Download or read book Human Computer Interaction Interaction Design and Usability written by Julie A. Jacko and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-08-28 with total page 1255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the first of a four-volume set that constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2007, held in Beijing, China, jointly with eight other thematically similar conferences. It covers interaction design: theoretical issues, methods, techniques and practice; usability and evaluation methods and tools; understanding users and contexts of use; and models and patterns in HCI.

Download or read book Communication Technology and Social Change written by Carolyn A. Lin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communication Technology and Social Change is a distinctive collection that provides current theoretical, empirical, and legal analyses for a broader understanding of the dynamic influences of communication technology on social change. With a distinguished panel of contributors, the volume presents a systematic discussion of the role communication technology plays in shaping social, political, and economic influences in society within specific domains and settings. Its integrated focus expands and complements the scope of existing literature on this subject. Each chapter is organized around a specific structure, covering: *Background—offering an introduction of relevant communication technology that outlines its technical capabilities, diffusion, and uses; *Theory—featuring a discussion of relevant theories used to study the social impacts of the communication technology in question; *Empirical Findings—providing an analysis of recent academic and relevant practical work that explains the impact of the communication technology on social change; and *Social Change Implications—proposing a summary of the real world implications for social change that stems from synthesizing the relevant theories and empirical findings presented throughout the book. Communication Technology and Social Change will serve scholars, researchers, upper-division undergraduate students, and graduate students examining the relationship between communication and technology and its implications for society.

Download or read book Designing for Networked Communications Strategies and Development written by Heilesen, Simon and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2007-01-31 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designing for Networked Communications: Strategies and Development explains how to plan, use, and understand the products and the dynamic social processes and tasks some of the most vital innovations in the knowledge society depend upon? social as well as technological. Focusing on various forms of design, implementation and integration of computer mediated communication, this book bridges the academic fields of computer science and communication studies. Designing for Networked Communications: Strategies and Development uses an interdisciplinary approach, and presents results from recent and important research in a variety of forms for networked communications. A constructive and critical view of the interplay between the new electronic and the more conventional modes of communication are utilized, while studies of organizational work practices demonstrate that the use of new technologies and media is best understood and integrated into work practices. In this process of merging, both are remodelled and rearranged while being adapted to the practices and activities for which they were designed.

Download or read book Designing for Change in Networked Learning Environments written by B. Wasson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is of interest to researchers and students, designers, educators, and industrial trainers in such disciplines as education, cognitive, social and educational psychology, didactics, computer science, linguistics and semiotics, speech communication, anthropology, sociology and design. It includes discussions on knowledge building, designing and analyzing group interaction, design of collaborative multimedia and 3D environments, computational modeling and analysis, and software agents.

Download or read book Collaborative Design written by Stephen A.R. Scrivener and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design occurs in a rich social context where the effectiveness and efficiency of social interaction and collective performance are key to successful outcomes. Increasingly, design is being explored and developed as a collective, collaborative, participatory, and even community process. The heightened recognition of designing as a social process has stimulated interest in collaborative design. This book contains the proceedings of the international conference "CoDesigning 2000" held in Coventry, England, September 2000. During this meeting exponents from a wide range of design domains came together to present and discuss perspectives on and new knowledge and understanding of collaborative design, and the evidence for enhanced design performance through collaboration. Within this volume different motivations for, conceptions of, and findings about collaborative design are addressed in 50 contributions by different research groups. Structured into 6 sections according to the main fields of interest, it provides a survey of the state of scientifically based knowledge and trends emerging from collaborative design research and their implications for a wide range of domains.

Download or read book Learning Environment and Design written by Will W.K. Ma and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-07 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This special edition of the Educational Communications and Technology Yearbook Series bears a title of “Learning Environment and Design: Current and Future Impact”. It provides a timely forum to share theoretical and practical insights in both the local and international contexts in response to the fact that new media and technologies have infiltrated and shaped the learning environments from mere physical spaces into multifaceted possibilities, impacting the ways individuals teach and learn. Designs of learning environments to harness technologies appropriately to engage learners better, as well as the roles of learners and educators play in this changing learning environment, are examples of important global issues in the discourse of the contemporary educational developments. Having gathered a diverse collection of research papers written by scholars and practitioners in the fields of education, communication and humanities across Asia, Australasia, Europe and the United States, this book gives readers a cross-cultural background on the developments of technological designs and educational practices, investigating areas in redefining of quality education; online learning and blended learning; new media in education; gamification, AI, and innovative learning technologies. Aimed to catalyze knowledge exchanges and provide fresh views on interdisciplinary research, the book sheds light on how emerging technologies can be adapted in the fields of education and communication, so as to facilitate the current and future designs of learning environments to improve learners’ performances.

Download or read book Multicultural Instructional Design Concepts Methodologies Tools and Applications written by Management Association, Information Resources and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2019-07-05 with total page 1688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the world becomes more globalized, student populations in educational settings will continue to grow in diversity. To ensure students develop the cultural competence to adapt to new environments, educational institutions must develop curriculum, policies, and programs to aid in the progression of cultural acceptance and understanding. Multicultural Instructional Design: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications is a vital reference source for the latest research findings on inclusive curriculum development for multicultural learners. It also examines the interaction between culture and learning in academic environments and the efforts to mediate it through various educational venues. Highlighting a range of topics such as intercultural communication, student diversity, and language skills, this multi-volume book is ideally designed for educators, professionals, school administrators, researchers, and practitioners in the field of education.

Download or read book Teaching in the Knowledge Society New Skills and Instruments for Teachers written by Cartelli, Antonio and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2006-01-31 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book investigates changes induced by information and communications technology in today's education system"--Provided by publisher.

Download or read book Understanding Virtual Design Studios written by Mary L. Maher and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the issues involved in setting up and running a virtual design studio. It presents an interdisciplinary framework for organizing, running, and improving virtual design studios. Technological issues are presented in a practical context, showing how to realize each aspect of the studio. The authors also assess potential benefits, such as improved creativity and collaboration, and other areas in which our understanding needs to be furthered. Relevant software will be available on the authors website.

Download or read book Technology Design and Process Innovation in the Built Environment written by Peter Newton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-02-09 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buildings and infrastructure represent principal assets of any national economy as well as prime sources of environmental degradation. Making them more sustainable represents a key challenge for the construction, planning and design industries and governments at all levels; and the rapid urbanisation of the 21st century has turned this into a global challenge. This book embodies the results of a major research programme by members of the Australia Co-operative Research Centre for Construction Innovation and its global partners, presented for an international audience of construction researchers, senior professionals and advanced students. It covers four themes, applied to regeneration as well as to new build, and within the overall theme of Innovation: Sustainable Materials and Manufactures, focusing on building material products, their manufacture and assembly – and the reduction of their ecological ‘fingerprints’, the extension of their service lives, and their re-use and recyclability. It also explores the prospects for applying the principles of the assembly line. Virtual Design, Construction and Management, viewed as increasing sustainable development through automation, enhanced collaboration (such as virtual design teams), real time BL performance assessment during design, simulation of the construction process, life-cycle management of project information (zero information loss) risk minimisation, and increased potential for innovation and value adding. Integrating Design, Construction and Facility Management over the Project Life Cycle, by converging ICT, design science engineering and sustainability science. Integration across spatial scales, enabling building–infrastructure synergies (such as water and energy efficiency). Convergences between IT and design and operational processes are also viewed as a key platform increased sustainability.

Download or read book Intelligent Interactive Systems in Knowledge Based Environments written by Maria Virvou and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-06-24 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary aim of this up-to-date research book is to report a sample of the most recent advances in the field of intelligent interactive systems in knowledge-based environments. It contains recent research and case studies of intelligent interactive systems. This book will prove useful to researchers, professors, research students and practitioners as it reports novel research work on innovative topics in the area of intelligent interactive systems.

Download or read book Intelligent Tutoring Systems in E Learning Environments Design Implementation and Evaluation written by Stankov, Slavomir and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2010-07-31 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book addresses intelligent tutoring system (ITS) environments from the standpoint of information and communication technology (ICT) and the recent accomplishments within both the e-learning paradigm and e-learning systems"--Provided by publisher.

Download or read book The Design of Digital Learning Environments written by Martha F. Cleveland-Innes and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-01-31 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Design of Digital Learning Environments provides comprehensive guidelines for creating and delivering high-quality online and blended learning experiences in higher education. With increasing numbers of students engaged in partially or fully digital education, graduate students preparing for design, development, or faculty roles need fresh, practical applications of cutting-edge research and theory. This textbook uses the Community of Inquiry framework, an influential and invaluable pedagogical model focused on deep learning, to aid educators in forging meaningful, collaborative connections with students engaged in digitally supported multi-modal learning in colleges and universities, MOOCs, and lifelong learning initiatives. Across five parts, the book covers the basic structure, concepts, terminology, and history of the Community of Inquiry; principles for designing and delivering digital courses; design for specific course conditions; applications of learning activities guided by the framework; and current limitations and directions for further research.

Download or read book Barriers and Biases in Computer Mediated Knowledge Communication written by Rainer Bromme and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-03-30 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the barriers in computer-mediated communication for cooperative learning and work? Based on empirical research, the chapters of this book offer different perspectives on the nature and causes of such barriers for students and researchers in the field.

Download or read book Collaborative Design in Virtual Environments written by Xiangyu Wang and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collaborative virtual environments (CVEs) are multi-user virtual realities which actively support communication and co-operation. This book offers a comprehensive reference volume to the state-of-the-art in the area of design studies in CVEs. It is an excellent mix of contributions from over 25 leading researcher/experts in multiple disciplines from academia and industry, providing up-to-date insight into the current research topics in this field as well as the latest technological advancements and the best working examples. Many of these results and ideas are also applicable to other areas such as CVE for design education. Overall, this book serves as an excellent reference for postgraduate students, researchers and practitioners who need a comprehensive approach to study the design behaviours in CVEs. It is also a useful and informative source of materials for those interested in learning more on using/developing CVEs to support design and design collaboration.

Download or read book Integrating Usability Engineering for Designing the Web Experience Methodologies and Principles written by Spiliotopoulos, Tasos and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2010-01-31 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book provides a link between theoretical research and web engineering, presenting a more holistic approach to web usability"--Provided by publisher.

Download or read book Future Interaction Design II written by Pertti Saariluoma and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perspectives and techniques used in human-computer interaction design, practice and research are broadening. This book looks at emerging approaches which are likely to contribute to the discipline in near future. The underlying idea is that human character rather than technology should determine the nature of interaction. The concept of "interaction design" covers this range of concerns relevant to enabling quality design. Each chapter emphasizes alternative perspectives on interaction and new concepts to help researchers and practitioners relate to alternative design approaches and opportunities. This second volume provides a wider perspective, from both a scientific and geographic outlook. New topics, such as psychological design processes, gerotechnology, modelling, e-learning and subconscious experiences are discussed from a team of international authors. This book will be of considerable value to those seeking innovative perspectives upon designing and ensuring effective interaction between humans and technology.