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Global Social Media Design - Bridging Differences Across Cultures

by Huatong Sun

~~62,26€~~ 49,81€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 Social media users fracture into tribes, but social media ecosystems are globally interconnected technically, socially, culturally, and economically. At the crossroads, Huatong Sun, author of Cross-Cultural Technology Design, presents theory, method, and case studies to uncover the global interconnectedness of social media design and reorient universal design standards. Centering on the dynamics between structure and agency, Sun draws on practice theories and transnational fieldwork and articulates a critical design approach. The "CLUE2 (CLUE squared)" framework extends from situated activity to social practice, and connects macro institutions with micro interactions to redress asymmetrical relations in everyday life.Why were Japanese users not crazed about Facebook? Would Twitter have had been more successful than its copycat Weibo in China if not banned? How did mobilities and value propositions play out in the competition of WhatsApp, WeChat, LINE, and KakaoTalk for global growth? Illustrating the cultural entanglement with a relational view of design, Sun provides three provocative accounts of cross-cultural social media design and use. Concepts such as affordance, genre, and uptake are demonstrated as design tools to bind the material with the discursive and leap from the critical to the generative for culturally sustaining design.Sun calls to reshape the crossroads into a design square where differences are nourished as design resources, where diverse discourses interact for innovation, and where alternative design epistemes thrive from the local. This timely book will appeal to researchers, students, and practitioners who design across disciplines, paradigms, and boundaries to bridge differences in this increasingly globalized world.
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Global Social Media Design - Bridging Differences Across Cultures

by Huatong Sun

~~62,26€~~ 49,81€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 Social media users fracture into tribes, but social media ecosystems are globally interconnected technically, socially, culturally, and economically. At the crossroads, Huatong Sun, author of Cross-Cultural Technology Design, presents theory, method, and case studies to uncover the global interconnectedness of social media design and reorient universal design standards. Centering on the dynamics between structure and agency, Sun draws on practice theories and transnational fieldwork and articulates a critical design approach. The "CLUE2 (CLUE squared)" framework extends from situated activity to social practice, and connects macro institutions with micro interactions to redress asymmetrical relations in everyday life.Why were Japanese users not crazed about Facebook? Would Twitter have had been more successful than its copycat Weibo in China if not banned? How did mobilities and value propositions play out in the competition of WhatsApp, WeChat, LINE, and KakaoTalk for global growth? Illustrating the cultural entanglement with a relational view of design, Sun provides three provocative accounts of cross-cultural social media design and use. Concepts such as affordance, genre, and uptake are demonstrated as design tools to bind the material with the discursive and leap from the critical to the generative for culturally sustaining design.Sun calls to reshape the crossroads into a design square where differences are nourished as design resources, where diverse discourses interact for innovation, and where alternative design epistemes thrive from the local. This timely book will appeal to researchers, students, and practitioners who design across disciplines, paradigms, and boundaries to bridge differences in this increasingly globalized world.
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Information Foraging Theory - Adaptive Interaction With Information

by Peter L. T. Pirolli

~~34,44€~~ 27,55€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 Although much of the hubris and hyperbole surrounding the 1990''s Internet has softened to a reasonable level, the inexorable momentum of information growth continues unabated. This wealth of information provides resources for adapting to the problems posed by our increasingly complex world, but the simple availability of more information does not guarantee its successful transformation into valuable knowledge that shapes, guides, and improves our activity. When faced with something like the analysis of sense-making behavior on the web, traditional research models tell us a lot about learning and performance with browser operations, but very little about how people will actively navigate and search through information structures, what information they will choose to consume, and what conceptual models they will induce about the landscape of cyberspace. Thus, it is fortunate that a new field of research, Adaptive Information Interaction (AII), is becoming possible. AII centers on the problems of understanding and improving human-information interaction. It is about how people will best shape themselves to their information environments, and how information environments can best be shaped to people. Its roots lie in human-computer interaction (HCI), information retrieval, and the behavioral and social sciences. This book is about Information Foraging Theory (IFT), a new theory in Adaptive Information Interaction that is one example of a recent flourish of theories in adaptationist psychology that draw upon evolutionary-ecological theory in biology. IFT assumes that people (indeed, all organisms) are ecologically rational, and that human information-seeking mechanisms and strategies adapt the structure of the information environments in which they operate. Its main aim is to create technology that is better shaped to users. Information Foraging Theory will be of interest to student and professional researchers in HCI and cognitive psychology.
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Neuroergonomics - The Brain At Work

~~45,04€~~ 36,03€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 This volume provides the first systematic overview of this emerging area, describing its theoretical background, basic research, major methods, as well as the new and future areas of application.
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Computers, Phones, And The Internet - Domesticating Information Technology

~~29,14€~~ 23,31€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 This book brings together the leading researchers currently investigating the impact of information and communication technology outside of the workplace.
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Human-Tech - Ethical And Scientific Foundations

by Kim Vicente

~~68,89€~~ 55,11€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 In The Human Factor, Kim Vicente coined the term ''Human-tech'' to describe a more encompassing and ambitious approach to the study of Human-Technology Interaction (HTI) than is now evident in any of its participating disciplines, such as human factors, human-computer interaction, cognitive science and engineering, industrial design, informatics or applied psychology. Observing that the way forward is ''not by widgets alone,'' Vicente''s Human-tech approach addresses every level--physical, psychological, team, organizational, and political--at which technology impacts quality of life, identifies a human or societal need, and then tailors technology to what we know about human nature at that level. The Human Factor was written for a broad audience, in part to educate general readers beyond the HTI community about the need to think seriously about the tremendous impact that poorly designed technology can have, ranging from user frustration to the tragic loss of human life. The articles collected in this book provide much of the technical material behind the work that was presented in The Human Factor, and the commentaries by Alex Kirlik situate these articles in their broader historical, scientific and ethical context. This collection of articles and commentaries forms a set of recommendations for how HTI research ought to broaden both its perspective and its practical, even ethical, aspirations to meet the increasingly complicated challenges of designing technology to support human work, to improve quality of life, and to design the way will live with technology. As the first book both to integrate the theory and research underlying Human-tech, and to clearly delineate the scientific challenges and ethical responsibilities that await those who either design technology for human use, or design technology that influences or even structures the working or daily lives of others, Human-tech: Ethical and Scientific Foundations will appeal to the broad range of students and scholars in all of the HTI disciplines.
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Attention - From Theory To Practice

by Alex Kirlik, Arthur F. Kramer e Douglas A. Wiegmann

~~80,81€~~ 64,65€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 How can these researchers in human-technology interaction take advantage of all the knowledge amassed on attention in basic-science research? This volume addresses this question and includes a comprehensive introduction on briding theory and practice in the psychology of attention and a conclusion outlining a future research agenda.
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Neuroergonomics - The Brain At Work

~~45,04€~~ 36,03€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 This volume provides the first systematic overview of this emerging area, describing its theoretical background, basic research, major methods, as well as the new and future areas of application.
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Adaptive Perspectives On Human-Technology Interaction - Methods And Models For Cognitive Engineering And Human-Computer Interaction

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 In everyday life, and particularly in the modern workplace, information technology and automation increasingly mediate, augment, and sometimes even interfere with how humans interact with their environment. How to understand and support cognition in human-technology interaction is both a practically and socially relevant problem. The chapters in this volume frame this problem in adaptive terms: How are behavior and cognition adapted, or perhaps ill-adapted, to the demands and opportunities of an environment where interaction is mediated by tools and technology? The authors draw heavily on the work of Egon Brunswik, a pioneer in ecological and cognitive psychology, as well as on modern refinements and extensions of Brunswikian ideas, including Hammond''s Social Judgment Theory, Gigerenzer''s Ecological Rationality and Anderson''s Rational Analysis. Inspired by Brunswik''s view of cognition as "coming to terms" with the "casual texture" of the external world, the chapters in this volume provide quantitative and computational models and measures for studying how people come to terms with an increasingly technological ecology, and provide insights for supporting cognition and performance through design, training, and other interventions. The methods, models, and measures presented in this book provide timely and important resources for addressing problems in the rapidly growing field of human-technology interaction. The book will be of interest to researchers, students, and practitioners in human factors, cognitive engineering, human-computer interaction, judgment and decision making, and cognitive science.
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Taming Information Technology - Lessons From Studies Of System Administrators

by Eben Haber, Eser Kandogan, John Bailey e Paul Maglio

~~70,21€~~ 56,17€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 Information technology is at the center of modern life. It supports most day-to-day activities: talking on the phone, getting money from an ATM, or working in the office. Whether for work, commerce, or fun, we interact with computers, networks, and databases - all sorts of information technology. How does it work? Certainly, technological advances helped create this world. But what keeps it running? The answer is people. These people - computer systemadministrators - are the unsung heroes of the modern age. This book, ten years in the making, is the result. It tells the story of system administration through the narratives of real system administrators. It documents dynamic systems of people and machines, of specialists working together to tame hugelycomplex information technology infrastructures, developing and adapting their own tools and practices over time to create productive work environments. The authors hope Taming Information Technology will lead the way to a future in which the important work of these IT workers is better appreciated, better understood, and better supported.
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Computers, Phones, And The Internet - Domesticating Information Technology

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 This book brings together the leading researchers currently investigating the impact of information and communication technology outside of the workplace.
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Information Foraging Theory - Adaptive Interaction With Information

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Adaptive Perspectives On Human-Technology Interaction - Methods And Models For Cognitive Engineering And Human-Computer Interaction

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Rediscovering The Umma - Muslims In The Balkans Between Nationalism And Transnationalism

by Ina (Marie Curie Fellow, Irish School Of Ecumenics/Trinity College Dublin) Merdjanova

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 This book discusses the role of Islam in the political and social developments in the Balkans after the fall of communism. It explores comparatively the transformations of Muslim identities under the influence of various national and transnational, domestic and global factors.
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Social Dilemmas - The Psychology Of Human Cooperation

by Craig D. (Professor Of Psychology, Professor Of Psychology, Washington State University) Parks

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 This book provides a psychological overview of research on human cooperation, while discussing evolutionary and cultural perspectives, along with applications in management, environment, national security, and health.
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Exposing The Magic Of Design - A Practitioner'S Guide To The Methods And Theory Of Synthesis

by Jon (Director, Director, Austin Center For Design) Kolko

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 This book offers a way of thinking about complicated, multifaceted problems with a repeatable degree of success.
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Love Canal - A Toxic History From Colonial Times To The Present

by Richard S. (Professor Of History, Professor Of History, Rochester Institute Of Technology) Newman

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 A history of the Love Canal region from the nation's founding and the utopian city planned for the Niagara area to the building of the region's chemistry industry to the environmental disaster at Love Canal and its aftermath.
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Let Me Heal - The Opportunity To Preserve Excellence In American Medicine

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 This insightful,engaging the history of US graduate medical education explores the social and moral value of physician training to society as a whole and how improving excellence in GME can stimulate and guide meaningful health care reform.
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Taming Information Technology - Lessons From Studies Of System Administrators

by Eben (Research Staff Member, Research Staff Member, Ibm Research - Almaden) Haber e John (Director Of Product Design, Director Of Product Design, Ca Technologies) Bailey

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 Information technology is at the center of modern life. It supports most day-to-day activities: talking on the phone, getting money from an ATM, or working in the office. Whether for work, commerce, or fun, we interact with computers, networks, and databases - all sorts of information technology. How does it work? Certainly, technological advances helped create this world. But what keeps it running? The answer is people. These people - computer systemadministrators - are the unsung heroes of the modern age. This book, ten years in the making, is the result. It tells the story of system administration through the narratives of real system administrators. It documents dynamic systems of people and machines, of specialists working together to tame hugelycomplex information technology infrastructures, developing and adapting their own tools and practices over time to create productive work environments. The authors hope Taming Information Technology will lead the way to a future in which the important work of these IT workers is better appreciated, better understood, and better supported.
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An Analysis Of The Economic Torts

by Hazel (Reader In Law, Manchester University Law School) Carty

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 Economic torts are an area under-theorised and sparsely explored. Hazel Carty cuts through the resulting chaos to provide practical legal research to analyse the ingredients, uncertainties, and possibilities of the economic torts, and to suggest a coherent framework for their future development.
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Being There Together - Social Interaction In Shared Virtual Environments

by Ralph (James Martin Research Fellow, James Martin Research Fellow, Oxford University) Schroeder

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Cross-Cultural Technology Design - Creating Culture-Sensitive Technology For Local Users

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 This book explores how to create culture-sensitive technology for local users in an increasingly globalized world with rising participatory culture. Illustrated with a cross-cultural study of mobile messaging use, Sun presents an innovative framework integrating action and meaning through a dialogical, cyclical design process to create usable and meaningful technology.
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Neuroergonomics - The Brain At Work

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 This volume provides the first systematic overview of this emerging area, describing its theoretical background, basic research, major methods, as well as the new and future areas of application.
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