This book provides an overview of leading-edge developments in the field of human-computer interaction. It includes contributions from many of the key areas that are influencing our use of computers. Highlights include sections on speech technology, on interaction with mobile and hand-held computers, on e-business, on web-based systems, on virtual reality and haptic interfaces. Furthermore the book includes chapters on E-Business, data mining and databases, mobile systems, speech, viewing the web, next generation office systems, novel ineteraction, accessibility, interruptions and coordination, design patterns, healthcare informatics, haptics, design techniques, remote interaction and evaluation, search, programming environments, 3D and virtual environments, social psychology and contextual design, learning, evaluation tools and communities and language. Today one of the most written and spoken impacts of computing and IT is communication and the easy accessibility for information. Geography is no longer a constraint. With these advances in first and second world nations, and slower introduction to the third world, an enlarging proportion of the world population is encountering computer based systems. This brings a changing basis of approach, as issues such as cultural, political and economic differences must be accommodated in ways that have not existed before. HCI researchers and practitioners have a responsibility to propose scientifically, socially and environmentally sustainable solutions that will help ease the burden that current new technologies impose on people and organisations. The goal must be to achieve benefit from technological advances, for it should match the skills, needs and expectations of the users of such technologies.

Human-Computer Interaction-INTERACT '99

Computers & Technology

M.A.

JOHNSON

C***

Sasse

Games & Strategy Guides

IOS Press

This book addresses the relationship of citizenship and public management in Europe. After fifteen years of State reform, it is time for an overall discussion of the theoretical and empirical impact and limits of New Public Management, as one of the latest re-orientations in public administration, on the practice of citizenship. All the authors have pointed out the tension between a focus on improvement of state bureaucracies, on the one hand, and the involvement of citizens in the co-production of policies on the other. They point to a fundamental change that is taking place: the importance of state apparatuses for the development and sustainability of viable societies is being de-emphasised and special attention to "governance" is now taking over the central place, that for so long has been occupied by attention to "government". Through the co-production of public policies by citizens and public authorities working together, a new civil society is emerging. This book highlights the fact that the re-invention of the citizen is of crucial importance to public administrative practice, as well as to the various public administration disciplines in Europe.

Citizens and the New Governance - Beyond New Public Management (Studies in Health Technology and Informatics,)

Business & Money

The use of Knowledge Engineering and Agent Technology (KEAT) for application development is now recognised as an alternative to conventional software techniques in many application domains. From the background of the IFIP IT&KNOWS conference held in late 1998, this rather unique volume aims to discuss the current role and the perspectives of domain models and corresponding reasoning processes in the different application fields under a common perspective to create conceptual bases and methods to develop and to improve the use of this type of approach in the context of information technology.IOS Press is an international science, technical and medical publisher of high-quality books for academics, scientists, and professionals in all fields.  Some of the areas we publish in: -Biomedicine -Oncology -Artificial intelligence -Databases and information systems -Maritime engineering -Nanotechnology -Geoengineering -All aspects of physics -E-governance -E-commerce -The knowledge economy -Urban studies -Arms control -Understanding and responding to terrorism -Medical informatics -Computer Sciences

Knowledge Engineering and Agent Technology (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, 52)

J. Cuena

Computer Science

IOS Press is an international science, technical and medical publisher of high-quality books for academics, scientists, and professionals in all fields.  Some of the areas we publish in: -Biomedicine -Oncology -Artificial intelligence -Databases and information systems -Maritime engineering -Nanotechnology -Geoengineering -All aspects of physics -E-governance -E-commerce -The knowledge economy -Urban studies -Arms control -Understanding and responding to terrorism -Medical informatics -Computer Sciences

Assistive Technology on the Threshold of the New Millennium AAATE 99, 5th European Conference for the Advancement of Assistive Technology (Assistive Technology Research Series)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Bühler

Knops

Exercise & Fitness

One of the goals for the proposed book is to bring together leading experts in the world working in multidisciplinary areas including epidemiology, biomechanics, experimental and analytical research, physical modeling, and clinical aspects of whiplash injury. The contributing authors have submitted chapters in their area of expertise. 39 Chapters are included that cover the above aspects.Contributions by the federal government, industry, health care professionals, academic researchers, and various experts from the United States and abroad are included.

Frontiers in Whiplash Trauma: Clinical and Biomechanical (Biomedical and Health Research,)

Medical Books

Medicine

During the 45 years of communist regimes in Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, agriculture was centrally directed without regard of quality factors and market needs, and was heavily subsidized. Democratization of the countries and adoption of market driven economies, including agriculture, created conditions that require new thinking and approaches to find market areas that will fill the needs of each country, and provide produce that is not redundant for the Common Market. The aim of this book is to facilitate solving common agricultural problems using the tools of biotechnology. The book addresses five themes: Plant Transformations, Plant Genomics, Breeding Plants for Resistance and Legal Aspects of Biotechnology, including risk assessment. Some specific topics dealt with are: The way from fundamental research to start-up company, Crop improvement by transgenic technology; Strategies for improving resistance; Current procedures for applying risk assessment in genetically modified crops; Questions arising from the implementation of the Hungarian gene technology law; Public perception and legislation of Biotechnology in Poland.

Use of Agriculturally Important Genes in Biotechnology (Studies in Health Technology and Informatics,)

Science & Math

Hrazdina, G.

Biological Sciences

This book deals with novel scientific and technology research in Pattern Recognition and Applications. It presents a selection of papers that summarises the main research activities in these areas developed in Spanish research centres. It includes thirty-one works organized into four categories reflecting the present areas of interest in the Spanish Pattern Recognition Community: * Pattern Recognition: this Section includes new approaches related to classical pattern classification problems and methodologies like multi-edit algorithm, gradient-descent methods, hierarchical clustering, nearest neighbours rule, tree language compression, function described graphs, etc. * Computer Vision: this Section presents new methods in colour segmentation, visual tracking, alignment in 3D reconstruction, trademark search techniques, visual behaviours for binocular navigation and active vision systems. * Speech Recognition and Translation: this Section consists of five papers related to continuous speech recognition and statistical translation. They include new proposals in acoustic and language models, based on Connectionist and Syntactic Pattern Recognition approaches.* Applications in Computer Vision, Speech Recognition and Translation: this Section deals with digital TV, biomedical images, mammography, trabecular bone patterns and new calibration methods for large surface topography. These papers are a good summary of the Spanish research in the fields of Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, as well as in their Applications.

Pattern Recognition and Applications (Texas A & M University Military History Series)

This book is dedicated to the theory and applications of Intelligent Systems. Research and development work in Intelligent Systems area is growing rapidly due to many successful applications of these new techniques in very diverse problems. "Intelligent Systems and Techniques" cover many fields such as neural networks, (adaptive) fuzzy logic, evolutionary computing and their hybrids and derivatives. This book is to provide highlights of the current research in Intelligent Systems area. It consists of research papers in the fields of Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, Genetic Algorithms and Evolutionary Computing, Knowledge Acquisition and Knowledge Discovery, Intelligent Agents, Image Processing, Robotics and Automation, Speech Recognition, Signal Processing and Control, Data Mining and Information Retrieval, Case-based Reasoning and Clustering.

Advances in Intelligent Systems: Theory and Applications (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications)

This international comparative study of the Ombudsman institution began life in March 1994 when Philip Giddings and Roy Gregory formed the idea of producing a successor to Gerald Caiden's International Handbook of the Ombudsman [1983]. In the decade and a half since Caiden's volume was produced, there has been a considerable expansion of the number and variety of Ombudsman institutions. With the generous assistance of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences [IIAS] we were able to assemble a team of experts, containing academics and practitioners, public lawyers, political scientists and administrators, drawn from a wide range of states and reflecting many different systems, cultures and experiences. Most members of the team were able to meet at three IIAS-sponsored consultations held in Brussels in 1996, 1997 and 1998 at which we debated and refined our strategy and methodology and reflected upon our findings. From these meetings an agreed framework was drawn up for the reports to be included in this volume and those reports, together with thematic chapters on issues such as human rights and the new public management, form the heart of this book.

Righting Wrongs (International Institute of Administrative Sciences Monograph)

International

IOS Press is an international science, technical and medical publisher of high-quality books for academics, scientists, and professionals in all fields. 
 Some of the areas we publish in:
 -Biomedicine -Oncology -Artificial intelligence -Databases and information systems -Maritime engineering -Nanotechnology -Geoengineering -All aspects of physics -E-governance -E-commerce -The knowledge economy -Urban studies -Arms control -Understanding and responding to terrorism -Medical informatics -Computer Sciences

The Challenge of Change for Judicial Systems: Developing a Public Administration Perspective (International Institute of Administrative Sciences Monograph) (English and French Edition)

P.M.

Fabri

Langbroek

Foreign & International Law

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