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  • Managing the Infosphere

    Governance, Technology, and Cultural Practice in Motion

    Managing the Infosphere examines the global world of communications as a mobile space that overlaps uneasily with the world of sovereign, territorial nation-states. Drawing on their expertise in geography, political science, international relations, and communication studies, the authors investigate specific policy problems encountered when international organizations, corporations, and individual ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

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  • Next: The Future Just Happened

    The Future Just Happened

    by Michael Lewis ...
    The New York Times bestseller. "His book is a wake-up call at a time when many believe the net was a flash in the pan."—BusinessWeekWith his knowing eye and wicked pen, Michael Lewis reveals how the Internet boom has encouraged changes in the way we live, work, and think. In the midst of one of the greatest status revolutions in the history of the world, the Internet has become a weapon in the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Information Architecture

    For the Web and Beyond

    Information architecture (IA) is far more challenging—and necessary—than ever. With the glut of information available today, anything your organization wants to share should be easy to find, navigate, and understand. But the experience you provide has to be familiar and coherent across multiple interaction channels, from the Web to smartphones, smartwatches, and beyond.To guide you through this ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • To Be a Machine

    Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death

    “This gonzo-journalistic exploration of the Silicon Valley techno-utopians’ pursuit of escaping mortality is a breezy romp full of colorful characters.” —New York Times Book Review (Editor's Choice)Transhumanism is a movement pushing the limits of our bodies—our capabilities, intelligence, and lifespans—in the hopes that, through technology, we can become something better than ourselves. It has ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Digital Outcasts

    Moving Technology Forward without Leaving People Behind

    by Kel Smith ...
    The blind person who tries to make an online purchase. The young girl who cannot speak due to a cognitive disability. The man confined to his home due to permanent injury. The single mother with a long-term illness who struggles to feed her family.With one in seven people worldwide currently living with a disability, the term "outcast" covers numerous scenarios. Digital outcasts rely on technology ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Thoughts on Interaction Design

    by Jon Kolko ...
    Thoughts on Interaction Design, Second Edition, contemplates and contributes to the theory of Interaction Design by exploring the semantic connections that live between technology and form that are brought to life when someone uses a product. It defines Interaction Design in a way that emphasizes the intellectual and cultural facets of the discipline. This edition explores how changes in the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Visualization Analysis and Design

    Series series AK Peters Visualization Series
    Learn How to Design Effective Visualization SystemsVisualization Analysis and Design provides a systematic, comprehensive framework for thinking about visualization in terms of principles and design choices. The book features a unified approach encompassing information visualization techniques for abstract data, scientific visualization techniques ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • Web Application Design Handbook

    Best Practices for Web-Based Software

    Series series Interactive Technologies
    The standards for usability and interaction design for Web sites and software are well known. While not everyone uses those standards, or uses them correctly, there is a large body of knowledge, best practice, and proven results in those fields, and a good education system for teaching professionals "how to." For the newer field of Web application design, however, designers are forced to reuse the ... Read more

    $69.29 USD

  • Self-Tracking

    Series series The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
    What happens when people turn their everyday experience into data: an introduction to the essential ideas and key challenges of self-tracking.People keep track. In the eighteenth century, Benjamin Franklin kept charts of time spent and virtues lived up to. Today, people use technology to self-track: hours slept, steps taken, calories consumed, medications administered. Ninety million wearable ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • User Interface Inspection Methods

    A User-Centered Design Method

    User Interface Inspection Methods succinctly covers five inspection methods: heuristic evaluation, perspective-based user interface inspection, cognitive walkthrough, pluralistic walkthrough, and formal usability inspections. Heuristic evaluation is perhaps the best-known inspection method, requiring a group of evaluators to review a product against a set of general principles. The perspective ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Rapid Contextual Design

    A How-to Guide to Key Techniques for User-Centered Design

    Series series Interactive Technologies
    Is it impossible to schedule enough time to include users in your design process? Is it difficult to incorporate elaborate user-centered design techniques into your own standard design practices? Do the resources needed seem overwhelming? This handbook introduces Rapid CD, a fast-paced, adaptive form of Contextual Design. Rapid CD is a hands-on guide for anyone who needs practical guidance on how ... Read more

    $51.29 USD

  • The Handbook of Multimodal-Multisensor Interfaces, Volume 1

    Foundations, User Modeling, and Common Modality Combinations

    Series series ACM Books
    The Handbook of Multimodal-Multisensor Interfaces provides the first authoritative resource on what has become the dominant paradigm for new computer interfaces— user input involving new media (speech, multi-touch, gestures, writing) embedded in multimodal-multisensor interfaces. These interfaces support smart phones, wearables, in-vehicle and robotic applications, and many other areas that are ... Read more

    $71.99 USD