AI Knowledge Transfer from the University to Society
AI Knowledge Transfer from the University to Society: Applications in High-Impact Sectors brings together examples from the "Innovative Ecosystem with Artificial Intelligence for Andalusia 2025" project at the University of Seville, a series of sub-projects composed of research groups and different institutions or companies that explore the use of Artificial Intelligence in a variety of high-impact sectors to lead innovation and assist in decision-making. Key Features Includes chapters on heal...
Lernen Sie mit diesem Buch die Grundlagen der Virtuellen und Augmentierten Realitat kennen Dieses Buch uber die Virtuelle und Augmentierte Realitat ist sowohl fur Praktiker und Interessierte im Selbststudium als auch fur Studierende geeignet. Letztere koennen es hervorragend als Begleitlekture fur entsprechende Lehrveranstaltungen, zum Beispiel in der Informatik nutzen. Die zweite Auflage wurde umfassend erneuert und erweitert. Mit ihrer Hilfe kann der Leser sein Verstandnis fur das Themengebiet...
Multimodal Signal Processing
Multimodal signal processing is an important research and development field that processes signals and combines information from a variety of modalities - speech, vision, language, text - which significantly enhance the understanding, modelling, and performance of human-computer interaction devices or systems enhancing human-human communication. The overarching theme of this book is the application of signal processing and statistical machine learning techniques to problems arising in this multi...
Building Chatbots with Microsoft Bot Framework and Node.Js
by G Akshay Kulkarni
Community Informatics Design Applied to Digital Social Systems (Translational Systems Sciences, #12)
by Pierre-Leonard Harvey
This book introduces a Digital Social System Praxis Framework (DSSPF) integrating Computational Media, Evolutionary Systems Thinking and Design Thinking approaches to E-transformation practice, also called Community Informatics Design (CID). The DSSPF framework is intended to create communication spaces dedicated to knowledge production and sharing for social and organizational change. It allows social systems researchers and practitioners to recognize their synergistic roles in the praxis proce...
AI for Healthcare Robotics (AI for Everything)
by Eduard Fosch-Villaronga and Hadassah Drukarch
Provides for the first time a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of the different types of healthcare robots and the advances that AI brings them.Provides, in an easy and accessible way, essential basic information about the autonomy levels of surgery robots, which is novel. As such, could be very valuable to a broad community that ranges from legal scholars, ethicists, developers, policymakers, students, or non-specialists curious about the topic.
The Game Maker's Companion (Technology in Action)
by Jacob Habgood, Nana Nielsen, and Kevin Crossley
The Game Maker's Companion is the long-awaited sequel to The Game Maker's Apprentice. This book picks up where the last book left off, advancing your game development journey with some seriously impressive gaming projects. This time you'll learn how to make professional-quality platform games with solid collision detection and slick control mechanisms and you'll get acquainted with a long-lost icon of platform gaming history on the way. You'll go on to discover techniques to add depth and believ...
Synergy in Multi-Channel Online Advertising (Berichte aus der Betriebswirtschaft)
by Sebastian Hild
Handbook of Research on Multi-Agent Systems: Semantics and Dynamics of Organizational Models
Cybersecurity for Beginners (How to Get a Job in Cybersecurity, #2) (2 Manuscripts, #3)
by Attila Kovacs
User experience (UX) strategy requires a careful blend of business strategy and UX design, but until now, there hasn't been an easy-to-apply framework for executing it. This hands-on guide introduces lightweight strategy tools and techniques to help you and your team craft innovative multi-device products that people like to use. Whether you're an entrepreneur, UX/UI designer, product manager, or part of an intrapreneurial team, this book teaches simple-to-advanced strategies that you can use in...
Fostering 21st Century Digital Literacy and Technical Competency
The 21st century has seen an expansion in digital technology and the ways in which it affects everyday life. These technologies have become essential in the growth of social communication and mass media. Fostering 21st Century Digital Literacy and Technical Competency offers the latest in research on the technological advances on computer proficiency in the educational system and society. This collection of research brings together theories and experiences in order to create a common framework...
Grundlagen der fraktalen Geometrie mit iterierten Funktionensystemen (IFS)
by Adrian Jan Jablonski
A visionary and optimistic thinker examines the tension between privacy and publicness that is transforming how we form communities, create identities, do business, and live our lives. Thanks to the internet, we now live-more and more-in public. More than 750 million people (and half of all Americans) use Facebook, where we share a billion times a day. The collective voice of Twitter echoes instantly 100 million times daily, from Tahrir Square to the Mall of America, on subjects that range from...
Der Begriff der Qualitat und der Gebrauchstauglichkeit hat eine herausragende Bedeutung in der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnik sowie der Informatik erlangt. In allen Phasen der Planung, Konzeption, Implementierung und Optimierung technischer Systeme und Dienste mussen Qualitatsaspekte berucksichtigt werden, damit die Benutzer eine optimale Qualitat und Gebrauchstauglichkeit erfahren koennen. In diesem Buch wird die Qualitat und Gebrauchstauglichkeit kommunikationstechnischer Systeme grun...
How Artifacts Afford (Design Thinking, Design Theory)
by Jenny L. Davis
Technological affordances mediate between the features of a technology and the outcomes of engagement with that technology. The concept of affordances, which migrated from psychology to design with Donald Norman's influential 1988 book, The Design of Everyday Things, offers a useful analytical tool in technology studies-but, Jenny Davis argues in How Artifacts Afford, it is in need of a conceptual update. Davis provides just such an update, introducing the mechanisms and conditions framework, wh...
Driving With Music: Cognitive-Behavioural Implications (Human Factors in Road and Rail Transport)
by Warren Brodsky
This book, the first full-length text on the subject, explores the everyday use of music listening while driving a car. It presents the relationship between cars and music in an effort to understand how music behaviour in the car can either enhance driver safety or place the driver at increased risk of accidents. A great deal of work has been done to investigate and reduce driver distraction and inattention, but this book is the first to focus on in-cabin aural backgrounds of music as a contribu...
Beyond the Screen Human-Computer Interaction in the Digital Age
by A Scholtens
Parallel and Distributed Computing (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, #3320)
by Kimmeow Liew
The 2004 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, - plications and Technologies (PDCAT 2004) was the ?fth annual conference, and was held at the Marina Mandarin Hotel, Singapore on December 8-10, 2004. Since the inaugural PDCAT held in Hong Kong in 2000, the conference has - come a major forum for scientists, engineers, and practitioners throughout the world to present the latest research, results, ideas, developments, techniques, and applications in all areas of parallel...
Meaningful Futures with Robots (Chapman & Hall/CRC Artificial Intelligence and Robotics)
Soon, robots will leave the factories and make their way into living rooms, supermarkets, and care facilities. They will cooperate with humans in everyday life, taking on more than just practical tasks. How should they communicate with us? Do they need eyes, a screen, or arms? Should they resemble humans? Or may they enrich social situations precisely because they act so differently from humans? Meaningful Futures with Robots: Designing a New Coexistence provides insight into the opportunities...