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Games and Learning Alliance

12th International Conference, GALA 2023, Dublin, Ireland, November 29 – December 1, 2023, Proceedings

Edited by Pierpaolo Dondio, Mariana Rocha, Attracta Brennan, Avo Schönbohm, Francesca de Rosa, Antti Koskinen, Francesco Bellotti ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This LNCS volume constitutes the proceedings of 12th International Conference, GALA 2023, in Dublin, Ireland, held during November/December 2023.The 36 full papers and 13 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 88 submissions. The papers contained in this book have been organized into six categories, reflecting the variety of theoretical approaches and application domains of ... Read more

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This LNCS volume constitutes the proceedings of 12th International Conference, GALA 2023, in Dublin, Ireland, held during November/December 2023.The 36 full papers and 13 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 88 submissions. The papers contained in this book have been organized into six categories, reflecting the variety of theoretical approaches and application domains of
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Human-Computer Interaction - INTERACT 2017

16th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Mumbai, India, September 25–29, 2017, Proceedings, Part I

Edited by Regina Bernhaupt, Girish Dalvi, Anirudha Joshi, Devanuj K. Balkrishan, Jacki O'Neill, Marco Winckler ...

Series Book 1 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
The four-volume set LNCS 10513—10516 constitutes the proceedings of the 16th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, INTERACT 2017, held in Mumbai, India, in September 2017.The total of 68 papers presented in these books was carefully reviewed and selected from 221 submissions. The contributions are organized in topical sections named:Part I: adaptive design and mobile ... Read more

$58.04 CAD

The four-volume set LNCS 10513—10516 constitutes the proceedings of the 16th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, INTERACT 2017, held in Mumbai, India, in September 2017.The total of 68 papers presented in these books was carefully reviewed and selected from 221 submissions. The contributions are organized in topical sections named:Part I: adaptive design and mobile
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Trends in Functional Programming

21st International Symposium, TFP 2020, Krakow, Poland, February 13–14, 2020, Revised Selected Papers

Edited by Aleksander Byrski, John Hughes ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 21st International Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming, TFP 2020, which was held in Krakow, Poland, during February 13-14, 2020.The 11 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: domain-specific languages; debugging and testing; ... Read more

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This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 21st International Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming, TFP 2020, which was held in Krakow, Poland, during February 13-14, 2020.The 11 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: domain-specific languages; debugging and testing;
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Learning and Collaboration Technologies. Human and Technology Ecosystems

7th International Conference, LCT 2020, Held as Part of the 22nd HCI International Conference, HCII 2020, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 19–24, 2020, Proceedings, Part II

Edited by Panayiotis Zaphiris, Andri Ioannou ...

Series Book 2 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This two-volume set LNCS 12205 and LNCS 12206 constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Learning and Collaboration Technologies, LCT 2020, held as part of the 22nd International Conference, HCI International 2020, which took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, in July 2020.The total of 1439 papers and 238 posters included in the 37 HCII 2020 proceedings volumes was carefully ... Read more

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This two-volume set LNCS 12205 and LNCS 12206 constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Learning and Collaboration Technologies, LCT 2020, held as part of the 22nd International Conference, HCI International 2020, which took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, in July 2020.The total of 1439 papers and 238 posters included in the 37 HCII 2020 proceedings volumes was carefully
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HCI International 2020 - Late Breaking Papers: Multimodality and Intelligence

22nd HCI International Conference, HCII 2020, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 19–24, 2020, Proceedings

Edited by Constantine Stephanidis, Masaaki Kurosu, Helmut Degen, Lauren Reinerman-Jones ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes late breaking papers from the 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2020, which was held in July 2020. The conference was planned to take place in Copenhagen, Denmark, but had to change to a virtual conference mode due to the COVID-19 pandemic.From a total of 6326 submissions, a total of 1439 papers and 238 posters have been accepted for ... Read more

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This book constitutes late breaking papers from the 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2020, which was held in July 2020. The conference was planned to take place in Copenhagen, Denmark, but had to change to a virtual conference mode due to the COVID-19 pandemic.From a total of 6326 submissions, a total of 1439 papers and 238 posters have been accepted for
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Sonic Interactions in Virtual Environments

Edited by Michele Geronazzo, Stefania Serafin ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This open access book tackles the design of 3D spatial interactions in an audio-centered and audio-first perspective, providing the fundamental notions related to the creation and evaluation of immersive sonic experiences. The key elements that enhance the sensation of place in a virtual environment (VE) are:Immersive audio: the computational aspects of the acoustical-space properties of Virutal ... Read more

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This open access book tackles the design of 3D spatial interactions in an audio-centered and audio-first perspective, providing the fundamental notions related to the creation and evaluation of immersive sonic experiences. The key elements that enhance the sensation of place in a virtual environment (VE) are:Immersive audio: the computational aspects of the acoustical-space properties of Virutal
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Cognitive Modeling for Automated Human Performance Evaluation at Scale

by Haiyue Yuan, Shujun Li, Patrice Rusconi ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
Cognitive models and software tools have been widely used for both research and commercial purposes. Although they have proved very useful, there are some limitations preventing large-scale modeling and simulation tasks to be carried out efficiently and effectively. In this book, we aim to provide readers with a systematic overview of state-of-the-art cognitive modeling software tools and ... Read more

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Cognitive models and software tools have been widely used for both research and commercial purposes. Although they have proved very useful, there are some limitations preventing large-scale modeling and simulation tasks to be carried out efficiently and effectively. In this book, we aim to provide readers with a systematic overview of state-of-the-art cognitive modeling software tools and
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Novel Techniques in Recovering, Embedding, and Enforcing Policies for Control-Flow Integrity

by Yan Lin ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
There are three fundamental components in Control-Flow Integrity (CFI) enforcement. The first component is accurately recovering the policy (CFG). Usually, the more precise the policy is, the more security CFI improves, but precise CFG generation was considered hard without the support of source code. The second component is embedding the CFI policy securely. Current CFI enforcement usually ... Read more

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There are three fundamental components in Control-Flow Integrity (CFI) enforcement. The first component is accurately recovering the policy (CFG). Usually, the more precise the policy is, the more security CFI improves, but precise CFG generation was considered hard without the support of source code. The second component is embedding the CFI policy securely. Current CFI enforcement usually
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Information and Knowledge Systems. Digital Technologies, Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making

5th International Conference, ICIKS 2021, Virtual Event, June 22–23, 2021, Proceedings

Edited by Inès Saad, Camille Rosenthal-Sabroux, Faiez Gargouri, Pierre-Emmanuel Arduin ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Systems, ICIKS 2021, which was held online during June 22-23, 2021.The International Conference on Information and Knowledge Systems (ICIKS 2021) gathered both researchers and practitioners in the fields of Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Management and ... Read more

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Systems, ICIKS 2021, which was held online during June 22-23, 2021.The International Conference on Information and Knowledge Systems (ICIKS 2021) gathered both researchers and practitioners in the fields of Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge Management and
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HCI International 2020 - Posters

22nd International Conference, HCII 2020, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 19–24, 2020, Proceedings, Part III

Edited by Constantine Stephanidis, Margherita Antona ...

Series Book 3 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
The three-volume set CCIS 1224, CCIS 1225, and CCIS 1226 contains the extended abstracts of the posters presented during the 21st International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2020, which took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, in July 2020.*HCII 2020 received a total of 6326 submissions, of which 1439 papers and 238 posters were accepted for publication in the pre-conference proceedings ... Read more

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The three-volume set CCIS 1224, CCIS 1225, and CCIS 1226 contains the extended abstracts of the posters presented during the 21st International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2020, which took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, in July 2020.*HCII 2020 received a total of 6326 submissions, of which 1439 papers and 238 posters were accepted for publication in the pre-conference proceedings
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Man-Machine Speech Communication

14th National Conference, NCMMSC 2017, Lianyungang, China, October 11–13, 2017, Revised Selected Papers

Edited by Jianhua Tao, Thomas Fang Zheng, Changchun Bao, Dong Wang, Ya Li ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th National Conference on Man-Machine Speech Communication, NCMMSC 2017, held in Lianyungang, China, in October 2017.The 13 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 39 submissions. The papers address issues such as challenging issues in speech recognition and enhancement, speaker and language recognition, speech ... Read more

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th National Conference on Man-Machine Speech Communication, NCMMSC 2017, held in Lianyungang, China, in October 2017.The 13 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 39 submissions. The papers address issues such as challenging issues in speech recognition and enhancement, speaker and language recognition, speech
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Computer Animation and Social Agents

33rd International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents, CASA 2020, Bournemouth, UK, October 13-15, 2020, Proceedings

Edited by Feng Tian, Xiaosong Yang, Daniel Thalmann, Weiwei Xu, Jian Jun Zhang, Nadia Magnenat Thalmann, Jian Chang ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 33rd International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents, CASA 2020, held in Bournemouth, UK*, in October 2020.The 1 full paper and 13 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 86 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections of modelling, animation and simulation; virtual reality; ... Read more

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This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 33rd International Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents, CASA 2020, held in Bournemouth, UK*, in October 2020.The 1 full paper and 13 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 86 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections of modelling, animation and simulation; virtual reality;
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HCI International 2022 – Late Breaking Posters

24th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2022, Virtual Event, June 26 – July 1, 2022, Proceedings, Part II

Edited by Constantine Stephanidis, Margherita Antona, Stavroula Ntoa, Gavriel Salvendy ...

Series Book 2 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
Volume CCIS 1655 is part of the refereed proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2022, which was held virtually during June 26 to July 1, 2022.A total of 5583 individuals from academia, research institutes, industry, and governmental agencies from 88 countries submitted contributions, and 1276 papers and 275 posters were included in the proceedings that ... Read more

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Volume CCIS 1655 is part of the refereed proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2022, which was held virtually during June 26 to July 1, 2022.A total of 5583 individuals from academia, research institutes, industry, and governmental agencies from 88 countries submitted contributions, and 1276 papers and 275 posters were included in the proceedings that
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Advances in Information Systems Development

Information Systems Beyond 2020

Edited by Alena Siarheyeva, Chris Barry, Michael Lang, Henry Linger, Christoph Schneider ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This volume features a collection of papers on emerging concepts, significant insights, novel approaches and ideas in information systems development (ISD). It xamines advances in ISD in general and investigates emerging trends that will shape the ISD research agenda beyond 2020. The book gathers selected papers from the 28th International Conference on Information Systems Development held in ... Read more

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This volume features a collection of papers on emerging concepts, significant insights, novel approaches and ideas in information systems development (ISD). It xamines advances in ISD in general and investigates emerging trends that will shape the ISD research agenda beyond 2020. The book gathers selected papers from the 28th International Conference on Information Systems Development held in
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Advances in Information Retrieval

44th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2022, Stavanger, Norway, April 10–14, 2022, Proceedings, Part I

Edited by Matthias Hagen, Suzan Verberne, Craig Macdonald, Christin Seifert, Krisztian Balog, Kjetil Nørvåg, Vinay Setty ...

Series Book 1 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This two-volume set LNCS 13185 and 13186 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 44th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2022, held in April 2022, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The 35 full papers presented together with 11 reproducibility papers, 13 CLEF lab descriptions papers, 12 doctoral consortium papers, 5 workshop abstracts, and 4 tutorials abstracts were carefully reviewed and ... Read more

$116.09 CAD

This two-volume set LNCS 13185 and 13186 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 44th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2022, held in April 2022, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The 35 full papers presented together with 11 reproducibility papers, 13 CLEF lab descriptions papers, 12 doctoral consortium papers, 5 workshop abstracts, and 4 tutorials abstracts were carefully reviewed and
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MLOps with Databricks

Machine Learning and GenAI Applications End to End

by Maria Vechtomova ...

MLOps engineers have to deal with a glut of tools and SaaS applications, not to mention technical debt clogging the system. Such complexity requires a comprehensive approach. The Databricks platform provides all the critical components for end-to-end MLOps and LLMOps in one place. This exhaustive book shows you how to use Databricks to build and manage a robust ML system that delivers on your ... Read more

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MLOps engineers have to deal with a glut of tools and SaaS applications, not to mention technical debt clogging the system. Such complexity requires a comprehensive approach. The Databricks platform provides all the critical components for end-to-end MLOps and LLMOps in one place. This exhaustive book shows you how to use Databricks to build and manage a robust ML system that delivers on your
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Raku Recipes

A Problem-Solution Approach

by J.J. Merelo ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Explore Raku problems and solutions using the latest version of the Raku programming language. In Raku Recipes, the emphasis is on applying Raku code to various important tasks and applications including data science, analytics, microservices, and desktop/console applications. There are also fun one-liner script recipes and instructions on how to create mini-languages of your very own.All in all, ... Read more

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Explore Raku problems and solutions using the latest version of the Raku programming language. In Raku Recipes, the emphasis is on applying Raku code to various important tasks and applications including data science, analytics, microservices, and desktop/console applications. There are also fun one-liner script recipes and instructions on how to create mini-languages of your very own.All in all,
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Options and Derivatives Programming in C++20

Algorithms and Programming Techniques for the Financial Industry

by Carlos Oliveira ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Master the features of C++ that are frequently used to write financial software for options and derivatives, including the STL, templates, functional programming, and numerical libraries. This book also covers new features introduced in C++20 and other recent standard releases: modules, concepts, spaceship operators, and smart pointers.You will explore how-to examples covering all the major tools ... Read more

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Master the features of C++ that are frequently used to write financial software for options and derivatives, including the STL, templates, functional programming, and numerical libraries. This book also covers new features introduced in C++20 and other recent standard releases: modules, concepts, spaceship operators, and smart pointers.You will explore how-to examples covering all the major tools
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Explainable, Trustworthy, and Responsible AI and Multi-Agent Systems

7th International Workshop, EXTRAAMAS 2025, Detroit, MI, USA, May 19–20, 2025, Revised Selected Papers

Edited by Davide Calvaresi, Amro Najjar, Andrea Omicini, Reyhan Aydogan, Rachele Carli, Giovanni Ciatto, Simona Tiribelli, Kary Främling ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Explainable and Transparent AI and Multi-Agent Systems, EXTRAAMAS 2025, held in Detroit, MI, USA, during May 19-20, 2025.The 12 full papers and 1 short paper included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 23 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: AI ... Read more

$66.23 CAD

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Explainable and Transparent AI and Multi-Agent Systems, EXTRAAMAS 2025, held in Detroit, MI, USA, during May 19-20, 2025.The 12 full papers and 1 short paper included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 23 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: AI
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E-Learning, E-Education, and Online Training

Second International Conference, eLEOT 2015, Novedrate, Italy, September 16-18, 2015, Revised Selected Papers

Edited by Alberto Bucciero, Carlos Vaz de Carvalho, Giovanni Vincenti ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the proceedings of the Second International Conference on E-Learning, E-Education, and Online Training, eLEOT 2015, held in Novedrate, Italy, in September 2015.The 26 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 submissions. They focus on e-learning and distance education in science, technology, engineering and math. ... Read more

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This book constitutes the proceedings of the Second International Conference on E-Learning, E-Education, and Online Training, eLEOT 2015, held in Novedrate, Italy, in September 2015.The 26 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 submissions. They focus on e-learning and distance education in science, technology, engineering and math.
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Quality of Synthetic Speech

Perceptual Dimensions, Influencing Factors, and Instrumental Assessment

by Florian Hinterleitner ...

Series series Engineering (R0)
This book reviews research towards perceptual quality dimensions of synthetic speech, compares these findings with the state of the art, and derives a set of five universal perceptual quality dimensions for TTS signals. They are: (i) naturalness of voice, (ii) prosodic quality, (iii) fluency and intelligibility, (iv) absence of disturbances, and (v) calmness. Moreover, a test protocol for the ... Read more

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This book reviews research towards perceptual quality dimensions of synthetic speech, compares these findings with the state of the art, and derives a set of five universal perceptual quality dimensions for TTS signals. They are: (i) naturalness of voice, (ii) prosodic quality, (iii) fluency and intelligibility, (iv) absence of disturbances, and (v) calmness. Moreover, a test protocol for the
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Design of Video Quality Metrics with Multi-Way Data Analysis

A data driven approach

by Christian Keimel ...

Series series Engineering (R0)
This book proposes a data-driven methodology using multi-way data analysis for the design of video-quality metrics. It also enables video- quality metrics to be created using arbitrary features. This data- driven design approach not only requires no detailed knowledge of the human visual system, but also allows a proper consideration of the temporal nature of video using a three-way prediction ... Read more

$104.48 CAD

This book proposes a data-driven methodology using multi-way data analysis for the design of video-quality metrics. It also enables video- quality metrics to be created using arbitrary features. This data- driven design approach not only requires no detailed knowledge of the human visual system, but also allows a proper consideration of the temporal nature of video using a three-way prediction
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Le Bon Sens de l'Interface

Manuel pratique d'utilisabilité

by Jean-Jacques Maine ...

Comment savoir si votre produit possède une interface véritablement intuitive et facile d'utilisation ?Ce livre propose une approche pragmatique et directe pour évaluer et améliorer l'ergonomie de vos conceptions. Qu'il s'agisse d'une application mobile, d'un logiciel de bureau complexe, d'une machine industrielle ou même d'un objet du quotidien, les principes d'interaction restent les mêmes.Loin ... Read more

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Comment savoir si votre produit possède une interface véritablement intuitive et facile d'utilisation ?Ce livre propose une approche pragmatique et directe pour évaluer et améliorer l'ergonomie de vos conceptions. Qu'il s'agisse d'une application mobile, d'un logiciel de bureau complexe, d'une machine industrielle ou même d'un objet du quotidien, les principes d'interaction restent les mêmes.Loin
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Haptics: Neuroscience, Devices, Modeling, and Applications

9th International Conference, EuroHaptics 2014, Versailles, France, June 24-26, 2014, Proceedings, Part II

Edited by Malika Auvray, Christian Duriez ...

Series Book 2 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
The two-volume set LNCS 8618 and 8619 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference EuroHaptics 2014, held in Versailles, France, in June 2014.The 118 papers (36 oral presentations and 82 poster presentations) presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 183 submissions. Furthermore, 27 demos were exhibited, each of them resulting in a short paper included in the ... Read more

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The two-volume set LNCS 8618 and 8619 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference EuroHaptics 2014, held in Versailles, France, in June 2014.The 118 papers (36 oral presentations and 82 poster presentations) presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 183 submissions. Furthermore, 27 demos were exhibited, each of them resulting in a short paper included in the
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