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Elements of Information Organization and Dissemination
Author Amitabha Chatterjee
Elements of Information Organization and Dissemination provides Information on how to organize and disseminate library and information science (LIS), a subject that is taught in many international Library Information Science university programs. While there are man....
Release Date 2016/11 -
The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive 3D Technology: Visualizing Quaternions
Author Andrew J. Hanson
Introduced 160 years ago as an attempt to generalize complex numbers to higher dimensions, quaternions are now recognized as one of the most important concepts in modern computer graphics. They offer a powerful way to represent rotations and compared to rotation mat....
Release Date 2006/01 -
Author Dominic Sweetman
See MIPS Run, Second Edition, is not only a thorough update of the first edition, it is also a marriage of the best-known RISC architecture--MIPS--with the best-known open-source OS--Linux. The first part of the book begins with MIPS design principles and then descr....
Release Date 2010/07 -
MEL Scripting for Maya Animators, 2nd Edition
Author Mark R. Wilkins , Chris Kazmier
Trying to learn Maya programming from the documentation can be daunting whether or not you are a programmer. The first edition of MEL Scripting for Maya Animators earned the reputation as the best introductory book on MEL, Maya’s scripting language. Now fully revise....
Release Date 2005/08 -
Verification Techniques for System-Level Design
Author Mukul Prasad , Indradeep Ghosh , Masahiro Fujita
This book will explain how to verify SoC (Systems on Chip) logic designs using “formal and “semiformal verification techniques. The critical issue to be addressed is whether the functionality of the design is the one that the designers intended. Simulation h....
Release Date 2010/07 -
Keeping Found Things Found: The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management
Author William Jones
Keeping Found Things Found: The Study and Practice of Personal Information Management is the first comprehensive book on new 'favorite child' of R&D at Microsoft and elsewhere, personal information management (PIM). It provides a comprehensive overview of PIM ....
Release Date 2010/07 -
Author William Albert , Thomas Tullis
Measuring the User Experience provides the first single source of practical information to enable usability professionals and product developers to effectively measure the usability of any product by choosing the right metric, applying it, and effectively using the ....
Release Date 2010/07 -
Author James Joshi , Prashant Krishnamurthy , David Tipper , Yi Qian
In today’s fast paced, infocentric environment, professionals increasingly rely on networked information technology to do business. Unfortunately, with the advent of such technology came new and complex problems that continue to threaten the availability, inte....
Release Date 2010/07 -
Information Modeling and Relational Databases, 2nd Edition
Author Tony Morgan , Terry Halpin
Information Modeling and Relational Databases, Second Edition, provides an introduction to ORM (Object-Role Modeling)and much more. In fact, it is the only book to go beyond introductory coverage and provide all of the in-depth instruction you need to transform know....
Release Date 2010/07 -
Building Intelligent Interactive Tutors
Author Beverly Park Woolf
Building Intelligent Interactive Tutors discusses educational systems that assess a student's knowledge and are adaptive to a student's learning needs.The impact of computers has not been generally felt in education due to lack of hardware, teacher training, and s....
Release Date 2010/07 -
Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design
Author Bill Buxton
Sketching User Experiences approaches design and design thinking as something distinct that needs to be better understood—by both designers and the people with whom they need to work— in order to achieve success with new products and systems. So while the focus is o....
Release Date 2010/07 -
Author Ron Zahavi , David M. Bridgeland
As business modeling becomes mainstream, every year more and more companies and government agencies are creating models of their businesses. But creating good business models is not a simple endeavor. Business modeling requires new skills. Written by two busin....
Release Date 2008/12 -
Partial-Update Adaptive Signal Processing
Author Kutluyil Dogancay
Partial-update adaptive signal processing algorithms not only permit significant complexity reduction in adaptive filter implementations, but can also improve adaptive filter performance in telecommunications applications. This book gives state-of-the-art meth....
Release Date 2008/09 -
Author Aravind Krishnaswamy , Gladimir G. Baranoski
Light and Skin Interactions immerses you in one of the most fascinating application areas of computer graphics: appearance simulation. The book first illuminates the fundamental biophysical processes that affect skin appearance, and reviews seminal related works aim....
Release Date 2010/03 -
Making Enterprise Information Management (EIM) Work for Business
Author John Ladley
Making Enterprise Information Management (EIM) Work for Business: A Guide to Understanding Information as an Asset provides a comprehensive discussion of EIM. It endeavors to explain information asset management and place it into a pragmatic, focused, and relevant l....
Release Date 2010/07 -
Up and Running with AutoCAD 2011
Author Elliot Gindis
Gindis introduces AutoCAD with step by step instructions, stripping away complexities to begin working in AutoCAD immediately. All concepts are explained first in theory, and then shown in practice, helping the reader understand what it is they are doing and why, ....
Release Date 2010/09 -
Thoughts on Interaction Design
Author Jon Kolko
Thoughts on Interaction Design explores the theory behind the field of Interaction Design in a new way. It aims to provide a better definition of Interaction Design that encompasses the intellectual facets of the field and the particular methods used by practi....
Release Date 2010/03 -
Thoughts on Interaction Design, 2nd Edition
Author Jon Kolko
Thoughts on Interaction Design, Second Edition, contemplates and contributes to the theory of Interaction Design by exploring the semantic connections that live between technology and form that are brought to life when someone uses a product. It defines Interaction ....
Release Date 2011/01 -
The Essential Persona Lifecycle: Your Guide to Building and Using Personas
Author John Pruitt , Tamara Adlin
The Essential Persona Lifecycle: Your Guide to Building and Using Personas offers a practical guide to the creation and use of personas, which can help product designers, their team, and their organization become more user focused. This book is for people who just n....
Release Date 2010/03 -
Information Visualization, 3rd Edition
Author Colin Ware
Most designers know that yellow text presented against a blue background reads clearly and easily, but how many can explain why, and what really are the best ways to help others and ourselves clearly see key patterns in a bunch of data? When we use software, access ....
Release Date 2012/05 -
Understanding Motion Capture for Computer Animation, 2nd Edition
Author Alberto Menache
Understanding Motion Capture for Computer Animation discusses the latest technology developments in digital design, film, games, medicine, sports, and security engineering. Motion capture records a live-motion event and translates it into a digital context. It is th....
Release Date 2011/01 -
Sketching User Experiences: The Workbook
Author Bill Buxton , Nicolai Marquardt , Sheelagh Carpendale , Saul Greenberg
Sketching Working Experience: The Workbook provides information about the step-by-step process of the different sketching techniques. It offers methods called design thinking, as a way to think as a user, and sketching, a way to think as a designer. User-exper....
Release Date 2011/11 -
Observing the User Experience, 2nd Edition
Author Andrea Moed , Mike Kuniavsky , Elizabeth Goodman
Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner’s Guide to User Research aims to bridge the gap between what digital companies think they know about their users and the actual user experience. Individuals engaged in digital product and service development often fail t....
Release Date 2012/09 -
Author Tomer Sharon
It’s Our Research: Getting Stakeholder Buy-in for User Experience Research Projects discusses frameworks, strategies, and techniques for working with stakeholders of user experience (UX) research in a way that ensures their buy-in. This book consists of six c....
Release Date 2012/03 -
Lifelong Learning for Engineers and Scientists in the Information Age
Author Caroline Smith , Hema Ramachandran , Ashok Naimpally
The book provides a comprehensive review of lifelong learning, information literacy and internships including assessment techniques for lifelong learning, teamwork and information literacy as defined by the ABET criteria. It also discusses critical thinking skills f....
Release Date 2011/12 -
Author Lee Montgomery
Explore Disney's 12 principles of animation, while learning how to animate in Maya. You can develop your own leading digital techniques rooted to traditional workflows. From squash and stretch to timing and appeal, you will enhance your creative toolset with strong....
Release Date 2012/08 -
Author Rex Hartson , Pardha S. Pyla
This is a comprehensive textbook on designing interaction to ensure a quality user experience. Combining breadth, depth, and practical applications, this book takes a time-tested process-and-guidelines approach that provides readers with actionable methods and techn....
Release Date 2012/01 -
Author Arnie Lund
User Experience Management: Essential Skills for Leading Effective UX Teams deals with specific issues associated with managing diverse user experience (UX) skills, often in corporations with a largely engineering culture. Part memoir and part handbook, it exp....
Release Date 2011/05 -
Design Research Through Practice
Author Stephan Wensveen , Johan Redstrom , Thomas Binder , John Zimmerman , Ilpo Koskinen
Design Research Through Practice: From the Lab, Field, and Showroom focuses on one type of contemporary design research known as constructive design research. It looks at three approaches to constructive design research: Lab, Field, and Showroom. The book shows how ....
Release Date 2011/09