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• Why seductive interactions?
• Why aesthetics?
• Are you easily understood?
• Are you attractive?
• who do you remind people of?
• When aesthetics aren't attractive
• The power of faces
• Are you fun to be around?
• Are you unpredictable?
• Are you stimulating?
• Are you mysterious?
• Can people express themselves around you?
• Small first steps
• coming on too strong (and how not to)
• Attracting attention
• The path of least resistance
• The influence of words
• An eye for details
• Real world games
• A challenge worth pursuing
• Making things difficult
• How are we doing?
• What's the prize?
• Let's get serious
• Only beginning.

What happens when you've built a great website or app, but no one seems to care? How do you get people to stick around long enough to see how your service might be of value? In Seductive Interaction Design, speaker and author Stephen P. Anderson takes a fresh approach to designing sites and interactions based on the stages of seduction. This beautifully designed book examines what motivates people to act. Topics include: AESTHETICS, BEAUTY, AND BEHAVIOR: Why do striking visuals grab our attention? And how do emotions affect judgment and behavior? PLAYFUL SEDUCTION: How do you create playful engagements during the moment? Why are serendipity, arousal, rewards, and other delights critical to a good experience? THE SUBTLE ART OF SEDUCTION: How do you put people at ease through clear and suggestive language? What are some subtle ways to influence behavior and get people to move from intent to action? THE GAME OF SEDUCTION: How do you continue motivating people long after the first encounter? Are there lessons to be gained from learning theories or game design? Principles from psychology are found throughout the book, along with dozens of examples showing how these techniques have been applied with great success. In addition, each section includes interviews with influential web and interaction designers.
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• Foreword / Kristee Rosendahl
• Ch. 1. Multimedia in a Nutshell
• Ch. 2. The Architecture of Multimedia
• Ch. 3. A Look at Authoring Tools
• Ch. 4. User Interface Design
• Ch. 5. Graphic Production Tips and Strategies
• Ch. 6. Understanding Color and Palettes
• Ch. 7. Media Design Showcase.

If you're interested in being part of the booming field of multimedia, this beautifully illustrated volume shows you how. Its concept-to-product approach is highly visual: with stunning, full-color samples of actual multimedia projects. Title structure, user interface, software dynamics, and many other factors that affect design decisions are explained in detail.
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• Foreword by Jakon Nielsen Acknowledgments Part I-Introduction to Paper Prototyping
• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Case Studies
• Chapter 3: Thinking about Prototyping
• Chapter 4: Making a Paper Prototype Part II-Process: Conducting a Usability Study with a Paper Prototype
• Chapter 5: Planning a Usability Study with a Paper Prototype
• Chapter 6: Task Design
• Chapter 7: Preparing the Prototype
• Chapter 8: Introduction to Usability Test Facilitation
• Chapter 9: Usability Testing with a Paper Prototype
• Chapter 10: Observers
• Chapter 11: Data: Capturing, Prioritizing, and Communicating Part III-Deciding Whether to Use Paper
• Chapter 12: What Paper Is (and Isn't) Good For
• Chapter 13: The Politics of Paper Prototyping
• Chapter 14: When to Use Paper Part IV-Broadening the Focus
• Chapter 15: Examples of User-Centered Design
• Chapter 16: Final Thoughts References Index Figure Credits About the Author.
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Do you spend a lot of time during the design process wondering what users really need? Do you hate those endless meetings where you argue how the interface should work? Have you ever developed something that later had to be completely redesigned? Paper Prototyping can help. Written by a usability engineer with a long and successful paper prototyping history, this book is a practical, how-to guide that will prepare you to create and test paper prototypes of all kinds of user interfaces. You'll see how to simulate various kinds of interface elements and interactions. You'll learn about the practical aspects of paper prototyping, such as deciding when the technique is appropriate, scheduling the activities, and handling the skepticism of others in your organization. Numerous case studies and images throughout the book show you real world examples of paper prototyping at work. Learn how to use this powerful technique to develop products that are more useful, intuitive, efficient, and pleasing: * Save time and money - solve key problems before implementation begins * Get user feedback early - use it to focus the development process * Communicate better - involve development team members from a variety of disciplines * Be more creative - experiment with many ideas before committing to one.
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• Front Cover; Paper Prototyping: The Fast and Easy Way to Design and Refine User Interfaces; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Part I: Introduction to Prototyping;
• Chapter 1. Introduction;
• Chapter 2. Case Studies;
• Chapter 3. Thinking about Prototyping;
• Chapter 4. Making a Paper Prototype; Part II: Process: Conducting a Usability Study with a Paper Prototype;
• Chapter 5. Planning a Usability Study with a Paper Prototype;
• Chapter 6. Task Design;
• Chapter 7. Preparing the Prototype;
• Chapter 8. Introduction to Usability Test Facilitation.

The practical guide on using paper prototyping when designing user interfaces.

• Force and Visual Control for Safe Human-Robot Interaction
• 3D Automatic Segmentation of the Hippocampus Using Wavelets with Applications to Radiotherapy Planning
• Rigid Registration of 3D Ultrasound and MRI: Comparing Two Approaches on Nine Tumor Cases
• A New Approach to Virtual Mirroring for View Integration
• Designing a Metric for the Difference between Gaussian Densities
• Physical Asymmetries and Brightness Perception
• A Learning-Based Patient Repositioning Method from Limited-Angle Projections
• Image and Video Region Saliency Based on Space and Motion
• Generalized PCA via the Backward Stepwise Approach in Image Analysis
• Performance of MRF-Based Stereo Algorithms for Cluttered Scenes
• Medial Spheres for Shape Approximation
• A Heuristic Algorithm for Slicing in the Rapid Freeze Prototyping of Sculptured Bodies
• Robust Design of 2nd Order Terminal ILC Using?-Analysis and a Genetic Algorithm Approach
• Development of an Anthropomorphic Saxophone-Playing Robot
• Human Safety Algorithms for a Parallel Cable-Driven Haptic Interface
• Hybrid Stabilizing Control for the Spatial Double Inverted Pendulum
• Closed-Loop Control of Plasma Osmolality
• Cooperative Exploration, Localization, and Visual Map Construction
• Sliding-Mode Velocity and Yaw Control of a 4WD Skid-Steering Mobile Robot
• On the Design and Validation of an Intelligent Powered Wheelchair: Lessons from the SmartWheeler Project
• Devon Island as a Proving Ground for Planetary Rovers
• Leader-Follower Cucker-Smale Type Flocking Synthesized via Mean Field Stochastic Control Theory
• Dynamic Locomotion with a Wheeled-Legged Quadruped Robot
• Underactuated Cable-Driven Robots: Machine, Control and Suspended Bodies
• Computing the Rigid-Body Acceleration Field from Nine Accelerometer Measurements
• Singularity Analysis of a Six-Dof Parallel Manipulator Using Grassmann-Cayley Algebra and Gröbner Bases.

On the occasion of its 25th anniversary, McGill University's Centre for Intelligent Machines (CIM) invited outstanding researchers from academia and R\ & D environments to discuss the state of the art in research areas of interest to CIM. The response is documented in the papers assembled here, under the umbrella of the {\em International Symposium on Brain, Body and Machine}, held in Montreal on November 10--13, 2010. Areas of interest include heuristic algorithms, computer vision, medical imaging, haptics, human-machine interaction, systems and control, robot design and control, and multibody system dynamics. Applications cover a road spectrum, from shape identification and reconstruction to drug-dose regulation and body-motion detection and control. Contributors come from research laboratories based all over the world, not only from academia, but also from government agencies and industry.

• General Human-System Interaction Problems.- Health Monitoring and Disabled People Helping Systems.- Various Information Processing Systems.
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This book contains an interesting and state-of the art collection of papers on the recent progress in Human-Computer System Interaction (H-CSI). It contributes the profound description of the actual status of the H-CSI field and also provides a solid base for further development and research in the discussed area. The contents of the book are divided into the following parts: I. General human-system interaction problems; II. Health monitoring and disabled people helping systems and III. Various information processing systems. This book is intended for a wide audience of readers who are not necessarily experts in computer science, machine learning or knowledge engineering, but are interested in Human-Computer Systems Interaction. The level of particular papers and specific spreading-out into particular parts is a reason why this volume makes fascinating reading. This gives the reader a much deeper insight than he/she might glean from research papers or talks at conferences. It touches on all deep issues that currently preoccupy the entire field of H-CSI.
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• Speech Quality in Telecommunications.- Speech QualityMeasurement Methods.- Optimization and Application of Integral Quality Estimation Models.- Diagnostic Instrumental Speech QualityModel.-Evaluation of DIAL.- Conclusions and Outlooks.- Modulated Noise Reference Unit (MNRU).-Databases test-plan.
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This work deals with the instrumental measurement methods for the perceived quality of transmitted speech. These measures simulate the speech perception process employed by human subjects during auditory experiments. The measure standardized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), called "Wideband-Perceptual Speech Quality Evaluation (WB-PESQ)", is not able to quantify all these perceived characteristics on a unidimensional quality scale, the Mean Opinion Score (MOS) scale. Recent experimental studies showed that subjects make use of several perceptual dimensions to judge about the quality of speech signals. In order to represent the signal at a higher stage of perception, a new model, called "Diagnostic Instrumental Assessment of Listening quality (DIAL)", has been developed. It includes a perceptual and a cognitive model which simulate the whole quality judgment process. Except for strong discontinuities, DIAL predicts very well speech quality of different speech processing and transmission systems, and it outperforms the WB-PESQ.
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Designing a good interface isn't easy. Users demand software that is well-behaved, good-looking, and easy to use. Your clients or managers demand originality and a short time to market. Your UI technology -- Web applications, desktop software, even mobile devices - may give you the tools you need, but little guidance on how to use them well. UI designers over the years have refined the art of interface design, evolving many best practices and reusable ideas. If you learn these, and understand why the best user interfaces work so well, you too can design engaging and usable interfaces with less guesswork and more confidence. "Designing Interfaces" captures those best practices as design patterns - solutions to common design problems, tailored to the situation at hand. Each pattern contains practical advice that you can put to use immediately, plus a variety of examples illustrated in full color. You'll get recommendations, design alternatives, and warnings on when not to use them. Each chapter's introduction describes key design concepts that are often misunderstood, such as affordances, visual hierarchy, navigational distance, and the use of color. These give you a deeper understanding of why the patterns work, and how to apply them with more insight. A book can't design an interface for you - no foolproof design process is given here - but "Designing Interfaces" does give you concrete ideas that you can mix and recombine as you see fit. Experienced designers can use it as a sourcebook of ideas. Novice designers will find a roadmap to the world of interface and interaction design, with enough guidance to start using these patterns immediately.
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• Introduction
• Who are the Digital Natives?
• Paradigm Shifts
• Blended Realities
• Nurturing Digital Natives
• Designing for Digital Natives
• Smart Homes
• Digital Governance
• Future Trends.

The first generation of Digital Natives (DNs) is now growing up. However, these digital natives were rather late starters since; their exposure to computers started when they could master the mouse and the penetration of computers in educational institutions was still very low. Today, a new breed of digital natives is emerging. This new breed includes those individuals who are being introduced from their first instances to the world of wireless devices. One year olds manage to master the intuitive touch interfaces of their tablets whilst sitting comfortably in their baby bouncers. The controller-less interfaces allow these children to interact with a machine in a way which was unconceivable below. Thus, our research investigated the paradigm shift between the different generations of digital natives. We analysed the way in which these two generations differ from each other and we explored how the world needs to change in order to harness the potential of these new digital natives.

• Introduction.- "Computers for the masses, not the classes".- The Commodore 64 and its Architecture.- Ready.- Games, games and more games!.- Rise of the Game Engines.- Windows and icons.- BBS: the Internet can wait.- Verba volant, scripta manent.- Today and Tomorrow.- Conclusions.
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How did the Commodore 64 conquer the hearts of millions and become a platform people still actively develop for even today? What made it so special? This book will appeal to both those who like tinkering with old technology as a hobby and nostalgic readers who simply want to enjoy a trip down memory lane. It discusses in a concise but rigorous format the different areas of home gaming and personal computing where the C64 managed to innovate and push forward existing boundaries. Starting from Jack Tramiel's vision of designing computers "for the masses, not the classes, " the book introduces the 6510, VIC-II and SID chips that made the C64 unique. It briefly discusses its Basic programming language and then proceeds to illustrate not only many of the games that are still so fondly remembered but also the first generation of game engines that made game development more approachable - among other topics that are often neglected but are necessary to provide a comprehensive overview of how far reaching theC64 influence was. Written in a straightforward and accessible style, readers will relive the dawn of modern technology and gain a better understanding of the legacy that was built, bit by bit, in those pioneering days by computers that had only a tiny fraction of the power modern machines have and, yet, were used to create the technological world we are now living in. With a foreword by Michael Tomczyk.
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• Introduction
• Decision-making in design
• The cases
• Kinds of decisions
• Streams of decisions
• Power, influence, trust and loyalty
• Participation
• Conclusions.

Providing a critical view on user participation in design, disentangling decision making and power in design, this book uses fieldwork material from two large participatory design projects: one experimental in the field of urban planning, the other a product development project within health care. Addressing power issues in participatory design is critical to providing a realistic view of the possibilities and limitations of participation. Design is decision-making: during a design process a huge number of decisions taken before the designers end up with a design result - an artefact or system. All decisions are a choice between possibilities and selecting one of them and making it concrete as a change in an artefact is a demonstration of the capacity to transform, which is a key aspect of power. Participatory designers are committed to empowering users and facilitating a design process where users are able to take part in all types of decisions. This volume explores the challenges for practitioners of participatory design arising from this commitment by asking what participation really means: who should participate and in which parts of a design process; what does it mean to share power with users; how are decisions to be made in a participatory way and what is it that users participate in? The book provides a conceptual framework for understanding these issues as well as a fresh look at participation.

• 1 A Learning Scheme for EMG Based Interfaces: On Task Specificity in Motion Decoding Domain
• 2 State of the art and perspectives of ultrasound imaging as a human-machine interface
• 3 Considering limb impedance in the design and control of prosthetic devices
• 4 Multi-axis Capability for Powered Ankle-foot Prostheses
• 5 Mimicking human-like leg function in prosthetic limbs
• 6 Multi-directional dynamic mechanical impedance of the human ankle; a key to anthropomorphism in lower extremity assistive robots
• 7 Development of the Quantified Human
• 8 Optimal Neural Representations for Brain-Mediated Human-Robot Interactions
• 9 Assisted Computer Interaction for Users with Weak Upper Limb Motion
• 10 Robotic Systems for Gait Rehabilitation
• 11 Enhancing recovery of sensorimotor functions: the role of robot generated haptic feedback in the re-learning process
• 12 Robotic Assistance for Cerebellar Reaching
• 13 A Human Augmentation Approach to Gait Restoration
• 14 Home-based rehabilitation: enabling frequent and effective training
• 15 Unilateral and Bilateral Rehabilitation of the Upper Limb Following Stroke via an Exoskeleton
• Index.

Neuro-robotics is one of the most multidisciplinary fields of the last decades, fusing information and knowledge from neuroscience, engineering and computer science. This book focuses on the results from the strategic alliance between Neuroscience and Robotics that help the scientific community to better understand the brain as well as design robotic devices and algorithms for interfacing humans and robots. The first part of the book introduces the idea of neuro-robotics, by presenting state-of-the-art bio-inspired devices. The second part of the book focuses on human-machine interfaces for performance augmentation, which can seen as augmentation of abilities of healthy subjects or assistance in case of the mobility impaired. The third part of the book focuses on the inverse problem, i.e. how we can use robotic devices that physically interact with the human body, in order (a) to understand human motor control and (b) to provide therapy to neurologically impaired people or people with disabilities.

• Tangible and tactile interaction
• Tools for design
• Touch and haptic
• User and task modelling.-Visualization
• Visualization 3D
• Visualization in virtual spaces
• Wearable computing
• Demonstrations
• Interactive Posters.

The four-volume set LNCS 9296-9299 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, INTERACT 2015, held in Bamberg, Germany, in September 2015. The 74 full and short papers and 4 organizational overviews, 2 panels, 6 tutorials, and 11 workshops included in the fourth volume are organized in topical sections on tangible and tactile interaction; tools for design; touch and haptic; user and task modelling; visualization; visualization 3D; visualization in virtual spaces; wearable computing; demonstrations; and interactive posters.

• Form Follows Practice.- Who Designs? Technological Mediation in Design Participation.- User's Continuity in Design Continuous Innovation.- Towards User Involvement in Envisioning Practices. Opening the Use of the Future.- Critical Design: a Delicate Balance between the Thrill of the Uncanny and the Interrogation of the Unknown.- Digital Objects Topologies: Transitions between Utility, Form and Intent.- Design Ethnography? Towards a Designerly Approach to Field Research.- (Mis)Behavioral Objects: Empowerment of Users vs Empowerment of Objects.- Open Sourcing Wearables: the Impact of Open Technologies and User Engagement in the Design of Body-Borne Interactive Products.- Trialogical Learning: a New Framework for Learning Through the Creative Relationship between Emerging Technologies and Multiple Participants.- Open Meta-Design: Tools for Designing Collaborative Processes.- Co-Design to Empower Cultural Heritage Professionals as Technology Designers: the meSch project.- User Empowerment and the I-Doc Model User.- "Nothing Makes Sense": New Aesthetics of Experiences in Self-Organizing Services.- A Manifesto for Epistemological Empowerment in Chronic Disease Self Care.
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At the crossroads of various disciplines, this collective work examines the possibility of a new end-user "engagement" in ongoing digital/technological products and services development. It provides an overview of recent research specifically focused on the user's democratic participation and empowerment. It also enables readers to better identify the main opportunities of participatory design, a concept which encourages the blurring of the role between user and designer. This allows people to escape their status as "end-user" and to elevate themselves to the level of creator. This book explores new avenues for rethinking the processes and practices of corporate innovation in order to cope with current socio-economic and technological changes. In so doing, it aims to help companies renew industrial models that allow them to design and produce new ranges of technological products and services by giving the user an active role in the development process, far beyond the basic role of consumer. Intended for designers, design researchers and scientists interested in innovation and technology management, this book also provides a valuable resource for professionals involved in technology-based innovation processes.
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• H
• HCI at the Human Scale --?Looking At the Computer but Doing It On Land?: Children's Interactions in a Tangible Programming Space
• The Usability of Digital Ink Technologies for Children and Teenagers
• PROTEUS: Artefact-driven Constructionist Assessment within Tablet PC-based Low-fidelity Prototyping
• The Reader Creates a Personal Meaning: A Comparative Study of Scenarios and Human-centred Stories
• What Difference Do Guidelines Make? An Observational Study of Online-questionnaire Design Guidelines Put to Practical Use
• Designing Interactive Systems in Context: From Prototype to Deployment
• Using Context Awareness to Enhance Visitor Engagement in a Gallery Space
• Engagement with an Interactive Museum Exhibit
• User Needs in e-Government: Conducting Policy Analysis with Models-on-the-Web
• Fit for Purpose Evaluation: The Case of a Public Information Kiosk for the Socially Disadvantaged
• A Visuo-Biometric Authentication Mechanism for Older Users
• C
• HCI in the Greater Cultural Context
• A Computer Science HCI Course
• Use and Usefulness of HCI Methods: Results from an Exploratory Study among Nordic HCI Practitioners
• Building Usability in India: Reflections from the Indo-European Systems Usability Partnership
• Visualizing the Evolution of HCI --?I thought it was terrible and everyone else loved it?
• A New Perspective for Effective Recommender System Design
• Rich Media, Poor Judgement? A Study of Media Effects on Users' Trust in Expertise
• Cultural Representations in Web Design: Differences in Emotions and Values
• Interaction Design for Countries with a Traditional Culture: A Comparative Study of Income Levels and Cultural Values
• Researching Culture and Usability
• A Conceptual Model of Usability
• I
• HCI Down at the Interface
• Distinguishing Vibrotactile Effects with Tactile Mouse and Trackball
• HyperGrid
• Accessing Complex Information Spaces
• Mixed Interaction Space
• Expanding the Interaction Space with Mobile Devices
• Static/Animated Diagrams and their Effect on Students Perceptions of Conceptual Understanding in Computer Aided Learning (CAL) Environments
• Media Co-authoring Practices in Responsive Physical Environments
• Cognitive Model Working Alongside the User
• Revisiting Web Design Guidelines by Exploring Users' Expectations, Preferences and Visual Search Behaviour
• Comparing Automatic and Manual Zooming Methods for Acquiring Off-screen Targets
• Forward and Backward Speech Skimming with the Elastic Audio Slider
• Design Patterns for Auditory Displays
• Closing Keynote of HCI2005: The Bigger Picture
• Grand Challenges in HCI: the Quest for Theory-led Design.

This volume contains the full papers presented at HCI 2005, the 19th Annual Conference of the British HCI Group, a specialist group of the BCS. The conference has become the premiere annual conference on human-computer interaction in Europe, attracting a global audience. People and Computers XIX includes leading edge discussions outlining the latest research results and novel systems from the foremost research and development groups and laboratories throughout the world. In keeping with our theme, The Bigger Picture, this year our authors collectively construct a broad canvas, though we can focus on HCI at three distinct levels: - The Human Scale - exploring the relationships between individuals mediated by tangible interfaces, ways of capturing their requirements and eliciting their needs, and considering the user in their immediate, local situations - The Cultural Context - zooming out to gain a perspective on HCI's place in the world and its relationship with external communities across different countries and cultures, seeing patterns in social networks both within the HCI community and with other stakeholders - Interactivity at the Interface - here we zoom back in to the detailed level, the traditional territory of HCI, with analysis of interface components and human senses, and the fit between them. We conclude with the call to action by our closing keynote, Professor Alistair Sutcliffe, who makes the connections to enable the HCI community to meet grand challenges in computer science. The papers presented in this volume include contributions from leading figures in both the research and business sectors.

• Hybrid Games: Designing Tangible Interfaces for Very Young Children
• The Power to Play when there is no Power
• Responsive Make and Play: Youth Making Physically and Digitally Responsive Game Controllers
• Human Computer Biosphere Interaction: Towards a Sustainable Society
• Envisioning Future Playful Interactive Environments for Animals
• Playful and Gameful Design for the Internet of Things
• Smart Materials: When Art Meets Technology
• MindMusic: Playful and Social Installations at the Interface between Music and the Brain
• Enhancing Remote Spectators? Experience During Live Sports Broad Casts with Second Screen Applications.

This book covers the latest advances in playful user interfaces? interfaces that invite social and physical interaction. These new developments include the use of audio, visual, tactile and physiological sensors to monitor, provide feedback and anticipate the behavior of human users. The decreasing cost of sensor and actuator technology makes it possible to integrate physical behavior information in human-computer interactions. This leads to many new entertainment and game applications that allow or require social and physical interaction in sensor- and actuator-equipped smart environments. The topics discussed include: human-nature interaction, human-animal interaction and the interaction with tangibles that are naturally integrated in our smart environments. Digitally supported remote audience participation in artistic or sport events is also discussed. One important theme that emerges throughout the book is the involvement of users in the digital-entertainment design process or even design and implementation of interactive entertainment by users themselves, including children doing so in educational settings.

• Introduction
• The CSS design process: on supporting context-sensitive systems development
• Context-driven testing on the cloud
• Context-based search, recommendation and browsing in software development
• Context aware and adaptive systems
• Context-aware middleware: A review
• Context-centered tools for Intelligent Assistant Systems
• Context and machine learning
• A Bayesian Framework for Life-Long Learning in Context-Aware Mobile Applications
• Context and NLP
• The QoCIM framework concepts and tools for quality of context management
• Contextualized scientific workflows in the cloud
• Context-sensitive trust evaluation in cooperating smart spaces
• The Cognitive Science basis for context
• User-centered Approaches to Context Awareness: Prospects and challenges
• Event quality awareness for contextualized decision support in e-health applications
• Computing the context effect for science learning
• Contextual cognition in social simulation
• SocioPlatform: A Platform for Social Context-Aware Applications
• Context and User-Centered Approaches: Icons in Cross-Cultural Context
• Context and Collaborative Work: A context-sensitive intervention approach for collaboration in dynamic environment
• The role of context and its elements in Situational Assessment
• Context and community Awareness in Support of user Intent Prediction
• Multi-context logics-a general introduction
• Constraint programming for context comprehension
• Context and Implicature
• Formalizing Context for Domain Ontologies in Coq
• Context and granularity
• Context and Case-based Reasoning
• Tactical reasoning through context-based reasoning
• Experience-based Reasoning by Contextual Graphs
• Representing Experience-based reasoning by Contextual Graphs
• Context-awareness in Multi-Agent Systems for Ambient Intelligence
• Contextual reasoning in an intelligent Electronic Patient Leaflet System.

This volume explores how context has been and can be used in computing to model human behaviors, actions and communications as well as to manage data and knowledge. It addresses context management and exploitation of context for sharing experience across domains. The book serves as a user-centric guide for readers wishing to develop context-based applications, as well as an intellectual reference on the concept of context. It provides a broad yet deep treatment of context in computing and related areas that depend heavily on computing. The coverage is broad because of its cross-disciplinary nature but treats topics at a sufficient depth to permit a reader to implement context in his/her computational endeavors. The volume addresses how context can be integrated in software and systems and how it can be used in a computing environment. Furthermore, the use of context to represent the human dimension, individually as well as collectively is explained. Contributions also include descriptions of how context has been represented in formal as well as non-formal, structured approaches. The last section describes several human behavior representation paradigms based on the concept of context as its central representational element. The depth and breadth of this content is certain to provide useful as well as intellectually enriching information to readers of diverse backgrounds who have an interest in or are intrigued by using context to assist in their representation of the real world.

• Introduction.- Part I Games for Semantics Acquisition.- State-of-the-art: semantics acquisition and crowdsourcing.- State-of-the-art: Semantics Acquisition Games.- Little Search Game: lightweight domain modeling.- PexAce: a method for image metadata acquisition.- CityLights: a method for music metadata validation.- Part II Designing the Semantics Acquisition Games.- State-of-the-art: design of the semantics acquisition games.- Our SAGs: design aspects and improvements.- Looking Ahead.
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Many applications depend on the effective acquisition of semantic metadata, and this state-of-the-art volume provides extensive coverage of the field of semantics acquisition games (SAGs). SAGs are a part of the crowdsourcing approach family and the authors analyze their role as tools for acquisition of resource metadata and domain models. Three case studies of SAG-based semantics acquisition methods are shown, along with other existing SAGs: 1. the Little Search Game - a search query formulation game using negative search, serving for acquisition of lightweight semantics. 2. the PexAce - a card game acquiring annotations to images. 3. the CityLights - a SAG used for validation of music metadata. The authors also look at the SAGs from their design perspectives covering SAG design issues and existing patterns, including several novel patterns. For solving cold start problems, a "helper artifact" scheme is presented, and for dealing with malicious player behavior, a posteriori cheating detection scheme is given. The book also presents methods for assessing information about player expertise, which can be used to make SAGs more effective in terms of useful output.
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• 1. Introduction.-
• 2. A Generic Process for Requirements Engineering.-
• 3. System Modelling for Requirements Engineering.-
• 4. Writing and Reviewing Requirements.-
• 5. Requirements Engineering in the Problem Domain.-
• 6. Requirements Engineering in the Solution Domain.-
• 7. Advanced Traceability.-
• 8. Management Aspects of Requirements Engineering.-
• 9. DOORS: A Tool to Manage Requirements.- Index.
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Written for those who want to develop their knowledge of requirements engineering process, whether practitioners or students. Using the latest research and driven by practical experience from industry, Requirements Engineering gives useful hints to practitioners on how to write and structure requirements. It explains the importance of Systems Engineering and the creation of effective solutions to problems. It describes the underlying representations used in system modeling and introduces the UML2, and considers the relationship between requirements and modeling. Covering a generic multi-layer requirements process, the book discusses the key elements of effective requirements management. The latest version of DOORS (Version 7) - a software tool which serves as an enabler of a requirements management process - is also introduced to the reader here. Additional material and links are available at: http://www.requirementsengineering.info.
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