Download or read book Touch Screen Theory written by Michele White and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technology companies claim to connect people through touchscreens, but by conflating physical contact with emotional sentiments, they displace the constructed aspects of devices and women and other oppressed individuals’ critiques of how such technologies function. Technology companies and device designers correlate touchscreens and online sites with physical contact and emotional sentiments, promising unmediated experiences in which the screen falls away in favor of visceral materiality and connections. While touchscreens are key elements of most people’s everyday lives, critical frameworks for understanding the embodied experiences of using them are wanting. In Touch Screen Theory, Michele White focuses on the relation between physically touching and emotionally feeling to recenter the bodies and identities that are empowered, produced, and displaced by these digital technologies and settings. Drawing on detailed cases and humanities methods, White shows how and why gender, race, and sexuality should be further analyzed in relation to touchscreen use and design. White delves into such details as how women are informed that their bodies and fingernails are not a fit for iPhones, how cellphone surfaces are correlated with skin and understood as erotic, the ways social networks use heart buttons and icons to seem to physically and emotionally connect with individuals, how online references to feminine and queer feelings are resisted by many men, and how women producers of autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) videos use tactile strategies and touch screens to emotionally bond with viewers. Proposing critical methods for studying touchscreens and digital engagement, Touch Screen Theory expands a variety of research areas, including digital and internet cultures, hardware, interfaces, media and screens, and popular culture.
Download or read book Touchscreen Archaeology written by Wanda Strauven and published by Meson Press Eg. This book was released on 2021-05-17 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The touchscreen belongs to a century-long history of hands-on media practices and touchable art objects. This media-archaeological excavation examines the nature of our sensual involvement with media and invites the reader to think about the touchscreen beyond its technological implications. In six chapters, the book questions and historicizes both aspects of the touchscreen, considering "touch" as a media practice and "screen" as a touchable object.
Download or read book Touch Screen Tablets Touching Children s Lives written by Joanne Tarasuik and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Touch screen tablets have greatly expanded the technology accessible to preschoolers, toddlers and even infants, given that they do not require the fine motor skills required for using traditional computers. Many parents and educators wish to make evidence-based decisions regarding young children’s technology use, yet technological advancements continue to occur faster than researchers can keep up with. Accordingly, despite touch screen tablets entering society more than 5 years ago, we are in the infancy of research concerning interactive media and children. The topic has gained traction in the past couple of years. For example theoretical papers have discussed how interactive media activities differ from physical toys and passive media (Christakis, 2014), and how educational apps development should utilise the four “pillars” of learning (Hirsh-Pasek et al., 2015). Yet there has been little experimental research published on young children and touch screen use.
Download or read book HCI International 2013 Posters Extended Abstracts written by Constantine Stephanidis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first of a two-volume set (CCIS 373 and CCIS 374) that constitutes the extended abstracts of the posters presented during the 15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2013, held in Las Vegas, USA, in July 2013, jointly with 12 other thematically similar conferences. The total of 1666 papers and 303 posters presented at the HCII 2013 conferences was carefully reviewed and selected from 5210 submissions. These papers address the latest research and development efforts and highlight the human aspects of design and use of computing systems. The papers accepted for presentation thoroughly cover the entire field of human-computer interaction, addressing major advances in knowledge and effective use of computers in a variety of application areas. The extended abstracts were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this two-volume set. The papers included in this volume are organized in the following topical sections: HCI design approaches, methods and techniques; usability methods, techniques and studies; universal access and eInclusion; multimodal and ambient interaction; cognitive and psychological aspects of interaction; perception and interaction; ergonomic and human modelling issues; capturing gaze, biosignals and brainwaves; development environments; product design, marketing and advertisement.
Download or read book How Does a Touch Screen Work written by Leon Gray and published by The Rosen Publishing Group. This book was released on 2013-12-30 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the history and evolution of touch screens and describes how they work, where they are used today, and possible future developments in the field.
Download or read book Handbook of Visual Display Technology written by Janglin Chen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-01-23 with total page 2700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook offers a comprehensive description of the science, technology, economic and human interface factors associated with the displays industry. With expert contributions from over 150 international display professionals and academic researchers, it covers all classes of display device and discusses established principles, emergent technologies, and particular areas of application.
Download or read book Being and the Screen written by Stephane Vial and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How digital technology is profoundly renewing our sense of what is real and how we perceive. Digital technologies are not just tools; they are structures of perception. They determine the way in which the world appears to us. For nearly half a century, technology has provided us with perceptions coming from an unknown world. The digital beings that emerge from our screens and our interfaces disrupt the notion of what we experience as real, thereby leading us to relearn how to perceive. In Being and the Screen, Stéphane Vial provides a philosophical analysis of technology in general, and of digital technologies in particular, that relies on the observation of experience (phenomenology) and the history of technology (epistemology). He explains that technology is no longer separate from ourselves—if it ever was. Rather, we are as much a part of the machine as the machine is part of us. Vial argues that the so-called difference between the real and the virtual does not exist and never has. We are living in a hybrid environment—which is both digital and nondigital, online and offline. With this book, Vial endows philosophical meaning to what we experience daily in our digital age. In A Short Treatise on Design, Vial offers a concise introduction to the discipline of design—not a history book, but a book built of philosophical problems, developing a theory of the effect of design. This book is published with the support of the University of Nîmes, France.
Download or read book Lowe s Transport Manager s and Operator s Handbook 2014 written by David Lowe and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2014-03-03 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This best-seller for busy fleet operators, now in its 44th edition, provides essential information and advice on transport legislation, technical standards and goods vehicle operations. Lowe's Transport Manager's and Operator's Handbook is a truly comprehensive guide to the legal, operational and environmental factors that are of the utmost importance in today's road transport industry - including professional competence, working times and driving hours rules, speed cameras and penalties, the international road haulage market, and drugs testing for drivers. The Handbook is the essential reference source for any transport manager, fleet operator, owner-driver haulier or student with an involvement in the industry.
Download or read book Lowe s Transport Manager s and Operator s Handbook 2019 written by David Lowe and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2019-02-03 with total page 801 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the biggest challenges facing you and the road transport industry is the constant introduction of new legislation. In order to protect your business and avoid penalties, equip yourself with the latest knowledge of updates to regulations with Lowe's Transport Manager's and Operator's Handbook 2019. Now in its 49th edition and endorsed by the Chartered Institute of Transport and Logistics, Lowe's Transport Manager's and Operator's Handbook 2019 is the most comprehensive guide available to the operational rules and guidelines governing the UK, Ireland and the EU's road transport operators. This best-selling, exclusive handbook is an essential reference and explores in detail the most pressing issues in today's road transport industry. It includes details on professional competence, rules on working times and driving hours, licensing and penalties, insurance, road traffic law, maintenance advice and the international road haulage market. This manual includes guidance for drivers in the Republic of Ireland and mainland Europe, along with the rules and penalties governing these regions. Lowe's Transport Manager's and Operator's Handbook 2019 is the essential reference source for any transport manager, fleet operator, owner-driver haulier or student involved in the transport industry. This new edition has been thoroughly updated and revised to reflect the latest developments, covering changes to emission standards and electric road tolling in Europe, HM Customs, lists of exempted vehicles, company car schemes, developments within the Scottish and Welsh governments and vehicular enforcement changes across Europe.
Download or read book Machinery Materials Science and Engineering Applications written by Fei Lei and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-03-31 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This conference proceeding contains papers presented at the 6th International Conference on Machinery, Materials Science and Engineering Applications (MMSE 2016), held 28-30 October, 2016 in Wuhan, China. The conference proceeding contributions cover a large number of topics, both theoretical and applied, including Material science, Electrical Engineering and Automation Control, Electronic Engineering, Applied Mechanics, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Science and Technology, Computer Science and Information technology and other related engineering topics. MMSE provides a perfect platform for scientists and engineering researchers to exchange ideas, build cooperative relationships and discuss the latest scientific achievements. MMSE will be of interest for academics and professionals working in a wide range of industrial, governmental and academic sectors, including Material Science, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Information Technology and Telecommunications, Civil Engineering, Energy Production, Manufacturing, Mechanical Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, Transportation and Aerospace Science and Technology.
Download or read book Environment Behavior Studies for Healthcare Design written by Suining Ding and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environment-Behavior Studies for Healthcare Design explains how environment-behavior (EB) studies can contribute to healthcare design research and explores how evidence-based theories can be applied and integrated into the healthcare design practice. Drawing on EB theories and the latest research in environment-behavior studies, this book shows how the healthcare environment can positively impact patients' and caregivers' well-being and healthcare organization's efficiency by modifying environmental attributes, such as space configuration, color, lighting, signage, acoustics, and artwork. It addresses a range of healthcare facilities including children's hospitals, long-term care, acute care and outpatient care facilities, and uses a range of evidence-based design research methods, such as interviews, focus groups, observations, surveys and space syntax. The author also explains how research evidence and evidence-based design can be integrated into healthcare design more cohesively in a redefined design process. This book provides a solid conceptual structure that informs a clear map for understanding the EB theories and their applications in healthcare design. This research guide for healthcare design helps students, academics, designers and architects reconsider how to create environments that support patients’ healing and well-being whilst considering efficiency and safety.
Download or read book Advances in Visual Informatics written by Halimah Badioze Zaman and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Advances in Visual Informatics, IVIC 2019, held in Bangi, Malaysia, in November 2019. The 65 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 130 submissions. The papers are organized into the following topics: Visualization and Digital Innovation for Society 5.0; Engineering and Digital Innovation for Society 5.0; Cyber Security and Digital Innovation for Society 5.0; and Social Informatics and Application for Society 5.0.
Download or read book Contemporary Literature and the Body written by Alice Hall and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-21 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Literature and the Body: a Critical Introduction introduces readers to key theorists and shifting critical trends in the field from 1940 to the present and examines these in relation to close readings of texts from a range of different genres. It argues that scholarship on literature and the body is of fundamental importance to discussions about gender, race, sexuality, class, age, narrative form, and processes of reading and writing. Contemporary Literature and the Body: a Critical Introduction understands 'literature' in a broad sense: as fundamentally connected to changes in technology, culture and the environment. Offering a lively and accessible synthesis, it explores how literary writing of present and recent decades is concerned with the challenges of conveying physical experiences, experimenting with sensory perception, and thinking through the relationship between embodiment, identity and knowledge.
Download or read book Touch written by Laura U. Marks and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Touch, Laura U. Marks develops a critical approach more tactile than visual, an intensely physical and sensuous engagement with works of media art that enriches our understanding and experience of these works and of art itself. These critical, theoretical, and personal essays serve as a guide to developments in nonmainstream media art during the past ten years -- sexual representation debates, documentary ethics, the shift from analog to digital media, a new social obsession with smell. Marks takes up well-known artists like experimental filmmaker Ken Jacobs and mysterious animators the Brothers Quay, and introduces groundbreaking, lesser-known film, video, and digital artists. From this emerges a materialist theory -- an embodied, erotic relationship to art and to the world. Marks's approach leads to an appreciation of the works' mortal bodies: film's volatile emulsion, video's fragile magnetic base, crash-prone Net art; it also offers a productive alternative to the popular understanding of digital media as "virtual" and immaterial. Weaving a continuous fabric from philosophy, fiction, science, dreams, and intimate experience, Touch opens a new world of art media to readers.
Download or read book Lowe s Transport Manager s and Operator s Handbook 2020 written by David Lowe and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2020-02-03 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ensure the safe and legal operation of your fleet by staying up to date with the latest rules governing road transport operators in the UK, Ireland and Europe. Now in its 50th edition, Lowe's Transport Manager's and Operator's Handbook 2020 is the most comprehensive guide available to the operational rules and guidelines governing the UK, Ireland and the EU's road transport operators. This best-selling handbook is an essential reference and explores in detail the most pressing issues in today's road transport industry. It includes details on professional competence, insurance, international transport of animals, dangerous and perishable goods, international haulage and customs procedures. This manual includes guidance for drivers in the Republic of Ireland and mainland Europe, along with the rules and penalties governing these regions. Lowe's Transport Manager's and Operator's Handbook 2020 is the essential reference source for any transport manager, fleet operator, owner-driver haulier or student involved in the transport industry. This new edition has been thoroughly updated and revised to reflect the latest developments, covering changes to EU drivers' hours, HM Customs, tachograph rules for AETR rules and intermodal freight material.
Download or read book Lowe s Transport Manager s and Operator s Handbook 2018 written by David Lowe and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its 48th edition, Lowe's Transport Manager's and Operator's Handbook 2018 is the most comprehensive guide available to the operational rules and guidelines governing the UK, Ireland and the EU's road transport operators. This best-selling, exclusive handbook is an essential reference and explores in detail the most pressing issues in today's road transport industry. It includes details on professional competence, rules on working times and driving hours, licensing and penalties, insurance, road traffic law, maintenance advice and the international road haulage market. This manual includes guidance for drivers in the Republic of Ireland and mainland Europe, along with the rules and penalties governing these regions. Lowe's Transport Manager's and Operator's Handbook 2018 is the essential reference source for any transport manager, fleet operator, owner-driver haulier or student with an involvement in the industry. This new edition has been thoroughly updated and revised to reflect the latest developments in legislation and regulations, including information on driving test changes, the new Vehicle Operator Licensing System (VOL), new penalties for mobile phone use, vehicle maintenance plans, and the introduction of the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) and T-Charge in central London.
Download or read book Lowe s Transport Manager s and Operator s Handbook 2016 written by David Lowe and published by Kogan Page Publishers. This book was released on 2016-02-03 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its 46th edition, Lowe's Transport Manager's and Operator's Handbook is the most comprehensive guide available to the operational rules and guidelines governing the UK's road transport operators. This best-selling handbook provides an essential reference to factors that are of utmost importance in today's road transport industry. It includes details on professional competence, working times and driving hours rules, speed cameras and penalties, the international road haulage market, and drugs testing for drivers. Lowe's Transport Manager's and Operator's Handbook is the essential reference source for any transport manager, fleet operator, owner-driver haulier or student with an involvement in the industry. The 46th edition has been thoroughly updated and revised to reflect the latest developments in the industry.
