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Book Synopsis Informing Design by : Joan I. Dickinson
Download or read book Informing Design written by Joan I. Dickinson and published by Fairchild Books. This book was released on 2009-02-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Informing Design suggests a pedagogy in which design decision making is informed by more than speculative hunches, preferences, and intuition. In this collection of contributed chapters, leaders in both design practice and education share their expertise in such specialty areas as corporate, retail, and learning environments; healthcare; and hospitality. Introductory chapters teach students to distinguish among information gathering, programming, and research; apply the findings of others; and conduct their own investigations. Other chapters illustrate how informed design decisions were applied to various building types.
Book Synopsis Material Design by : Thomas Schröpfer
Download or read book Material Design written by Thomas Schröpfer and published by Birkhauser. This book was released on 2013 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The approach of Material Design opens the way to an innovative use of materials in the design professions. Taking material qualities and properties such as texture, elasticity and transparency as a point of departure, the book describes a multitude of material operations, like folding and bending, carving and cutting, weaving and knitting, mirroring and screening.
Book Synopsis Site Analysis by : James A. LaGro, Jr.
Download or read book Site Analysis written by James A. LaGro, Jr. and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The process-oriented guide to context-sensitive site selection, planning, and design Sustainable design is responsive to context. And each site has a unique set of physical, biological, cultural, and legal attributes that presents different opportunities and constraints for alternative uses of the site. Site analysis systematically evaluates these on-site and off-site factors to inform the design of places including neighborhoods and communities that are attractive, walkable, and climate-resilient. This Third Edition of Site Analysis is fully updated to cover the latest topics in low-impact, location-efficient design and development. This complete, user-friendly guide: Blends theory andpractice from the fields of landscape architecture, urban planning, architecture, geography, and urban design Addresses important sustainability topics, including LEED-ND, Sustainable Sites, STAR community index, and climate adaptation Details the objectives and visualization methods used in each phase of the site planning and design process Explains the influence of codes, ordinances, and site plan approval processes on the design of the built environment Includes more than 200 illustrations and eight case studies of projects completed by leading planning and design firms Site Analysis, Third Edition is the ideal guide for students taking courses in site analysis, site planning, and environmental design. New material includes review questions at the end of each chapter for students as well as early-career professionals preparing for the ARE, LARE, or AICP exams.
Book Synopsis Pittsburgh Figured Out by : Pittsburgh Map Project
Download or read book Pittsburgh Figured Out written by Pittsburgh Map Project and published by . This book was released on 1991-10 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Foundations of Informing Science: 1999-2008 by : T. Grandon Gill
Download or read book Foundations of Informing Science: 1999-2008 written by T. Grandon Gill and published by Informing Science. This book was released on 2009 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Informing Digital Futures by : Leela Damodaran
Download or read book Informing Digital Futures written by Leela Damodaran and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-11-07 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the present digital revolution we often seem trapped in a Kafkaesque world of technological advances, some desired, some disliked or even feared, which we cannot influence but must accept. This book discusses the urgent need to redress this situation. The authors argue that technologies succeed or fail according to their relevance and value to people, who need to be actively engaged in order to create shared visions and influence their implementation.
Book Synopsis Setting Knowledge Free: The Journal of Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology Volume 5, 2008 by : Eli Cohen
Download or read book Setting Knowledge Free: The Journal of Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology Volume 5, 2008 written by Eli Cohen and published by Informing Science. This book was released on with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Informing and Civilization by : Prof. Dr. Andrew Targowski
Download or read book Informing and Civilization written by Prof. Dr. Andrew Targowski and published by Informing Science. This book was released on 2016 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to synthesize the role of information throughout the history of civilization’s development. This will be defined through the convergence of (a) the cumulative evolution and revolution of the intellect (cognition as data, information, concepts, knowledge, and wisdom), (b) labor, and (c) politics which seek to control the environment, society, and the world, applying culture and infrastructure as tools. Whereas researchers reveal the myriad of dimensions of the social order and its historiography, this book provides a synthesis of the relations, which is limited to information (and its informing systems) and civilization within the context of historiosophie (history with judgment). The method presented in this book—the architectural approach to the dynamics of civilizational development—is a new layer over the quantitative history based on statistical data. In an architectural synthesis of civilization, we seek a “big picture” of “civilization waves” in order to develop some criteria-oriented views of the world and its future predictability. To understand the crises and conflicts of civilization which are driven by technology in recent centuries, such a synthesis as well as optimism for human proactive adaptation, survival, and, development must be undertaken. This approach to civilizational development should allow humans to eventually “reinvent the future” in a continuous manner. We, in due course, should be able to predict the “rate of change” and provide “civilization bridging solutions” based on original thinking. It is important to remind ourselves that information is as old as our world (about 15 billion years) because plants and trees and, in general, non-human nature produces all sorts of information, for example, the changing colors of plants and trees, which is associated with the different seasons. When the first living organisms appeared on our planet, they had ability to inform as well by changing forms, colors, signals and, so one. The first signs of life on our planet came into being about 3.85 billion years ago. Therefore, organism-based life on the Earth actually came to be over a period of just 130 million years. Hominids diverged from apes some 10-6 million years ago (instinct-driven info-communication, i.e., behavior less controlled by cognition), and the first humans (bipeds with large brains who could use tools and sound-driven info-communication) took form around 6-2.5 million years ago in Southeast Africa. Homo symbolicus, who could skillfully use language, appeared about 60,000 years ago. The origin of civilization some 6,000 years ago marks the beginning of the first advanced info-communication systems applied by humans, who could even record information.
Book Synopsis Informing Science Volume Two: Design and Research Issues by : T. Grandon Gill
Download or read book Informing Science Volume Two: Design and Research Issues written by T. Grandon Gill and published by Informing Science. This book was released on with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two volume Informing Science series is the first attempt to survey and synthesize research in the informing science transdiscipline. Part textbook, part collection of readings, the two volumes present both important research findings relating to the field and highlight fertile directions for future research. Volume Two: Design and Research Issues applies the building blocks of informing science described in Volume One: Concepts and Systems to design and research questions. It begins by looking at alternative approaches to informing system design. These include structured methodologies, agile approaches, effectuation, and emergent models. A series of chapters follows that present research findings related to a series of topics that have played an important role in the development of informing science as a research area. These include the relationship between rigor and research methods, threats to informing (such as misinformation and disinformation), the nature of informing impact, information cascades, the relationship of culture to informing, and the research-practice gap. The book concludes with a chapter that considers possible extensions to the current informing science research agenda and an afterword that presents the author’s reflections on the development of series and its long term future.
Book Synopsis Information in Motion:: The Journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology (Volume 7) by : Eli Cohen
Download or read book Information in Motion:: The Journal Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology (Volume 7) written by Eli Cohen and published by Informing Science. This book was released on with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Informing Science Volume One: Concepts and Systems by : T. Grandon Gill
Download or read book Informing Science Volume One: Concepts and Systems written by T. Grandon Gill and published by Informing Science. This book was released on 2016 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two volume Informing Science series is the first attempt to survey and synthesize research in the informing science transdiscipline. Part textbook, part collection of readings, the two volumes present both important research findings relating to the field and highlight fertile directions for future research. Volume One: Concepts and Systems focuses on the key building blocks of informing science. It begins with an overview of the transdiscipline, tracing its evolution from Cohen’s original proposal to its present state. Next, it considers a series of concepts that frequently elude attempts at rigorous definition. Among these: theory, research, information, knowledge and complexity. With working definitions established, it goes on to explore basic systems theory, introducing the concept of an informing system. The key elements of such systems—the channel, the sender/informer, and the receiver/client—are then examined individually. The volume concludes with two overview chapters. The first of these looks at the analysis of a basic informing system, in which a single informer interacts directly with a clearly specified client or set of clients. The last chapter extends these ideas to the more complex topologies (e.g., multiple channels, multiple informers, multiple clients, layers of informing) that are more typical in real world informing contexts.
Book Synopsis Informing for Operations: Framework, Model, and the First Principles, 2nd ed (2011) by : Zbigniew Gackowski
Download or read book Informing for Operations: Framework, Model, and the First Principles, 2nd ed (2011) written by Zbigniew Gackowski and published by Informing Science. This book was released on 2009 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Informing View of Organization: Strategic Perspective by : Travica, Bob
Download or read book Informing View of Organization: Strategic Perspective written by Travica, Bob and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Businesses are incorporating automated processes and information technology, as cost cutters or productivity boosters, into their business strategy now more than ever. However, as information systems (IS) research is further focusing on IS strategy, as well as advancing business strategy research, there is a need to examine the increasing integration of technology and automation through a clear framework. Informing View of Organization is such a framework. Informing View of Organization: Strategic Perspective features coverage on a wide range of topics such as group informatics, infoprocesses, and big data. This book is ideally designed for academics, students, managers, information technology professionals, computer engineers, programmers, and researchers interested in organization-technology interaction.
Download or read book The UX Book written by Rex Hartson and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2012-01-25 with total page 973 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The UX Book: Process and Guidelines for Ensuring a Quality User Experience aims to help readers learn how to create and refine interaction designs that ensure a quality user experience (UX). The book seeks to expand the concept of traditional usability to a broader notion of user experience; to provide a hands-on, practical guide to best practices and established principles in a UX lifecycle; and to describe a pragmatic process for managing the overall development effort. The book provides an iterative and evaluation-centered UX lifecycle template, called the Wheel, for interaction design. Key concepts discussed include contextual inquiry and analysis; extracting interaction design requirements; constructing design-informing models; design production; UX goals, metrics, and targets; prototyping; UX evaluation; the interaction cycle and the user action framework; and UX design guidelines. This book will be useful to anyone interested in learning more about creating interaction designs to ensure a quality user experience. These include interaction designers, graphic designers, usability analysts, software engineers, programmers, systems analysts, software quality-assurance specialists, human factors engineers, cognitive psychologists, cosmic psychics, trainers, technical writers, documentation specialists, marketing personnel, and project managers. - A very broad approach to user experience through its components—usability, usefulness, and emotional impact with special attention to lightweight methods such as rapid UX evaluation techniques and an agile UX development process - Universal applicability of processes, principles, and guidelines—not just for GUIs and the Web, but for all kinds of interaction and devices: embodied interaction, mobile devices, ATMs, refrigerators, and elevator controls, and even highway signage - Extensive design guidelines applied in the context of the various kinds of affordances necessary to support all aspects of interaction - Real-world stories and contributions from accomplished UX practitioners - A practical guide to best practices and established principles in UX - A lifecycle template that can be instantiated and tailored to a given project, for a given type of system development, on a given budget
Book Synopsis Informing Decisions in a Changing Climate by : National Research Council
Download or read book Informing Decisions in a Changing Climate written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2009-07-04 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone-government agencies, private organizations, and individuals-is facing a changing climate: an environment in which it is no longer prudent to follow routines based on past climatic averages. State and local agencies in particular, as well as the federal government, need to consider what they will have to do differently if the 100-year flood arrives every decade or so, if the protected areas for threatened species are no longer habitable, or if a region can expect more frequent and more severe wildfires, hurricanes, droughts, water shortages, or other extreme environmental events. Both conceptually and practically, people and organizations will have to adjust what may be life-long assumptions to meet the potential consequences of climate change. How and where should bridges be built? What zoning rules may need to be changed? How can targets for reduced carbon emissions be met? These and myriad other questions will need to be answered in the coming years and decades. Informing Decisions in a Changing Climate examines the growing need for climate-related decision support-that is, organized efforts to produce, disseminate, and facilitate the use of data and information in order to improve the quality and efficacy of climate-related decisions. Drawing on evidence from past efforts to organize science for improved decision making, it develops guidance for government agencies and other institutions that will provide or use information for coping with climate change. This volume provides critical analysis of interest to agencies at every level, as well as private organizations that will have to cope with the world's changing climate.
Book Synopsis Human Factors in Green Building by : Zhonghua Gou
Download or read book Human Factors in Green Building written by Zhonghua Gou and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2019-01-23 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Human Factors in Green Building" that was published in Buildings
Book Synopsis Informing Business: Research and Education on a Rugged Landscape by : T. Grandon Gill
Download or read book Informing Business: Research and Education on a Rugged Landscape written by T. Grandon Gill and published by Informing Science. This book was released on 2010 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
