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  • Touchstones of the Heart

    A Guide Out of Hell

    by Eliana Taeko Salter ...
    Eliana Taeko Salter, of full Japanese descent but raised in Brazil, was living a fulfilling life as a dentist with a degree from São Paulo's prestigious USP, one of the top dental schools in the world. Married and surrounded by a loving community, she was planning for children when tragedy struck. In May 1992, a horrific car accident claimed the lives of her parents and first husband, leaving ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Sensing Machines

    How Sensors Shape Our Everyday Life

    by Chris Salter ...
    How we are tracked, surveilled, tantalized, and seduced by machines ranging from smart watches and Roombas to immersive art installations.Sensing machines are everywhere in our world. As we move through the day, electronic sensors and computers adjust our thermostats, guide our Roombas, count our steps, change the orientation of an image when we rotate our phones. There are more of these ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Spaces Speak, Are You Listening?

    Experiencing Aural Architecture

    by Barry Blesser, Linda-Ruth Salter ...
    How we experience space by listening: the concepts of aural architecture, with examples ranging from Gothic cathedrals to surround sound home theater.We experience spaces not only by seeing but also by listening. We can navigate a room in the dark, and "hear" the emptiness of a house without furniture. Our experience of music in a concert hall depends on whether we sit in the front row or under ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • From the Campfire to the Holodeck

    Creating Engaging and Powerful 21st Century Learning Environments

    by David Thornburg ...
    How to optimize educational spaces and teaching practices for more effective learningAuthor David Thornburg, an award-winning futurist and educational consultant, maintains that in order to engage all students, learning institutions should offer a balance of Campfire spaces (home of the lecture), Watering Holes (home to conversations between peers), Caves (places for quiet reflection), and Life ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Natural-Born Cyborgs

    Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence

    by Andy Clark ...
    From Robocop to the Terminator to Eve 8, no image better captures our deepest fears about technology than the cyborg, the person who is both flesh and metal, brain and electronics. But philosopher and cognitive scientist Andy Clark sees it differently. Cyborgs, he writes, are not something to be feared--we already are cyborgs. In Natural-Born Cyborgs, Clark argues that what makes humans so ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • The Digital Turn

    How the Internet Transforms Our Existence

    by Wim Westera ...
    Awarded with the US National Indie Excellence Award 2014 in Social Media. This book is about digital media. Even more, the book is about us. It explains how the ever-growing flood of digital media affects our perceptions of the world, change our behaviors and eventually transform our very existence. In the era of Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Apple, being online is the standard. We spend many ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Robot Ethics 2.0

    From Autonomous Cars to Artificial Intelligence

    Edited by Patrick Lin, Keith Abney, Ryan Jenkins ...
    The robot population is rising on Earth and other planets. (Mars is inhabited entirely by robots.) As robots slip into more domains of human life--from the operating room to the bedroom--they take on our morally important tasks and decisions, as well as create new risks from psychological to physical. This makes it all the more urgent to study their ethical, legal, and policy impacts. To help the ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Sonic Warfare

    Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear

    by Steve Goodman ...
    Series series Technologies of Lived Abstraction
    An exploration of the production, transmission, and mutation of affective tonality—when sound helps produce a bad vibe.Sound can be deployed to produce discomfort, express a threat, or create an ambience of fear or dread—to produce a bad vibe. Sonic weapons of this sort include the “psychoacoustic correction” aimed at Panama strongman Manuel Noriega by the U.S. Army and at the Branch Davidians in ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Foundations of Robotics

    A Multidisciplinary Approach with Python and ROS

    Edited by Damith Herath, David St-Onge ...
    This open access book introduces key concepts in robotics in an easy to understand language using an engaging project-based approach. It covers contemporary topics in robotics, providing an accessible entry point to fundamentals in all the major domains. A section is dedicated to introducing programming concepts using Python, which has become a language of choice in robotics and AI. The book also ... Read more

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  • Cultural Analytics

    by Lev Manovich ...
    A book at the intersection of data science and media studies, presenting concepts and methods for computational analysis of cultural data.How can we see a billion images? What analytical methods can we bring to bear on the astonishing scale of digital culture--the billions of photographs shared on social media every day, the hundreds of millions of songs created by twenty million musicians on ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Digital Interaction and Machine Intelligence

    Proceedings of MIDI’2021 – 9th Machine Intelligence and Digital Interaction Conference, December 9-10, 2021, Warsaw, Poland

    Edited by Cezary Biele, Janusz Kacprzyk, Wiesław Kopeć, Jan W. Owsiński, Andrzej Romanowski, Marcin Sikorski ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access.This book presents the Proceedings of the 9th Machine Intelligence and Digital Interaction Conference. Significant progress in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) and its wider use in many interactive products are quickly transforming further areas of our life, which results in the emergence of various new ... Read more

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  • Communication in the Age of Virtual Reality

    Edited by Frank Biocca, Mark R. Levy ...
    Series series Routledge Communication Series
    This volume addresses virtual reality (VR) -- a tantalizing communication medium whose essence challenges our most deeply held notions of what communication is or can be. The editors have gathered an expert team of engineers, social scientists, and cultural theorists for the first extensive treatment of human communication in this exciting medium.The first part introduces the reader to VR's state ... Read more

    $102.99 USD