed in Designers, Users, and Justice, through a series of dialogues between a design scholar and a designer. In a series of conversations, the scholar and the designer address the concepts and practice of user centred design, examining whether a 'just method' necessarily leads to a just design, consider different models for understanding user experience and socially productive design, including the capability approach and utilitarianism, and ponder how an ethical framework for evaluating design might be developed. Throughout, the scholar and the designer draw on their particular experiences in design practice and design education, and propose alternative conceptualisations of the key ideas of user centred design, highlighting and seeking to address the ethical shortcomings of mainstream user centred design practice.
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• Classical Cognition
• Mediated Cognition
• Situated Action
• Embodied Cognition
• Distributed, External and Extended Cognition
• Enactive Cognition
• Epistemic Coping
• Make-Believe with Technology
• Post-Cognitive Interaction.

This book explores the role of cognition in the field of human-computer interaction (HCI) assessing how the field has developed over the past thirty years and discusses where the field is heading, as we begin to live in increasingly interconnected digital environments. Taking a broad chronological view, the author discusses cognition in relation to areas like make-believe, and appropriation, and places these more recent concepts in the context of traditional thinking about the psychology of HCI. HCI Redux will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchers in psychology, the cognitive sciences and HCI. It will also be of interest to all readers with a curiosity about our everyday use of technology.

• Swinging from Digital Playgrounds.- At the Intersection of Digital and Physical Play: The Lifecycle of a Two Bit Circus Game.- Story Room: The Computer as Live-action Storyteller for Adaptive Game Play.- Virtual Reality and the Future of Entertainment.- Interview with Brent N. Bushnell, Co-Founder and CEO of Two Bit Circus.
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This brief will explore topics in computer science through the lens of Two Bit Circus, an engineering entertainment company based out of downtown Los Angeles. This brief examines the ways they apply computer science to a wide variety of applications, including interactive games, immersive adventures, and virtual reality. The authors demonstrate how technology can encourage children and adults to become more comfortable with the STEAM field. Educators and people interested in the ways that innovation and technology can solve current problems in entertainment, healthcare, education, and business will find this brief a valuable resource. Two Bit Circus creates unique productions that encourage playful collaboration across multiple platforms in interactive and meaningful ways. The company produces high tech games and immersive entertainment experiences that merge physical and digital play.
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• Chocolate P Automata.- Solving the N-Queens Puzzle by Using Few Membranes.- Model of Antibiotic Resistance Evolution Dynamics Through P Systems with Active Membranes and Communication Rules.- Small Spiking Neural P Systems with Structural Plasticity.- Approximating Polygons for Space-Filling Curves Generated with P Systems.- A Logical Representation of P Colonies: An Introduction.- The Fair Proportion is a Shapley Value on Phylogenetic Networks Too.- Deterministic Parsing with P Colony Automata.- ACORD: Ant Colony Optimization and BNF Grammar Rule Derivation.- Membrane Computing as a Modeling Tool: Looking Back and Forward from Seville.- Identifiable Kernel P Systems.- Other Buds in Membrane Computing.- The Java Environment for Nature-Inspired Approaches (JENA): A Workbench for Bio-Computing and Bio-Modeling Enthusiasts.- WEBRSIM: A Web-Based Reaction Systems Simulator.- Open Problems in Membrane Computing and How Not to Solve Them.- A Note on the Entropy of .- An Introduction to cP Systems .- A Look at the Descriptional Complexity of SNQ P Systems.- Design Patterns for Efficient Solutions to NP-Complete Problems in Membrane Computing.- Spiking Neural P Systems: Theoretical Results and Applications.- Aggregating Parallel Multi-set Rewriting Systems.- On Languages Generated by Context-Free Matrix Insertion-Deletion Systems with Exo-Operations.- A Simulation Workflow for Membrane Computing: from MeCoSim to PMCGPU Through P-Lingua.- An Implementation of Elementary Arithmetic with Virus Machine.- A Kernel-Based Membrane Clustering Algorithm.
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This Festschrift is in honor of Mario de Jesus Perez-Jimenez, Professor in the Department of Computer Science of University of Seville, Spain, on the occasion of his 70th birthday. The title of this volume reflects both his main research area, viz., Natural Computing, and the guiding principle of his functioning: "once you choose to do something, enjoy doing it". The respect that Professor Mario de Jesus Perez-Jimenez enjoys in the scientific community was well demonstrated by the enthusiastic response received to the request to contribute to this book. The contributions by more than 70 authors from 15 countries cover a wide spectrum of research areas and reflect well the broad range of research interests of Professor Mario de Jesus Perez-Jimenez. The research areas presented in this Festschrift include membrane computing, spiking neural networks, phylogenetic networks, ant colonies optimization, workbench for biocomputing, reaction systems, entropy of computation, rewriting systems, and insertion-deletion systems.
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• Introduction
• Beauty Technology Definition
• Hair Interfaces
• Skin Interfaces
• Nail Interfaces
• Final Consideration
• References
• Index
• Annex 1. Awards
• Annex 2. Publications
• Annex 3. Exhibitions and Demos
• Annex 4. Media Coverage.

"The increasing advances in electronics allows smaller and more powerful devices, bringing wearable computing closer to reality. However, most wearable computers are very distinguished and placed on clothes and accessories. This book tries to tackle this phenomenon by introducing a new wearable computing subfield called beauty technology. By using the body's surface as an interactive platform, the integration of technology into beauty products is explored and can be applied directly to ones skin, fingernails, and hair adding new functionality to beauty products using technology in a personal, seamless and fashionable way. An interdisciplinary approach is taken, exploring the design of Beauty Technologies such as Conductive Makeup, Tech Nails, Hairware and FX e-makeup in order to create novel interfaces for Human Computer Interaction"--Provided by publisher

• Introduction Digital Touch Communication
• Introduction
• Touch matters
• Digital Touch
• Situating this Book: A Social Revaluing of the Sensory and Multimodal
• InTouch Digital Touch Communication
• Overview of the Book
• In-Touch Case Studies
• In Touch with Baby
• The Art of Remote Contact
• Tactile Emoticon
• Designing Digital Touch
• Virtual Touch
• Interdisciplinary Collaborations to Explore Touch
• Introduction
• Interdisciplinary Dialogues of Digital Touch Communication
• Prototyping
• Conclusion
• The landscape of digital touch communication
• Introduction
• Affective and Social Robot Touch
• Human-Object Touch Communication
• Object/Textile Handling
• Education and Training
• Disability and Rehabilitation
• Conclusion
• Social Norms of Touch
• Introduction
• Technology and Changing Social Norms
• Digital Touch and Social Norms
• Touching the body
• Digital Touching
• Conclusion
• Touch presence, absence and connection
• Introduction
• Tactile Emoticon
• Beyond the Interface
• Remote Contact
• Touch Connection as a Bodily Way of Knowing
• In Touch with Baby
• Conclusion
• Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Digital Touch
• Introduction
• The Sociotechnical Imaginary as a Design Resource
• Body
• Time
• Place and Spatiality
• New Methodological Routes to Imagining Digital Touch Futures Conclusion
• Digital Touch Ethics and Values
• Introduction
• What is Ethical Touch?
• Touch, Body and 'Machine'
• A Note on Study
• Ethics
• Conclusion
• Closing Thoughts, Insights and Research and Design Resources for Digital Touch Communication
• A Social Perspective on Digital Touch
• Insights for digital touch communication
• Social Norms and Digital Touch
• Touch Connections
• Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Digital Touch The Ethics of Touch
• Methodologies for Digital Touch
• An Emergent Research and Design Framework for Digital Touch Communication.

Communication is increasingly moving beyond 'ways of seeing' to 'ways of feeling'. This Open Access book provides social design insights and implications for HCI research and design exploring digitally mediated touch communication. It offers a socially orientated map to help navigate the complex social landscape of digitally mediated touch for communication: from everyday touch-screens, tangibles, wearables, haptics for virtual reality, to the tactile internet of skin. Drawing on literature reviews, new case-study vignettes, and exemplars of digital touch, the book examines the major social debates provoked by digital touch, and investigates social themes central to the communicative potential and societal consequences of digital touch: ʺ Communication environments, capacities and practices ʺ Norms associations and expectations ʺ Presence, absence and connection ʺ Social imaginaries of digital touch ʺ Digital touch ethics and values The book concludes with a discussion of the significance of social understanding and methods in the context of Interdisciplinary collaborations to explore touch, towards the design of digital touch communication, 'ways of feeling', that are useable, appropriate, ethical and socially aware.

• Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- Part I: Audiophotography Defined.- Ambient Photographs.- Ambient Photographs.- Talking Photographs.- Conversational Photographs.- Paper Versus Screen Playback.- Part II: What Happened Next?.- Research and Development Within HP.- External Research.- External Development.- Lessons.- Index.
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As well as updating the manifesto for an audio photography technology and practice, this book addresses issues in design history, the social shaping of technology and the management of innovation. In particular, it reveals the very different timescales over which design and innovation operate, and the way in which design ideas evolve across different research groups, companies and application areas. The capture of photographs with sound is a simple idea, proposed 10 years ago, that has still not become widespread. In this new edition of the seminal 2004 book on Audio photography, the author asks "Why?" A journey through the book's citations and related commercial products shows considerable progress in understanding the role of sound in photography, and myriad design experiments to support audio visual storytelling as a new media form. The book is a story in itself about the "long nose of innovation", and a lesson about the need for patience and persistence in the computer industry. To reinforce this point five of the 2004 chapters are re-published in their original form. These describe invariant properties of ambient musical, talking and conversational photographs, and the possibility of playback from paper as well as screen. Fast Design, Slow Innovation will be of interest to researchers and designers of new media systems and experiences, and to innovation scholars or managers looking for a ten year case study of innovation in action.
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• AGI and the Knight-Darwin Law: why idealized AGI reproduction requires collaboration.- Error-Correction for AI Safety.- Artificial Creativity Augmentation.- The hierarchical memory based on compartmental spiking neuron model.- The Dynamics of Growing Symbols: A Ludics Approach to Language Design by Autonomous Agents.- Approach for development of engineering tools based on knowledge graphs and context separation.- Towards Dynamic Process Composition in the DSO Cognitive Architecture.- SAGE: Task-Environment Platform for Evaluating a Broad Range of AI Learners.- Post-Turing Methodology: Breaking the Wall on the Way to Artificial General Intelligence.- Self-explaining AI as an alternative to interpretable AI.- AGI needs the Humanities.- A report of a recent book: "AI and Human Thought and Emotion".- Cognitive Machinery and Behaviours.- Combinatorial Decision Dags: A Natural Computational Model for General Intelligence.- What Kind of Programming Language Best Suits Integrative AGI?.- Guiding Symbolic Natural Language Grammar Induction via Transformer-Based Sequence Probabilities.- Embedding Vector Differences Can Be Aligned With Uncertain Intensional Logic Differences.- Delta Schema Network in Model-based Reinforcement Learning.- Information Digital Twin{Enabling Agents to Anticipate Changes in their Tasks.- 'OpenNARS for Applications': Architecture and Control.- Towards AGI Agent Safety by Iteratively Improving the Utility Function.- Learning to Model Another Agent's Beliefs: A Preliminary Approach.- An Attentional Control Mechanism for Reasoning and Learning.- Hyperdimensional Representations in Semiotic Approach to AGI.- The Conditions of Artificial General Intelligence: Logic, Autonomy, Resilience, Integrity, Morality, Emotion, Embodiment, and Embeddedness.- Position paper: The use of engineering approach in creation of artificial general intelligence.- How do you test the strength of AI?.- Omega: An Architecture for AI Unification.- Analyzing Elementary School Olympiad Math Tasks as a Benchmark for AGI.- The meaning of things as a concept in a strong AI architecture.- Toward a General Believable Model of Human-Analogous Intelligent Socially Emotional Behavior.- Autonomous Cumulative Transfer Learning.- New Brain Simulator II Open-Source Software.- Experience-specific AGI Paradigms.- Psychological portrait of a virtual agent in the Teleport game paradigm.- Logical probabilistic biologically inspired cognitive architecture.- An Architecture for Real-time Reasoning and Learning.- A Model for Artificial General Intelligence.
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, AGI 2020, held in St. Petersburg, Russia, in September 2020.The 30 full papers and 8 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. The papers cover topics such as AGI architectures, artificial creativity and AI safety, transfer learning, AI unification and benchmarks for AGI.
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• Preface
• Introduction
• Looking for Tangibility
• Concepts and Tools for Designers
• Innovation
• Complexity
• Flexibility
• Maturity
• Stability
• Sustainability
• Arts
• Conclusion.

Distinguishing between tangible user interfaces (TUI) and tangible interactive systems (TISs), this book takes into account not only the user interfaces but also looks at how interaction can be enabled by using digital information through the physical environment. TISs go far beyond the concept of tangible user interfaces, addressing large complex systems in the framework of human-centred design and putting the human at the center of the design process from the start. How can human-centered designers grasp the real world with computers? This question is explored by looking at concepts such as innovation, complexity, flexibility, maturity, stability, sustainability and art to see whether we can assess both physical and figurative tangibility during the design process before product delivery. Concepts like creativity, design thinking and team spirit are fundamental to TIS?s human-centered design, and are presented together with human-systems integration (HSI), agile development and formative evaluations to build a greater understanding of this new area of research. Tangible Interactive Systems would be an essential read to designers, academics and other professionals concerned with product design within HCI, industrial design, virtual engineering and other related areas.

• Preface
• Tacit Engagement
• Knowledge = Skill
• Knowledge is Skilled Peformance.-The Body
• Knowing How, Knowing That, Knowing When
• Tacit Engagement: Betwixt and Inbetween.

This book explores how digital technology is altering the relationships between people and how the very nature of interface itself needs to be reconsidered to reflect this - how we can make sense of each other, handle ambiguities, negotiate differences, empathise and collectively make skilled judgments in our modern society. The author presents new directions for research at the relational-transactional intersection of contrasting disciplines of arts, science and technology, and in so doing, presents philosophical and artistic questions for future research on human connectivity in our digital age. The book presents frameworks and methods for conducting research and study of tacit engagement that includes ethnography, experiments, discourse analysis, gesture analysis, psycholinguistic analysis, artistic experiments, installations, and improvisation. Case studies illustrate the use of various methods and the application and emergence of frameworks. Tacit Engagement will be of interest to researchers, designers, teachers and students concerned with new media, social media and communications networks; interactive interfaces, including information systems, knowledge management, robotics, and presence technologies. Not since Michael Polanyi have we seen such wise science about the tacit: how we know more than we can tell. Gill brings to the present era of design and data a profoundly needed perspective on meaning that comes from social dialogue, skilled performance, relational gesture and rhythm. - Sha Xin Wei, Ph. D. (Synthesis, ASU).

• Introduction.- Part I: Interdisciplinary Dialogue.- Applying HCI Methods and Concepts to Architectural Design (or Why Architects could use HCI, Even if They Don't Know It).- What Is It about Space that is Important in Interaction? Let's Take the World From a Situated Point of View.- Part II: Approaching Interaction in Space
• Supporting Fluid Transitions in Innovative Learning spaces: Architectural, Social and Technological Factors.- Creative Workplace Alchemies: Individual Workspaces and Collaboration Hotspots.- Getting it Going: Explorations at the Intersection of Moving Bodies, Information Technology & Architecture.- Measuring Interaction in Workplaces.- Part III: Going Abstract about the Concrete.- Community Is the Message: Viewing Networked Public Displays through McLuhan's Media Theory.- Embodied Interactions with Adaptive Architecture.- Part IV: Activating Spaces.- Mapping the Intangible: On Adaptivity & Relational Prototyping in Architectural Design.- An Interactive Simulation Environment for Adaptive Architectural Systems.- Robotic Building as Physically Built Robotic Environments and Robotically Supported Building Processes.- Part V: Sights and Magnifications.- Northern Urban Lights: Emplaced Experiences of Urban Lighting as Digital Augmentation.- Reading and Responding to the Digital Footprints of Mobile Visitors.- On Potential Application of Interaction Design for Placemaking.
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Ubiquitous computing has a vision of information and interaction being embedded in the world around us; this forms the basis of this book. Built environments are subjects of design and architects have seen digital elements incorporated into the fabric of buildings as a way of creating environments that meet the dynamic challenges of future habitation. Methods for prototyping interactive buildings are discussed and the theoretical overlaps between both domains are explored. Topics like the role of space and technology within the workplace as well as the role of embodiment in understanding how buildings and technology can influence action are discussed, as well as investigating the creation of place with new methodologies to investigate the occupation of buildings and how they can be used to understand spatial technologies. Architecture and Interaction is aimed at researchers and practitioners in the field of computing who want to gain a greater insight into the challenges of creating technologies in the built environment and those from the architectural and urban design disciplines who wish to incorporate digital information technologies in future buildings.
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• Invited Papers.- Human-Computer Interfaces.- Robot Control, Embedded and Navigation Systems.- Bio-Data Analysis and Mining.- Biomedical Signal Processing.- Image and Motion Data Processing.- Decision Support and Expert Systems.- Pattern Recognition.- Fuzzy Systems.- Algorithms and Optimisation.- Computer Networks and Mobile Technologies.- Data Management Systems.
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This book provides an overview of the current state of research on development and application of methods, algorithms, tools and systems associated with the studies on man-machine interaction. Modern machines and computer systems are designed not only to process information, but also to work in dynamic environment, supporting or even replacing human activities in areas such as business, industry, medicine or military. The interdisciplinary field of research on man-machine interactions focuses on broad range of aspects related to the ways in which human make or use computational artifacts, systems and infrastructure. This monograph is the fourth edition in the series and presents new concepts concerning analysis, design and evaluation of man-machine systems. The selection of high-quality, original papers covers a wide scope of research topics focused on the main problems and challenges encountered within rapidly evolving new forms of human-machine relationships. The presented material is structured into following sections: human-computer interfaces, robot, control, embedded and navigation systems, bio-data analysis and mining, biomedical signal processing, image and motion data processing, decision support and expert systems, pattern recognition, fuzzy systems, algorithms and optimisation, computer networks and mobile technologies, and data management systems.
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• Theoretical Perspectives on User Engagement.- Translating Theory into Methodological Practice.- eLearning.- Engagement in Digital Games.- Designing for User Experience and Engagement.- User Engagement with Digital Health Technologies.- Engagement in Information Search.- User Engagement with Interactive Media: A Communication Perspective.- A Model of Social Media Engagement: User Profiles, Gratifications, and Experiences.- Conclusion.- Index.
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User Engagement (UE) is a complex concept to investigate. The purpose of this book is not to constrain UE to one perspective, but to offer a well-rounded appreciation for UE across various domains and disciplines. The text begins with two foundational chapters that describe theoretical and methodological approaches to user engagement; the remaining contributions examine UE from different disciplinary perspectives and across a range of computer-mediated environments, including social and communications media, online search, eLearning, games, and eHealth. The book concludes by bringing together the cross-disciplinary perspectives presented in each chapter and proposing an agenda for future research in this area. The book will appeal to established and emerging academic and industry researchers looking to pursue research and its challenges. This includes scholars at all levels with an interest in user engagement with digital media, from students to experienced researchers, and professionals in the fields of computer science, web technology, information science, museum studies, learning and health sciences, human-computer interaction, information architecture and design, and creative arts.
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• Foreword
• Preface.- Introduction
• Part I: Everything You Wanted to Know About the Evolution of Computerized Technology, But Where Afraid to Ask
• You are Here
• How Computing Became Ubiquitous and What That Means
• Getting Excited About Calm Technology
• The Evolution of Humans and Technology Part 1
• Humans
• The Evolution of Humans and Technology Part 2
• Technology
• The Evolution of Humans and Technology Part 3
• Computers
• What are Human Factors and Why Should We Care?
• Ergonomics and Biomechanics: The Surprising Science of Using your Body
• Psychology and Neurology: The Surprisingly simple Science of Using your Brain. Part II: Taking Control
• It's as Easy as A, B, C
• The Theory of Anthropology-Based Computing
• The Early Days of Anthropology-Based Computing
• The Future of Anthropology-Based Computing
• Part III: Citizen Science: Simple Solutions to Improve the Way Your Technology Treats You
• Stop your Mouse from Twisting Your Arm
• Stop your Keyboard from Twisting Your Arm
• Stop your Tech From Wringing Your Neck, Breaking Your Back, and Being an All-Round Pain In Your ... Life
• Stop Your Phone from Screaming at You (and Everyone Else!)
• Stop your Messages from Killing You (or Your Friends, or Total Strangers)
• Stop Your Dashboard Navigator from Driving You to Distraction.- Stop your Noise-Blocking, High Volume Headlines from Stopping Your Ears
• Your Chapter, an Invitation
• Afterword.

We have always built tools to improve our productivity and help us lead better lives; however we find ourselves constantly battling against our new computerized tools, making us less productive and putting our health and our lives at risk. This book looks at Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) from a truly human-centred perspective; focusing on human physiology and psychology rather than the motley series of brilliant innovations, glorified mistakes, and cross-generational habits that comprise the computer-centred HCI that we practice today. This three-part guide argues that human interest and calm technology need to be at the heart of HCI. It begins by exposing the inherent dangers in past and present HCI. Using his past experiences within Anthropology, Linguistics, Education, Ergonomics, Human Factors, and Computer Science the author introduces and explores the theory of 'Anthropology-Based Computing' (ABC) as well as a new ideas like Dynamic Environmental Focus (DEF), a new model of General Human Interaction (GHI), and a new triune model of the brain: Brown's Representation of Anthropogenic Interaction in Natural Settings (BRAINS). Detailed illustrations show how HCI can be improved by considering how human bodies and brains actually work. The final part is a series of simple illustrated experiments, each applying an aspect of ABC to improve the way our computers and computerized devices treat us. Anthropology-Based Computing is written for those who work with computers, not just those who work on them. Students and researchers in Design and Psychology, and Computer Scientists as well, will benefit from seeing what is missing from the devices that are already in place, why that is, and how to make the practical changes that will immediately improve the physiological and psychological experience of using phones, on-board navigation systems, and the countless other computers we use at work and at home today and will continue to use in the future.

• Cross-cultural collaboration
• Learning support systems
• Social networking
• Rescue and health support
• Real and virtual collaboration.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Collaboration Technologies, CollabTech 2016, held in Kanazawa, Japan, in September 2016. The 16 revised full papers presented together with 4 short papers and a keynote were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. The papers focus on the following topics: cross-cultural collaboration; learning support systems; social networking; rescue and health support; real and virtual collaboration.

• Introduction: HCI reaches adolescence
• Understanding Adolescents
• Ethical Considerations in Face-to-Face and Internet-Mediated Research with Teenage Populations
• Human Factors Multi-technique Approach to Teenage Engagement in Digital Technologies Health Research
• Designing Interactive Technologies with Teenagers in a Hospital Setting
• Using a Rich Pictures Approach for Gathering Students and Teachers Digital Education Requirements
• Engaging Teens in Dialogue on Potential Technological Futures with User Enactments
• Involving Teenagers Today in the Design of Tomorrow's Technology
• Designing Teenage Emotions with a Life of Their Own
• Working with Teenagers in HCI Research: A Reflection on Techniques Used in the Taking on the Teenagers Project
• Future Directions for Quality TeenCI Research.

"Teen Computer Interaction is concerned with the design, evaluation and implementation of technologies for teenagers and with the study of major phenomena surrounding them. It aims to give special consideration to the unique development issues and diversity of this particular user group. Teenagers are possibly the most diverse, dynamic and technologically-aware user group. Working with teenagers can enable researchers to gather valuable insights and opportunities to inform the design and implementation of new technologies. Researchers have now begun to acknowledge that Teen Computer Interaction is a specialised area of HCI and this book brings together some of the best work in this field to-date. The book provides relevant HCI communities with an inclusive account of methods and examples of best practise to inform those working with teenagers in research and design projects. The chapters recount research with teenagers in many different domains and provide many different contributions to the field of Teen Computer Interaction including design methods, models, case studies and ethical considerations. The aim of this book is to provide a solid foundation from which the discipline of Teen Computer Interaction can grow, by providing a valuable resource for those wishing to conduct HCI research with teenagers. Perspectives on HCI Research with Teenagers is aimed at academics, practitioners, designers, researchers and students who are interested in the new and emergent field of Teen Computer Interaction"--Provided by publisher

• Foreword.- Preface.- Metaphors and User Interfaces in the 21st Century.- Culture Class vs. Culture Clash.- CHI as a Cross-Tribal Community.- Dare We Define User-Interface Design?.- The Cult of Cute: The Challenge of User-Experience Design.- User-Interface Design and China: A Great Leap Forward.- Universal, Ubiquitous, User-Interface Design for the Disabled and Elderly.- Icons/Symbols and More: Visible Languages to Facilitate Communication.- What Do UI Designers Think About Protecting Their Designs?.- When is a User Not a User? Who Are We? What Do We Do?.- The Emotion Commotion.- The Next Revolution: Vehicle User Interfaces.- Patterns within Patterns.- User-Experience Planning for Corporate Success.- Insights on Outsourcing.- Branding 101 It's About Time.- User-Centered Design (UCD) in the Enterprise: Corporations Begin to Focus on UCD.- Dreaming of Robots: An Interview About Robots with Bruce Sterling.- The Out-of-Box Home Experience: Remote from Reality.- Usability Grows Up: The Great Debate.- Education and CHI.- When in Rome, Do as the Romans Do: HCII 2005 Recap.- Dashboards in Your Future.- Visualizing the Future of Information Visualization.- HCI Sci-Fi at the Movies and on TV.- Wit and Wisdom: Where Do We Turn for Advice?.- From KidCHI to BabyCHI
• SeniorCHI: The Geezers are Coming!.- Taxonomies to Tax the Couch-Potato's Cortex
• Happy Birthday! CHI at 25.- Big Spaces, Big Lives, Big Challenges.- Fun! Fun! Fun! In the User Experience.- Am I Pushing Your Buttons?
• The Sun Rises in the East.- HCI Goes Mainstream in the Comics.- Saving the USA, and So Can You: FaceBucks to the Rescue.
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This book consists of a series of essays which addresses the essentials of the development processes in user-experience design (UX design) planning, research, analysis, evaluation, training and implementation, and deals with the essential components (metaphors, mental models, navigation, and appearance) of user-interfaces and user-experiences during the period of 2002-2007. These essays grew from the authors own column entitled 'Fast Forward' which appeared in Interaction Magazine - the flagship publication of the ACM Special Interest Group on Human-Computing Interaction (SIGCHI). Written in such a way as to ensure longevity, these essays have not been edited or updated, however a short Postscripts has been added to provide some comments on each topic from a current perspective. HCI and User-Experience Design provides a fascinating historical review of the professional and research world of UX and HCI during a period of significant growth and development and would be of interest to students, researchers, and designers who are interested in recent developments within the field.
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• Preface
• List of Reviewers
• List of Contributors
• Discovery of Complex User Communities
• Community Discovery: Simple and Scalable Approaches
• Community Discovery in Multi-Mode Networks
• Discovering Communities in Multi-relational Networks
• Group Types in Social Media
• Privacy Issues in Discovering Communities in Social Networks.

This book redefines community discovery in the new world of Online Social Networks and Web 2.0 applications, through real-world problems and applications in the context of the Web, pointing out the current and future challenges of the field. Particular emphasis is placed on the issues of community representation, efficiency and scalability, detection of communities in hypergraphs, such as multi-mode and multi-relational networks, characterization of social media communities and online privacy aspects of online communities. User Community Discovery is for computer scientists, data scientists, social scientists and complex systems researchers, as well as students within these disciplines, while the connections to real-world problem settings and applications makes the book appealing for engineers and practitioners in the industry, in particular those interested in the highly attractive fields of data science and big data analytics.