User Interfaces category: 886 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
This volume addresses the emerging area of human computation, The chapters, written by leading international researchers, explore existing and future opportunities to combine the respective strengths of both humans and machines in order to create powerful problem-solving capabilities. The book bridges...
by Nan Cao, Weiwei Cui
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
This book provides a systematic review of many advanced techniques to support the analysis of large collections of documents, ranging from the elementary to the profound, covering all the aspects of the visualization of text documents. Particularly, we start by introducing the fundamental concept...
Indexing
From Thesauri to the Semantic Web
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Indexing consists of both novel and more traditional techniques. Cutting-edge indexing techniques, such as automatic indexing, ontologies, and topic maps, were developed independently of older techniques such as thesauri, but it is now recognized that these older methods also hold expertise.
Indexing...
Second Lives
A Journey Through Virtual Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2008
We’ve always dreamed of perfect places: Eden, heaven, Utopia. Imagine gambling without loss, love without heartbreak, sex without exposure, experience without risk. Welcome to the fascinating world of online virtual reality, the land of invented places and populations that is entered and inhabited...
A Journey Through Cultures
Metaphors for Guiding the Design of Cross-Cultural Interactive Systems
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
A Journey Through Cultures addresses one of the hottest topics in contemporary HCI: cultural diversity amongst users. For a number of years the HCI community has been investigating alternatives to enhance the design of cross-cultural systems. Most contributions to date have followed either a ‘design...
Cooperative Work and Coordinative Practices
Contributions to the Conceptual Foundations of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
Information technology has been used in organisational settings and for organisational purposes such as accounting, for a half century, but IT is now increasingly being used for the purposes of mediating and regulating complex activities in which multiple professional users are involved, such as in...
by Symeon Huang
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
If you are a programmer looking for a truly cross-platform GUI framework to help you save your time by side-stepping the incompatibility between different platforms and building applications using Qt 5 for multiple targets, then this book is most certainly intended for you. It is assumed that you have a basic programming experience of C++ and fundamental knowledge about Qt.
by Soumya K Ghosh, Arindam Chaudhuri
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
This book proposes complex hierarchical deep architectures (HDA) for predicting bankruptcy, a topical issue for business and corporate institutions that in the past has been tackled using statistical, market-based and machine-intelligence prediction models. The HDA are formed through fuzzy rough tensor...
by David Geiger
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
This book examines the principles of and advances in personalized task recommendation in crowdsourcing systems, with the aim of improving their overall efficiency. It discusses the challenges faced by personalized task recommendation when crowdsourcing systems channel human workforces, knowledge,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
As we approach the beginning of the 21 st century, we are beginning to see the emer gence of knowledge management as a natural evolution of the focus and importance of quality in the 1980s and reengineering in the I 990s. Quality placed a huge em phasis on getting all employees to use their brainpower...
Interactive 3D Multimedia Content
Models for Creation, Management, Search and Presentation
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
The book describes recent research results in the areas of modelling, creation, management and presentation of interactive 3D multimedia content. The book describes the current state of the art in the field and identifies the most important research and design issues. Consecutive chapters address...
Proceedings of the International Conference on Human-centric Computing 2011 and Embedded and Multimedia Computing 2011
HumanCom & EMC 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2011
Proceedings of the International Conference on Human-centric Computing and Embedded and Multimedia Computing (HumanCom & EMC 2011) will cover topics of HumanCom and EMC, the current hot topics satisfying the world-wide ever-changing needs.
Human-centric computing is to create novel solutions...
Advances in The Human Side of Service Engineering
Proceedings of the AHFE 2017 International Conference on The Human Side of Service Engineering, July 17−21, 2017, The Westin Bonaventure Hotel, Los Angeles, California, USA
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
This book explores the different ways in which human-factors engineering influences organizations’ and enterprises’ well-being and competitiveness. It covers a wealth of interrelated topics such as service engineering, service science, human–computer interaction, service usability, attitude...
by Ella Roubtsova
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
This classroom-texted textbook/reference presents a set of useful modeling techniques, describing how these can be combined into a powerful framework for the analysis and design of business systems. These techniques follow an interactive modeling and simulation (IMS) approach, enabling the modeling...