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The Persona Lifecycle

Keeping People in Mind Throughout Product Design

by John Pruitt, Tamara Adlin ...

Series series Interactive Technologies
If you design and develop products for people, this book is for you. The Persona Lifecycle addresses the “how? of creating effective personas and using those personas to design products that people love. It doesn’t just describe the value of personas; it offers detailed techniques and tools related to planning, creating, communicating, and using personas to create great product designs. Moreover, ... Read more

$69.11 CAD

If you design and develop products for people, this book is for you. The Persona Lifecycle addresses the “how? of creating effective personas and using those personas to design products that people love. It doesn’t just describe the value of personas; it offers detailed techniques and tools related to planning, creating, communicating, and using personas to create great product designs. Moreover,
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Medical Modeling

The Application of Advanced Design and Additive Manufacturing Techniques in Medicine

by Richard Bibb, Dominic Eggbeer, Abby Paterson, Mazher Iqbal Mohammed ...

Series series Woodhead Publishing Series in Biomaterials
Medical Modelling: The Application of Advanced Design and Additive Manufacturing Techniques in Medicine, Third Edition provides readers with a thorough update of the core contents, along with key information on innovative imaging techniques, additive manufacturing technologies and a range of applied case studies. This comprehensive new edition includes new coverage of advanced technologies, such ... Read more

$238.31 CAD

Medical Modelling: The Application of Advanced Design and Additive Manufacturing Techniques in Medicine, Third Edition provides readers with a thorough update of the core contents, along with key information on innovative imaging techniques, additive manufacturing technologies and a range of applied case studies. This comprehensive new edition includes new coverage of advanced technologies, such
... Read more
Formal Techniques for Safety-Critical Systems

4th International Workshop, FTSCS 2015, Paris, France, November 6-7, 2015. Revised Selected Papers

Edited by Cyrille Artho, Peter Csaba Ölveczky ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Formal Techniques for Safety-Critical Systems, FTSCS 2015, held in Paris, France, in November 2015.The 15 revised full papers presented together with one invited talk and two tool papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 41 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on timed systems; railway ... Read more

$58.04 CAD

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Formal Techniques for Safety-Critical Systems, FTSCS 2015, held in Paris, France, in November 2015.The 15 revised full papers presented together with one invited talk and two tool papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 41 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on timed systems; railway
... Read more
Big Data Analytics for Sensor-Network Collected Intelligence

Edited by Hui-Huang Hsu, Chuan-Yu Chang, Ching-Hsien Hsu ...

Series series Intelligent Data-Centric Systems
Big Data Analytics for Sensor-Network Collected Intelligence explores state-of-the-art methods for using advanced ICT technologies to perform intelligent analysis on sensor collected data. The book shows how to develop systems that automatically detect natural and human-made events, how to examine people's behaviors, and how to unobtrusively provide better services. It begins by exploring big data ... Read more

$103.67 CAD

Big Data Analytics for Sensor-Network Collected Intelligence explores state-of-the-art methods for using advanced ICT technologies to perform intelligent analysis on sensor collected data. The book shows how to develop systems that automatically detect natural and human-made events, how to examine people's behaviors, and how to unobtrusively provide better services. It begins by exploring big data
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Human-Computer Interaction

An Empirical Research Perspective

by I. Scott MacKenzie ...

Human-Computer Interaction: An Empirical Research Perspective is the definitive guide to empirical research in HCI. The book begins with foundational topics including an historical context, the human factor, interaction elements, and the fundamentals of science and research. From there, readers will progress to learning about the methods for conducting an experiment to evaluate a new computer ... Read more

$64.07 CAD

Human-Computer Interaction: An Empirical Research Perspective is the definitive guide to empirical research in HCI. The book begins with foundational topics including an historical context, the human factor, interaction elements, and the fundamentals of science and research. From there, readers will progress to learning about the methods for conducting an experiment to evaluate a new computer
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Empowering IoT with Big Data Analytics

Edited by Mohamed Adel Serhani, Yang Xu, Zakaria Maamar ...

Series series Intelligent Data-Centric Systems
Empowering IoT with Big Data Analytics provides comprehensive coverage of major topics, tools, and techniques related to empowering IoT with big data technologies and big data analytics solutions, thus allowing for better processing, analysis, protection, distribution, and visualization of data for the benefit of IoT applications and second, a better deployment of IoT applications on the ground. ... Read more

$151.19 CAD

Empowering IoT with Big Data Analytics provides comprehensive coverage of major topics, tools, and techniques related to empowering IoT with big data technologies and big data analytics solutions, thus allowing for better processing, analysis, protection, distribution, and visualization of data for the benefit of IoT applications and second, a better deployment of IoT applications on the ground.
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Digital Design and Computer Architecture, RISC-V Edition

by Sarah Harris, David Harris ...

The newest addition to the Harris and Harris family of Digital Design and Computer Architecture books, this RISC-V Edition covers the fundamentals of digital logic design and reinforces logic concepts through the design of a RISC-V microprocessor. Combining an engaging and humorous writing style with an updated and hands-on approach to digital design, this book takes the reader from the ... Read more

$63.35 CAD

The newest addition to the Harris and Harris family of Digital Design and Computer Architecture books, this RISC-V Edition covers the fundamentals of digital logic design and reinforces logic concepts through the design of a RISC-V microprocessor. Combining an engaging and humorous writing style with an updated and hands-on approach to digital design, this book takes the reader from the
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HCI International 2015 - Posters’ Extended Abstracts

International Conference, HCI International 2015, Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 2-7, 2015. Proceedings, Part I

Edited by Constantine Stephanidis ...

Series Book 1 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This is the first volume of the two-volume set (CCIS 528 and CCIS 529) that contains extended abstracts of the posters presented during the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2015, held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece in August 2015.The total of 1462 papers and 246 posters presented at the HCII 2015 conferences was carefully reviewed and selected from 4843 submissions. ... Read more

$58.04 CAD

This is the first volume of the two-volume set (CCIS 528 and CCIS 529) that contains extended abstracts of the posters presented during the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2015, held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece in August 2015.The total of 1462 papers and 246 posters presented at the HCII 2015 conferences was carefully reviewed and selected from 4843 submissions.
... Read more
Immersive Learning Research Network

Second International Conference, iLRN 2016 Santa Barbara, CA, USA, June 27 – July 1, 2016 Proceedings

Edited by Colin Allison, Leonel Morgado, Johanna Pirker, Dennis Beck, Jonathon Richter, Christian Gütl ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference of the Immersive Learning Network, iLRN 2016, held in Santa Barbara, CA, USA, in June/July 2016.The proceedings contain 9 full papers carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions and the best 5 special track papers. The papers focus on various applications of immersive technologies to learning. ... Read more

$58.04 CAD

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference of the Immersive Learning Network, iLRN 2016, held in Santa Barbara, CA, USA, in June/July 2016.The proceedings contain 9 full papers carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions and the best 5 special track papers. The papers focus on various applications of immersive technologies to learning.
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Collaboration Technologies and Social Computing

8th International Conference, CollabTech 2016, Kanazawa, Japan, September 14-16, 2016, Proceedings

Edited by Takashi Yoshino, Gwo-Dong Chen, Gustavo Zurita, Takaya Yuizono, Tomoo Inoue, Nelson Baloian ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Collaboration Technologies, CollabTech 2016, held in Kanazawa, Japan, in September 2016.The 16 revised full papers presented together with 4 short papers and a keynote were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. The papers focus on the following topics: cross-cultural collaboration; learning support ... Read more

$58.04 CAD

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Collaboration Technologies, CollabTech 2016, held in Kanazawa, Japan, in September 2016.The 16 revised full papers presented together with 4 short papers and a keynote were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. The papers focus on the following topics: cross-cultural collaboration; learning support
... Read more
The UX Book

Agile UX Design for a Quality User Experience

by Rex Hartson, Pardha S. Pyla ...

The UX Book: Agile Design for a Quality User Experience, Third Edition, takes a practical, applied, hands-on approach to UX design based on the application of established and emerging best practices, principles, and proven methods to ensure a quality user experience. The approach is about practice, drawing on the creative concepts of design exploration and visioning to make designs that appeal to ... Read more

$63.35 CAD

The UX Book: Agile Design for a Quality User Experience, Third Edition, takes a practical, applied, hands-on approach to UX design based on the application of established and emerging best practices, principles, and proven methods to ensure a quality user experience. The approach is about practice, drawing on the creative concepts of design exploration and visioning to make designs that appeal to
... Read more
Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering

38th International Conference, CAINE 2025, New Orleans, LA, USA, October 20–21, 2025, Proceedings

Edited by Indranil Roy, Krishna K. Kambhampaty, Takaki Goto, Gongzhu Hu ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering, CAINE 2025, which took place in New Orleans, LA, USA, during October 20–21, 2025.The 24 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. These papers were organized into the following topical sections: Intelligent Signals & ... Read more

$81.26 CAD

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering, CAINE 2025, which took place in New Orleans, LA, USA, during October 20–21, 2025.The 24 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. These papers were organized into the following topical sections: Intelligent Signals &
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Supercomputing

6th Russian Supercomputing Days, RuSCDays 2020, Moscow, Russia, September 21–22, 2020, Revised Selected Papers

Edited by Vladimir Voevodin, Sergey Sobolev ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 6th Russian Supercomputing Days, RuSCDays 2020, held in Moscow, Russia, in September 2020.*The 51 revised full and 4 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 106 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: parallel algorithms; supercomputer simulation; HPC, BigData, AI ... Read more

$104.48 CAD

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 6th Russian Supercomputing Days, RuSCDays 2020, held in Moscow, Russia, in September 2020.*The 51 revised full and 4 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 106 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: parallel algorithms; supercomputer simulation; HPC, BigData, AI
... Read more
Computer Supported Education

12th International Conference, CSEDU 2020, Virtual Event, May 2–4, 2020, Revised Selected Papers

Edited by H. Chad Lane, Susan Zvacek, James Uhomoibhi ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes selected, revised and extended papers from the 12th International Conference on Computer Supported Education, CSEDU 2020, held as a virtual event in May 2020.The 25 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 190 submissions. The presented papers contribute to the understanding of relevant trends of current research on Computer Supported Education, including ... Read more

$104.48 CAD

This book constitutes selected, revised and extended papers from the 12th International Conference on Computer Supported Education, CSEDU 2020, held as a virtual event in May 2020.The 25 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 190 submissions. The presented papers contribute to the understanding of relevant trends of current research on Computer Supported Education, including
... Read more
Human-Computer Interaction

8th Iberoamerican Workshop, HCI-COLLAB 2022, Havana, Cuba, October 13–15, 2022, Revised Selected Papers

Edited by Vanessa Agredo-Delgado, Pablo H. Ruiz, Omar Correa-Madrigal ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Iberoamerican Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI-COLLAB 2022, which took place in Havana, Cuba, in October 2022.The 15 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 53 submissions. The papers deal with topics such as emotional interfaces, usability, video games, computational thinking, collaborative ... Read more

$87.11 CAD

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Iberoamerican Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI-COLLAB 2022, which took place in Havana, Cuba, in October 2022.The 15 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 53 submissions. The papers deal with topics such as emotional interfaces, usability, video games, computational thinking, collaborative
... Read more
UX Leadership - Unternehmerisch Denken und wirkungsvoll Organisieren

Die passende und effektive UX Organisation im Unternehmen entwickeln

by Christian H. Hauri, Markus Flückiger, Bernhard von Allmen ...

Series series Business and Economics (German Language)
In diesem Buch bekommen sie als UX Leader praktische Hinweise, wie sie eine gesamtheitliche Sicht auf UX in ihrer Organisation erhalten und UX unternehmerisch entwickeln. Sie sehen, wie mit verschiedenen Ansätzen eine Organisation gestaltet werden kann, die gute UX erzeugt und sowohl für die Nutzer wie auch für die Firma einen Mehrwert bringt. Sie erkennen Möglichkeiten der Weiterentwicklung ... Read more

$27.17 CAD

In diesem Buch bekommen sie als UX Leader praktische Hinweise, wie sie eine gesamtheitliche Sicht auf UX in ihrer Organisation erhalten und UX unternehmerisch entwickeln. Sie sehen, wie mit verschiedenen Ansätzen eine Organisation gestaltet werden kann, die gute UX erzeugt und sowohl für die Nutzer wie auch für die Firma einen Mehrwert bringt. Sie erkennen Möglichkeiten der Weiterentwicklung
... Read more
Deep Learning with PyTorch Step-by-Step: A Beginner's Guide - Volume III: Sequences & NLP

Deep Learning with PyTorch Step-by-Step: A Beginner's Guide, #3

by Daniel Voigt Godoy ...

Series Book 3 - Deep Learning with PyTorch Step-by-Step: A Beginner's Guide
Revised for PyTorch 2.x!Why this book?Are you looking for a book where you can learn about deep learning and PyTorch without having to spend hours deciphering cryptic text and code? A technical book that's also easy and enjoyable to read?This is it!How is this book different?First, this book presents an easy-to-follow, ... ... Read more

$9.95 CAD

Revised for PyTorch 2.x!Why this book?Are you looking for a book where you can learn about deep learning and PyTorch without having to spend hours deciphering cryptic text and code? A technical book that's also easy and enjoyable to read?This is it!How is this book different?First, this book presents an easy-to-follow, ...
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The Design of Shopping Experiences

How eXtended Reality Shapes Fashion

by Marina Ricci ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This text provides a scientific and in-depth perspective on the transformative power of XR technologies in the fashion field. The text gathers some of the outcomes of a doctoral dissertation entitled “Designing next-generation retail experiences via virtual reality and pseudo-haptics.” Due to the transdisciplinary nature of the subject, wherein the fields of Retail, Fashion, and Interaction Design ... Read more

$232.28 CAD

This text provides a scientific and in-depth perspective on the transformative power of XR technologies in the fashion field. The text gathers some of the outcomes of a doctoral dissertation entitled “Designing next-generation retail experiences via virtual reality and pseudo-haptics.” Due to the transdisciplinary nature of the subject, wherein the fields of Retail, Fashion, and Interaction Design
... Read more
Security and Privacy in Biometrics

Edited by Patrizio Campisi ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This important text/reference presents the latest secure and privacy-compliant techniques in automatic human recognition. Featuring viewpoints from an international selection of experts in the field, the comprehensive coverage spans both theory and practical implementations, taking into consideration all ethical and legal issues. Topics and features: presents a unique focus on novel approaches and ... Read more

$104.48 CAD

This important text/reference presents the latest secure and privacy-compliant techniques in automatic human recognition. Featuring viewpoints from an international selection of experts in the field, the comprehensive coverage spans both theory and practical implementations, taking into consideration all ethical and legal issues. Topics and features: presents a unique focus on novel approaches and
... Read more
Advances in Commercial Deployment of Spoken Dialog Systems

by David Suendermann ...

Series series Engineering (R0)
Advances in Commercial Deployment of Spoken Dialog Systems covers the peculiarities of commercial deployments of spoken dialog systems, from the tools, standards, and design principles to build them, the infrastructure to deploy them, techniques to monitor, evaluate, and analyze them, and, most importantly, effective strategies to adapt, tune, and optimize them. The book shows to what extent ... Read more

$54.62 CAD

Advances in Commercial Deployment of Spoken Dialog Systems covers the peculiarities of commercial deployments of spoken dialog systems, from the tools, standards, and design principles to build them, the infrastructure to deploy them, techniques to monitor, evaluate, and analyze them, and, most importantly, effective strategies to adapt, tune, and optimize them. The book shows to what extent
... Read more
Introduction to React

by Cory Gackenheimer ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Introduction to Reactteaches you React, the JavaScript framework created by developers at Facebook, to solve the problem of building complex user interfaces in a consistent and maintainable way. React.js shrugs away common front-end conventions in an effort to make things more efficient - use Introduction to React to learn about this framework and more today.Get to know the React API and it’s ... Read more

$29.33 CAD

Introduction to Reactteaches you React, the JavaScript framework created by developers at Facebook, to solve the problem of building complex user interfaces in a consistent and maintainable way. React.js shrugs away common front-end conventions in an effort to make things more efficient - use Introduction to React to learn about this framework and more today.Get to know the React API and it’s
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Pro CDI 2 in Java EE 8

An In-Depth Guide to Context and Dependency Injection

by Jan Beernink, Arjan Tijms ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
In Pro CDI 2 in Java EE 8, use CDI and the CDI 2.0 to automatically manage the life cycle of your enterprise Java, Java EE, or Jakarta EE application’s beans using predefined scopes and define custom life cycles using scopes. In this book, you will see how you can implement dynamic and asynchronous communication between separate beans in your application with CDI events.The authors explain how to ... Read more

$61.91 CAD

In Pro CDI 2 in Java EE 8, use CDI and the CDI 2.0 to automatically manage the life cycle of your enterprise Java, Java EE, or Jakarta EE application’s beans using predefined scopes and define custom life cycles using scopes. In this book, you will see how you can implement dynamic and asynchronous communication between separate beans in your application with CDI events.The authors explain how to
... Read more
Tacit Engagement

Beyond Interaction

by Satinder P. Gill ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This book explores how digital technology is altering the relationships between people and how the very nature of interface itself needs to be reconsidered to reflect this – how we can make sense of each other, handle ambiguities, negotiate differences, empathise and collectively make skilled judgments in our modern society. The author presents new directions for research at the relational ... Read more

$58.04 CAD

This book explores how digital technology is altering the relationships between people and how the very nature of interface itself needs to be reconsidered to reflect this – how we can make sense of each other, handle ambiguities, negotiate differences, empathise and collectively make skilled judgments in our modern society. The author presents new directions for research at the relational
... Read more
HCI International 2018 – Posters' Extended Abstracts

20th International Conference, HCI International 2018, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 15-20, 2018, Proceedings, Part I

Edited by Constantine Stephanidis ...

Series Book 1 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
The three-volume set CCIS 850, CCIS 851, and CCIS 852 contains the extended abstracts of the posters presented during the 20th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI 2018, which took place in Las Vegas, Nevada, in July 2018.The total of 1171 papers and 160 posters included in the 30 HCII 2018 proceedings volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 4346 submissions.The 207 ... Read more

$92.87 CAD

The three-volume set CCIS 850, CCIS 851, and CCIS 852 contains the extended abstracts of the posters presented during the 20th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI 2018, which took place in Las Vegas, Nevada, in July 2018.The total of 1171 papers and 160 posters included in the 30 HCII 2018 proceedings volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 4346 submissions.The 207
... Read more

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