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  • Special Educational Needs and the Internetby Chris Abbott

    Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 51.95

    With Internet access for every school now a reality, teachers are beginning to explore the use of the Internet in the education of children with special needs. This book describes its benefits for children across the spectrum of special educational needs, from those with physical disabilities or sensory impairment to those with learning or social difficulties.... more...

  • Blown to Bitsby Hal Abelson; Ken Ledeen; Harry Lewis

    Pearson Education 2008; US$ 24.99

    Every day, billions of photographs, news stories, songs, X-rays, TV shows, phone calls, and emails are being scattered around the world as sequences of zeroes and ones: bits. We can?t escape this explosion of digital information and few of us want to?the benefits are too seductive. The technology has enabled unprecedented innovation, collaboration,... more...

  • Artificial Knowingby Alison Adam

    Taylor and Francis 1998; US$ 45.95

    Artificial Knowing challenges the masculine slant in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) view of the world. Alison Adam admirably fills the large gap in science and technology studies by showing us that gender bias is inscribed in AI-based computer systems. Her treatment of feminist epistemology, focusing on the ideas of the knowing subject, the nature... more...

  • Gender, Ethics and Information Technologyby Dr Alison Adam

    Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 115.00

    This book brings feminist philosophy, in the shape of feminist ethics, politics and legal theory, to an analysis of computer ethics problems including hacking, privacy, surveillance, cyberstalking and Internet dating. Adam claims that these issues cannot be properly understood unless we see them as problems relating to gender. For the first time, these... more...

  • Virtual Genderby Alison Adam; Eileen Green

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 65.95

    As yet there has been relatively little published on women's activities in relation to new digital technologies. Virtual Gender brings together theoretical perspectives from feminist theory, the sociology of technology and gender studies with well designed empirical studies to throw new light on the impact of ICTs on contemporary social life. A line-up... more...

  • Usabilityby Paul S. Adler; Terry A. Winograd

    Oxford University Press 1992; US$ 224.99

    As more and more equipment incorporates advanced technologies, usability -- the ability of equipment to take advantage of users' skills and thereby to function effectively in the broad range of real work situations -- is becoming an essential component of equipment design. Usability: Turning Technologies into Tools collects six essays that herald a... more...

  • The Virtual Selfby Ben Agger

    Wiley 2008; US$ 134.95

    The Virtual Self is an engaging and exciting text that addresses issues relating to our rapidly changing society, social structure, and communication needs. In doing so, it addresses major issues in sociology that inform virtually all of a student’s course work. Introduces students to concepts of the self and society in an age of rapid technology... more...

  • Human-Centric Interfaces for Ambient Intelligenceby Hamid Aghajan; Juan Carlos Augusto; Ramon Lopez-Cozar Delgado

    Elsevier Science 2009; US$ 138.95

    To create truly effective human-centric ambient intelligence systems both engineering and computing methods are needed. This is the first book to bridge data processing and intelligent reasoning methods for the creation of human-centered ambient intelligence systems. Interdisciplinary in nature, the book covers topics such as multi-modal interfaces,... more...

  • Computation and Human Experienceby Philip E. Agre

    Cambridge University Press 1997; US$ 44.00

    This book offers a critical reconstruction of the fundamental ideas and methods of artificial intelligence research. more...

  • Visualization of Time-Oriented Databy Wolfgang Aigner; Silvia Miksch; Heidrun Schumann; Christian Tominski

    Springer 2011; US$ 99.99

    Time is an exceptional dimension that is common to many application domains such as medicine, engineering, business, science, biography, history, planning, or project management. Understanding time-oriented data enables us to learn from the past in order to predict, plan, and build the future. Due to the distinct characteristics of time, appropriate... more...