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Augmented Reality Law, Privacy, and Ethics
Author Brian Wassom
Augmented Reality (AR) is the blending of digital information in a real-world environment. A common example can be seen during any televised football game, in which information about the game is digitally overlaid on the field as the players move and position themse....
Release Date 2014/12 -
Understanding Your Users, 2nd Edition
Author Kelly Caine , Catherine Courage , Kathy Baxter
This new and completely updated edition is a comprehensive, easy-to-read, "how-to" guide on user research methods. You'll learn about many distinct user research methods and also pre- and post-method considerations such as recruiting, facilitating activities or mod....
Release Date 2015/05 -
Safeguarding Intangible Assets
Author Michael D. Moberly
Safeguarding Intangible Assets provides strategies for preserving and enhancing a company’s intangible assets to increase its profitability, competitiveness, and sustainability. Intangible assets such as patents, trademarks, copyrights, methodologies, and brand ty....
Release Date 2014/07 -
Author Paul Doncaster
The five-second test is one of the most convenient rapid UX testing methods available, although its value can be compromised by ignoring the restrictions of the method. The Five-Second Rules uses detailed examples from a collection of more than 300 tests to describe....
Release Date 2014/03 -
Improving the User Experience through Practical Data Analytics
Author Paul D. Berger , Mike Fritz
Improving the User Experience through Practical Data Analytics shows you how to make UX design decisions based on data—not hunches. Authors Fritz and Berger help the UX professional recognize the enormous potential of user data that is collected as a natural by-prod....
Release Date 2015/03 -
Handbook of Serial Communications Interfaces
Author Louis E. Frenzel
This book catalogs the most popular and commonly used serial-port interfaces and provides details on the specifications and the latest standards, enabling you to select an interface for a new design or verify that an interface is working correctly. Each chapter is b....
Release Date 2015/08 -
Author Hubert Kaeslin
Top-Down VLSI Design: From Architectures to Gate-Level Circuits and FPGAs represents a unique approach to learning digital design. Developed from more than 20 years teaching circuit design, Doctor Kaeslin’s approach follows the natural VLSI design flow and makes cir....
Release Date 2014/12 -
Author Zhiying Wang , Wei Shi , Mingche Lai , Libo Huang , Sheng Ma
Networks-on-Chip: From Implementations to Programming Paradigms provides a thorough and bottom-up exploration of the whole NoC design space in a coherent and uniform fashion, from low-level router, buffer and topology implementations, to routing and flow control sch....
Release Date 2014/12 -
Successful User Experience: Strategies and Roadmaps
Author Elizabeth Rosenzweig
Successful User Experience: Strategy and Roadmaps provides you with a hands-on guide for pulling all of the User Experience (UX) pieces together to create a strategy that includes tactics, tools, and methodologies. Leveraging material honed in user experience course....
Release Date 2015/08 -
Information Hiding in Speech Signals for Secure Communication
Author Zhijun Wu
In the digital world, the need to protect communications increases every day. While traditional digital encryption methods are useful, there are many other options for hiding your information. Information Hiding in Speech Signals for Secure Communication provides a ....
Release Date 2014/08 -
Cloud Data Centers and Cost Modeling
Author Rajkumar Buyya , Caesar Wu
Cloud Data Centers and Cost Modeling establishes a framework for strategic decision-makers to facilitate the development of cloud data centers. Just as building a house requires a clear understanding of the blueprints, architecture, and costs of the project; buildin....
Release Date 2015/02 -
Author Atif Memon
Since its first volume in 1960, Advances in Computers has presented detailed coverage of innovations in computer hardware, software, theory, design, and applications. It has also provided contributors with a medium in which they can explore their subjects in greater....
Release Date 2015/02 -
Ultra-high Voltage AC/DC Grids
Author Zhenya Liu
The UHV transmission has many advantages for new power networks due to its capacity, long distance potential, high efficiency, and low loss. Development of UHV transmission technology is led by infrastructure development and renewal, as well as smart grid developmen....
Release Date 2014/12 -
Author Ali Hurson
Since its first volume in 1960, Advances in Computers has presented detailed coverage of innovations in computer hardware, software, theory, design, and applications. It has also provided contributors with a medium in which they can explore their subjects in greater....
Release Date 2015/07 -
Quantifying the User Experience, 2nd Edition
Author James R Lewis , Jeff Sauro
Quantifying the User Experience: Practical Statistics for User Research, Second Edition, provides practitioners and researchers with the information they need to confidently quantify, qualify, and justify their data. The book presents a practical guide on how to u....
Release Date 2016/07 -
Thermofluid Modeling for Energy Efficiency Applications
Author N. M.S Hassan , M.M.K Khan
Thermofluid Modeling for Sustainable Energy Applications provides a collection of the most recent, cutting-edge developments in the application of fluid mechanics modeling to energy systems and energy efficient technology.Each chapter introduces relevant theories a....
Release Date 2015/09 -
Author Alberto Ferreira
Universal UX Design: Building Multicultural User Experience provides an ideal guide as multicultural UX continues to emerge as a transdisciplinary field that, in addition to the traditional UI and corporate strategy concerns, includes socio/cultural and neurocognit....
Release Date 2016/11 -
Solar Photovoltaic Technology Production
Author Tapas K. Mallick , David Benson , Senthilarasu Sundaram
Solar Photovoltaic Technology Production: Potential Environmental Impacts and Implications for Governance provides an overview of the emerging industrial PV sector, its technologies, and the regulatory frameworks supporting them. This new book reviews and categoriz....
Release Date 2016/06 -
Author Ibrahim Tarik Ozbolat
3D Bioprinting: Fundamentals, Principles and Applications provides the latest information on the fundamentals, principles, physics, and applications of 3D bioprinting. It contains descriptions of the various bioprinting processes and technologies used in additive b....
Release Date 2016/11 -
Author Marta Mrak , Rafal Mantiuk , Patrick Le Callet , Frédéric Dufaux
At the time of rapid technological progress and uptake of High Dynamic Range (HDR) video content in numerous sectors, this book provides an overview of the key supporting technologies, discusses the effectiveness of various techniques, reviews the initial standardi....
Release Date 2016/04 -
Author Charles Lambdin , Leo Frishberg
Everything you know about the future is wrong. Presumptive Design: Design Provocations for Innovation is for people “inventing the future: future products, services, companies, strategies and policies. It introduces a design-research method that shortens time to i....
Release Date 2015/09 -
Author Petros Nicopolitidis , Mohammad S Obaidat
Smart Cities and Homes: Key Enabling Technologies explores the fundamental principles and concepts of the key enabling technologies for smart cities and homes, disseminating the latest research and development efforts in the field through the use of numerous case st....
Release Date 2016/05 -
Usability Testing for Survey Research
Author Jennifer Romano Bergstrom , Emily Geisen
Usability Testing for Survey Research provides researchers with a guide to the tools necessary to evaluate, test, and modify surveys in an iterative method during the survey pretesting process. It includes examples that apply usability to any type of survey during ....
Release Date 2017/02 -
Author Lindy Ryan
Data is powerful. It separates leaders from laggards and it drives business disruption, transformation, and reinvention. Today’s most progressive companies are using the power of data to propel their industries into new areas of innovation, specialization, and opti....
Release Date 2016/03 -
Designing User Interfaces for an Aging Population
Author Kate Finn , Jeff Johnson
Designing User Interfaces for an Aging Population: Towards Universal Design presents age-friendly design guidelines that are well-established, agreed-upon, research-based, actionable, and applicable across a variety of modern technology platforms. The book offers g....
Release Date 2017/02 -
Modeling of Microscale Transport in Biological Processes
Author Sid Becker
Modeling of Microscale Transport in Biological Processes provides a compendium of recent advances in theoretical and computational modeling of biotransport phenomena at the microscale. The simulation strategies presented range from molecular to continuum models and....
Release Date 2016/12 -
Research Methods in Human-Computer Interaction, 2nd Edition
Author Harry Hochheiser , Jinjuan Heidi Feng , Jonathan Lazar
Research Methods in Human-Computer Interaction is a comprehensive guide to performing research and is essential reading for both quantitative and qualitative methods. Since the first edition was published in 2009, the book has been adopted for use at leading univer....
Release Date 2017/04 -
Lossless Information Hiding in Images
Author Shi-Ze Guo , Zhe-Ming Lu
Lossless Information Hiding in Images introduces many state-of-the-art lossless hiding schemes, most of which come from the authors' publications in the past five years. After reading this book, readers will be able to immediately grasp the status, the typical alg....
Release Date 2016/11 -
Research Methods for Cyber Security
Author David O. Manz , Thomas W. Edgar
Research Methods for Cyber Security teaches scientific methods for generating impactful knowledge, validating theories, and adding critical rigor to the cyber security field. This book shows how to develop a research plan, beginning by starting research with a ques....
Release Date 2017/04 -
Adaptive Learning Methods for Nonlinear System Modeling
Author Jose C. Principe , Danilo Comminiello
Adaptive Learning Methods for Nonlinear System Modeling presents some of the recent advances on adaptive algorithms and machine learning methods designed for nonlinear system modeling and identification. Real-life problems always entail a certain degree of nonlinea....
Release Date 2018/06