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Designing Information Technology in the Postmodern Age

Author : Richard Coyne
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
ISBN 13 : 9780262270885
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Designing Information Technology in the Postmodern Age written by Richard Coyne and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1995 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designing Information Technology in the Postmodern Age puts the theoretical discussion of computer systems and information technology on a new footing. Shifting the discourse from its usual rationalistic framework, Richard Coyne shows how the conception, development, and application of computer systems is challenged and enhanced by postmodern philosophical thought. He places particular emphasis on the theory of metaphor, showing how it has more to offer than notions of method and models appropriated from science. Coyne examines the entire range of contemporary philosophical thinking including logical positivism, analytic philosophy, pragmatism, phenomenology, critical theory, hermeneutics, and deconstruction - comparing them and showing how they differ in their consequences for design and development issues in electronic communications, computer representation, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and multimedia. He also probes the claims made of information technology, including its presumptions of control, its so-called radicality, even its ability to make virtual worlds, and shows that many of these claims are poorly founded.

Designing Information Technology in the Postmodern Age

Author : Richard Coyne
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
ISBN 13 : 9780262518949
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (189 download)

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Book Synopsis Designing Information Technology in the Postmodern Age by : Richard Coyne

Download or read book Designing Information Technology in the Postmodern Age written by Richard Coyne and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coyne examines the entire range of contemporary philosophicalthinking—including logical positivism, analytic philosophy, pragmatism, phenomenology,critical theory, hermeneutics, and deconstruction—comparing them and showing how theydiffer in their consequences for design and development issues in electronic communications,computer representation, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and multimedia.

The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Computing and Information

Author : Luciano Floridi
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470756764
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (77 download)

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Book Synopsis The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Computing and Information by : Luciano Floridi

Download or read book The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Computing and Information written by Luciano Floridi and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Guide provides an ambitious state-of-the-art survey of the fundamental themes, problems, arguments and theories constituting the philosophy of computing. A complete guide to the philosophy of computing and information. Comprises 26 newly-written chapters by leading international experts. Provides a complete, critical introduction to the field. Each chapter combines careful scholarship with an engaging writing style. Includes an exhaustive glossary of technical terms. Ideal as a course text, but also of interest to researchers and general readers.

Designing Information Spaces: The Social Navigation Approach

Author : Kristina Höök
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1447100352
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (471 download)

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Book Synopsis Designing Information Spaces: The Social Navigation Approach by : Kristina Höök

Download or read book Designing Information Spaces: The Social Navigation Approach written by Kristina Höök and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social navigation is an emerging field which examines how we navigate information or locate services in both real and virtual environments and how we interact with and use others to find our way in information spaces. It has led to new ways of thinking about how we design information spaces and how we address usability issues, particularly in collaborative, web-based systems. This book follows on from Munro et al, Social Navigation of Information Space, which was the first major work in this field. It provides a similar broad overview of the field, but is much more practical in focus.

Designing Culture

Author : Anne Balsamo
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822344459
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Designing Culture written by Anne Balsamo and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-19 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cultural theorist and media designer Anne Balsamo calls for transforming learning practices to inspire culturally attuned technological imaginations.

Cross-Cultural Technology Design

Author : Huatong Sun
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0199744769
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Cross-Cultural Technology Design written by Huatong Sun and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-03-02 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how to create culture-sensitive technology for local users in an increasingly globalized world with rising participatory culture. Illustrated with a cross-cultural study of mobile messaging use, Sun presents an innovative framework integrating action and meaning through a dialogical, cyclical design process to create usable and meaningful technology.

Handbook of Research for Educational Communications and Technology

Author : David Jonassen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135637369
Total Pages : 1195 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Research for Educational Communications and Technology written by David Jonassen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-08 with total page 1195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Design Studies

Author : Audrey Bennett
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 9781568985978
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (859 download)

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Download or read book Design Studies written by Audrey Bennett and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2006-08-31 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an age of globalization and connectivity, the idea of "mainstream culture" has become quaint. Websites, magazines, books, and television have all honed in on ever-diversifying subcultures, hoping to carve out niche audiences that grow savvier and more narrowly sliced by the day. Consequently, the discipline of graphic design has undergone a sea change. Where visual communication was once informed by a designer's creative intuition, the proliferation of specialized audiences now calls for more research-based design processes. Designers who ignore research run the risk of becoming mere tools for communication rather than bold voices. Design Studies, a collection of 27 essays from an international cast of top design researchers, sets out to mend this schism between research and practice. The texts presented here make a strong argument for performing rigorous experimentation and analysis. Each author outlines methods in which research has aided their designwhether by investigating how senior citizens react to design aesthetics, how hip hop culture can inﬂuence design, or how design for Third World nations is affected by cultural differences. Contributors also outline inspired ways in which design educators can teach research methods to their students. Finally, Design Studies is rounded out by ﬁve annotated bibliographies to further aid designers in their research. This comprehensive reader is the deﬁnitive reference for this new direction in graphic design, and an essential resource for both students and practitioners.

Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology

Author : David H. Jonassen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0805841458
Total Pages : 1195 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (58 download)

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Book Synopsis Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology by : David H. Jonassen

Download or read book Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology written by David H. Jonassen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2004 with total page 1195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of this handbook updates and expands its review of the research, theory, issues and methodology that constitute the field of educational communications and technology. Organized into seven sectors, it profiles and integrates the following elements of this rapidly changing field.

Issues & Trends of Information Technology Management in Contemporary Organizations

Author : Information Resources Management Association. International Conference
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 9781930708396
Total Pages : 878 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Issues & Trends of Information Technology Management in Contemporary Organizations written by Information Resources Management Association. International Conference and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the field of information technology continues to grow and expand, it impacts more and more organizations worldwide. The leaders within these organizations are challenged on a continuous basis to develop and implement programs that successfully apply information technology applications. This is a collection of unique perspectives on the issues surrounding IT in organizations and the ways in which these issues are addressed. This valuable book is a compilation of the latest research in the area of IT utilization and management.

The Tuning of Place

Author : Richard Coyne
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262265621
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book The Tuning of Place written by Richard Coyne and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2010-03-26 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How pervasive digital devices—smartphones, iPods, GPS navigation systems, and their networks—us formulate a sense of place and refine social relationships How do pervasive digital devices—smartphones, iPods, GPS navigation systems, and cameras, among others—influence the way we use spaces? In The Tuning of Place, Richard Coyne argues that these ubiquitous devices and the networks that support them become the means of making incremental adjustments within spaces—of tuning place. Pervasive media help us formulate a sense of place, writes Coyne, through their capacity to introduce small changes, in the same way that tuning a musical instrument invokes the subtle process of recalibration. Places are inhabited spaces, populated by people, their concerns, memories, stories, conversations, encounters, and artifacts. The tuning of place—whereby people use their devices in their interactions with one another—is also a tuning of social relations. The range of ubiquity is vast—from the familiar phones and hand-held devices through RFID tags, smart badges, dynamic signage, microprocessors in cars and kitchen appliances, wearable computing, and prosthetics, to devices still in development. Rather than catalog achievements and predictions, Coyne offers a theoretical framework for discussing pervasive media that can inform developers, designers, and users as they contemplate interventions into the environment. Processes of tuning can lead to consideration of themes highly relevant to pervasive computing: intervention, calibration, wedges, habits, rhythm, tags, taps, tactics, thresholds, aggregation, noise, and interference.

Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics

Author : Don Harris
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135156823X
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics written by Don Harris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second of two edited volumes from an international group of researchers and specialists, which together comprise the edited proceedings of the First International Conference on Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics, organized by Cranfield College of Aeronautics at Stratford-upon-Avon, England in October 1996. The applications areas include aerospace and other transportation, human-computer interaction, process control and training technology. Topics addressed include: the design of control and display systems; human perception, error, reliability, information processing, and human perception, error, reliability, information processing, and awareness, skill acquisition and retention; techniques for evaluating human-machine systems and the physiological correlates of performance. While Volume one is more clearly focused on the domain of aviation and ground transportation, Volume two is concerned with human factors in job and product design, the basics of decision making and training, with relevance to all industrial domains. Part one opens with a keynote chapter by Ken Eason. It is followed by Part two dealing with learning and training, while Part three reflects the rapidly growing area of medical ergonomics. Part four entitled 'Applied Cognitive Psychology' is biased towards human capabilities, an understanding of which is central to sound human engineering decisions. Part five firmly emphasizes equipment rather than its human operators.

Information Arts

Author : Stephen Wilson
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262731584
Total Pages : 980 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Information Arts written by Stephen Wilson and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2003-02-28 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the work and ideas of artists who use—and even influence—science and technology. A new breed of contemporary artist engages science and technology—not just to adopt the vocabulary and gizmos, but to explore and comment on the content, agendas, and possibilities. Indeed, proposes Stephen Wilson, the role of the artist is not only to interpret and to spread scientific knowledge, but to be an active partner in determining the direction of research. Years ago, C. P. Snow wrote about the "two cultures" of science and the humanities; these developments may finally help to change the outlook of those who view science and technology as separate from the general culture. In this rich compendium, Wilson offers the first comprehensive survey of international artists who incorporate concepts and research from mathematics, the physical sciences, biology, kinetics, telecommunications, and experimental digital systems such as artificial intelligence and ubiquitous computing. In addition to visual documentation and statements by the artists, Wilson examines relevant art-theoretical writings and explores emerging scientific and technological research likely to be culturally significant in the future. He also provides lists of resources including organizations, publications, conferences, museums, research centers, and Web sites.

Human Benefit through the Diffusion of Information Systems Design Science Research

Author : Jan Pries-Heje
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3642121136
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (421 download)

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Download or read book Human Benefit through the Diffusion of Information Systems Design Science Research written by Jan Pries-Heje and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-03-10 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the proceedings of the 2010 Joint International Working C- ference of the International Federation for Information Processing Working Groups 8.2 and 8.6. Both working groups are part of IFIP Technical Committee 8, the tech- cal committee addressing the field of Information Systems. IFIP WG 8.2, the Inter- tion of Information Systems and Organizations, was established in 1977. IFIP WG 8.6, Diffusion, Transfer and Implementation of Information Technology, was est- lished in 1994. In accordance with their respective themes, both IFIP WG 8.2 and IFIP WG 8.6 have long had an interest in the human impact of information systems. In December 1998, they held a joint working conference in Helsinki, Finland, on the theme “Inf- mation Systems: Current Issues and Future Challenges.” The two working groups’ joint interest in and collaboration on research concerning the human side of IS is c- tinued and extended through this joint working conference, held on the campus of Curtin University of Technology, from March 30 to April 1, 2010, in Perth, Western Australia. This conference, “Human Benefit Through the Diffusion of Information Systems Design Science Research,” combines the traditional themes of the two working groups with the growing interest within the IS research field in the area of design science research.

Interpretation in Architecture

Author : Adrian Snodgrass
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134222645
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Interpretation in Architecture written by Adrian Snodgrass and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on cultural theory, phenomenology and concepts from Asian art and philosophy, this book reflects on the role of interpretation in the act of architectural creation, bringing an intellectual and scholarly dimension to real-world architectural design practice. For practising architects as well as academic researchers, these essays consider interpretation from three theoretical standpoints or themes: play, edification and otherness. Focusing on these, the book draws together strands of thought informed by the diverse reflections of hermeneutical scholarship, the uses of digital media and studio teaching and practice.

Data Made Flesh

Author : Robert Mitchell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135216665
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Data Made Flesh written by Robert Mitchell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an age of cloning, cyborgs, and biotechnology, the line between bodies and bytes seems to be disappearing. DataMade Flesh is the first collection to address the increasingly important links between information and embodiment, at a moment when we are routinely tempted, in the words of Donna Haraway, "to be raptured out of the bodies that matter in the lust for information," whether in the rush to complete the Human Genome Project or in the race to clone a human being.

Network Nature

Author : Richard Coyne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350029513
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Network Nature written by Richard Coyne and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do people avoid the stresses of the digital age? Urban dwellers must now turn to nature to recover, restore and rebalance after the stresses brought on by relentless digital connectivity. It is easy to task nature as the cure, with technology as the ailment. In Network Nature, Richard Coyne challenges the definitions of both the natural and the artificial that support this time-worn narrative of nature's benefits. In the process, he attacks the counter-claim that nature must succumb to the sovereignty of digital data. Covering a spectrum of issues and concepts, from big data and biohacking to animality, numinous spaces and the post-digital, he draws on the rich field of semiotics as applied to natural systems and human communication, to enhance our understanding of place, landscape and architecture in a digital world.