Sciences Sociales / Futurologie

Activity Theory in HCI: Fundamentals and Reflections

de Victor Kaptelinin & Bonnie Nardi

Activity theory -- a conceptual framework originally developed by Aleksei Leontiev -- has its roots in the socio-cultural tradition in Russian psychology. The foundational concept of the theory is human activity,...

The Handbook of Human-Machine Interaction: A Human-Centered Design Approach

de Guy A. Boy

The Handbook of Human-Machine Interaction features 20 original chapters and a conclusion focusing on human-machine interaction (HMI) from analysis, design and evaluation perspectives. It offers a comprehensive...

Macrocognition Metrics and Scenarios: Design and Evaluation for Real-World Teams

de Emily S. Patterson & Janet E. Miller

Macrocognition Metrics and Scenarios: Design and Evaluation for Real-World Teams translates advances in macrocognition into a format that will support immediate use by the software testing and evaluation community...

Working Through Synthetic Worlds

de C.A.P. Smith & Kenneth W. Kisiel

Working Through Synthetic Worlds explores different tasks that might benefit by being performed within a synthetic world. The term 'synthetic world' refers to a subset of virtual environments, having a large...

Command and Control: The Sociotechnical Perspective

de Guy Walker & Neville A. Stanton

How do you achieve a jointly optimised blend of socio and technical and create the kind of agility and self-synchronisation that modern forms of command and control promise? The answer put forward here is to...

Distributed Situation Awareness: Theory, Measurement and Application to Teamwork

de Paul M. Salmon & Neville A. Stanton

This book presents an exhaustive review and evaluation of contemporary theoretical perspectives on SA and of a range of SA measurement approaches. A novel theory of DSA in complex sociotechnical systems is presented,...

Digitising Command and Control: A Human Factors and Ergonomics Analysis of Mission Planning and Battlespace Management

de Neville A. Stanton & Daniel P. Jenkins

This book presents a human factors and ergonomics evaluation of a digital Mission Planning and Battle-space Management (MP/BM) system. It emphasises the activities at the Brigade (Bde) and the Battle Group (BG)...

Internet and Surveillance: The Challenges of Web 2.0 and Social Media

de Christian Fuchs, Kees Boersma & Anders Albrechtslund

The Internet has been transformed in the past years from a system primarily oriented on information provision into a medium for communication and community-building. The notion of "Web 2.0", social software,...

Messy Wars

de Aki Huhtinen & Jari Rantapelkonen

War is a serious unsolved question concerning many: the military, industry, the media, and even the entertainment business – but also ordinary people. Often war is, for the military, about fighting against...

The UX Book: Process and Guidelines for Ensuring a Quality User Experience

de Rex Hartson & Pardha S. Pyla

The UX Book, winner of a 2013 Most Promising New Textbook Award from the Text and Academic Authors Association, is a comprehensive textbook on designing interaction to ensure a quality user experience. Combining...

Content Strategy at Work: Real-world Stories to Strengthen Every Interactive Project

de Margot Bloomstein

Content is king... and the new kingmaker... and your message needs to align with your model and metrics and other mumbo jumbo, right? Whether you're slogging through theory or buzzwords, there's no denying content...

The Shift Age

de David Houle

The Shift Age is about humanity's new ere. As the Information Age gives way to the Shift Age, we are entering a time of

transformation and change that offers both great risk and incredible opportunity. Originally...

Google AdWords: Managing Your Advertising Program

de Anastasia Holdren

Do people really click the handful of text ads that accompany Google search results? Absolutely. Growth of Google AdWords continues to increase, as does online advertising in the United States. This book shows...

Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion

de Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen & Harry Lewis

This is the eBook version of the printed book.

Every day, billions of photographs, news stories, songs, X-rays, TV shows, phone calls, and emails are being scattered around the world as sequences of zeroes and...

Information Technology Risk Management in Enterprise Environments: A Review of Industry Practices and a Practical Guide to Risk Management Teams

de Jake Kouns & Daniel Minoli

• Discusses all types of corporate risks and practical means of defending against them.
• Security is currently identified as a critical area of Information Technology management by a majority of government, commercial,...

Risk Modeling, Assessment, and Management

de Yacov Y. Haimes

Examines timely multidisciplinary applications, problems, and case histories in risk modeling, assessment, and management

Risk Modeling, Assessment, and Management, Third Edition describes the state of the art...

Content Nation: Surviving and Thriving as Social Media Changes Our Work, Our Lives, and Our Future

de John Blossom

Find out how social media communications is changing the content provider industry in Content Nation: Surviving and Thriving as Social Media Technology Changes Our Lives and Our Future.  Developed through a...

Programming Social Applications: Building Viral Experiences with OpenSocial, OAuth, OpenID, and Distributed Web Frameworks

de Jonathan LeBlanc

Social networking has made one thing clear: websites and applications need to provide users with experiences tailored to their preferences. This in-depth guide shows you how to build rich social frameworks,...

Preparing for the Twenty-First Century

de Paul Kennedy

Kennedy's groundbreaking book The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers helped to reorder the current priorities of the United States. Now, he synthesizes extensive research on fields ranging from demography to...

jQuery Mobile First Look

de Giulio Bai

The jQuery Mobile First Look is a perfect reference to keep on your desk for finding out the capabilities of the jQuery Mobile framework and how you can put it to good use. This book will show you how to enjoy...