ECSCW 2015: Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 19-23 September 2015, Oslo, Norway
ECSCW 2015: Proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 19-23 September 2015, Oslo, Norway

Author: Nina Boulus-Rødje

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-08-29

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 3319204998

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This volume presents the proceedings of ECSCW 2015, the 14th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, organized by the University of Oslo, Norway. The conference provides a venue for exploring novel, open and critical approaches to the multidisciplinary nature of social and collaborative technologies and work practices, critically reviewing new and established theories and research, forever committed to high scientific standards, both theoretical and methodological. These proceedings consist of 14 full and 3 exploratory papers, which reflect the lively debate currently ongoing within the CSCW field, focusing on work and enterprise and the challenges of involving various types of people like citizens, patients and software developers into collaborative settings. The blurring boundaries between home and work are explored and recent and emergent new technologies supporting collaborative work are introduced. With contributions from all over the world, the chapters provide interesting perspectives, helping to focus the European perspective within the CSCW community. This collection will be of interest to researchers and practitioners alike as it combines an understanding of the nature of technology within both the workplace and wider society

Anticipating Future Environments
Anticipating Future Environments

Author: Shana Lee Hirsch

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Published: 2020-07-16

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 029574748X

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Drought. Wildfire. Extreme flooding. How does climate change affect the daily work of scientists? Ecological restoration is often premised on the idea of returning a region to an earlier, healthier state. Yet the effects of climate change undercut that premise and challenge the ways scientists can work, destabilizing the idea of “normalcy” and revealing the politics that shape what scientists can do. How can the practice of ecological restoration shift to anticipate an increasingly dynamic future? And how does a scientific field itself adapt to climate change? Restoration efforts in the Columbia River Basin—a vast and diverse landscape experiencing warming waters, less snowpack, and greater fluctuations in precipitation—may offer answers to some of these questions. Shana Hirsch tells the story of restoration science in the basin, surveying its past and detailing the work of today’s salmon habitat restoration efforts. Her analysis offers critical insight into scientific practices, emerging approaches and ways of thinking, the incorporation of future climate change scenarios into planning, and the ultimate transformation—or adaptation—of the science of ecological restoration. For scientists and environmental managers around the globe, Anticipating Future Environments will shed light on how to more effectively cope with climate change.

Music and Human-Computer Interaction
Music and Human-Computer Interaction

Author: Simon Holland

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-03-12

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 1447129903

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This agenda-setting book presents state of the art research in Music and Human-Computer Interaction (also known as ‘Music Interaction’). Music Interaction research is at an exciting and formative stage. Topics discussed include interactive music systems, digital and virtual musical instruments, theories, methodologies and technologies for Music Interaction. Musical activities covered include composition, performance, improvisation, analysis, live coding, and collaborative music making. Innovative approaches to existing musical activities are explored, as well as tools that make new kinds of musical activity possible. Music and Human-Computer Interaction is stimulating reading for professionals and enthusiasts alike: researchers, musicians, interactive music system designers, music software developers, educators, and those seeking deeper involvement in music interaction. It presents the very latest research, discusses fundamental ideas, and identifies key issues and directions for future work.

Cooperative Work and Coordinative Practices
Cooperative Work and Coordinative Practices

Author: Kjeld Schmidt

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2011-01-27

Total Pages: 471

ISBN-13: 1848000685

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Information technology has been used in organisational settings and for organisational purposes such as accounting, for a half century, but IT is now increasingly being used for the purposes of mediating and regulating complex activities in which multiple professional users are involved, such as in factories, hospitals, architectural offices, and so on. The economic importance of such coordination systems is enormous but their design often inadequate. The problem is that our understanding of the coordinative practices for which these systems are developed is deficient, leaving systems developers and software engineers to base their designs on commonsensical requirements analyses. The research reflected in this book addresses these very problems. It is a collection of articles which establish a conceptual foundation for the research area of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work.

Citizen’s Right to the Digital City
Citizen’s Right to the Digital City

Author: Marcus Foth

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-12-29

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 9812879196

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Edited by thought leaders in the fields of urban informatics and urban interaction design, this book brings together case studies and examples from around the world to discuss the role that urban interfaces, citizen action, and city making play in the quest to create and maintain not only secure and resilient, but productive, sustainable and viable urban environments. The book debates the impact of these trends on theory, policy and practice. The individual chapters are based on blind peer reviewed contributions by leading researchers working at the intersection of the social / cultural, technical / digital, and physical / spatial domains of urbanism scholarship. The book will appeal not only to researchers and students, but also to a vast number of practitioners in the private and public sector interested in accessible content that clearly and rigorously analyses the potential offered by urban interfaces, mobile technology, and location-based services in the context of engaging people with open, smart and participatory urban environments.

Communication and Power Engineering
Communication and Power Engineering

Author: R. Rajesh

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2017-02-06

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 311046960X

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Communication and Power Engineering are the proceedings of the joint International conferences organized by IDES in the year 2016. The aim of these conference proceedings is to bringing together the researchers, scientists, engineers, and scholar students in all areas of Computer Science, Power Engineering, Electrical & Electronics and provides an international forum for the dissemination of original research results, new ideas and practical development experiences, focused on both theory and practices. The conference deals with the frontier topics in the Computer Science, Electrical and Electronics Engineering subjects. The Institute of Doctors Engineers and Scientists - IDES is formed to promote, and organize technical research Meetings, Conference, Discussions, Seminars, Workshops, Study tours, Industry visits; and to publish professional Journals, Magazines and Newsletters; and to carry on research and development on the above fields; and to research, design, and develop products or materials and projects. There are total 35 research papers included in this book covering all the frontier topics in Computer Science, Electrical and Electronics Engineering subjects. The authors of each chapter are researchers from various universities. Contents: Foreword Handwritten Script Identification from Text Lines A Rule based Approach for Noun Phrase Extraction from English Text Document Recommending Investors using Association Rule Mining for Crowd Funding Projects Colour Texture Classification Using Anisotropic Diffusion and Wavelet Transform Competitive Advantage of using Differential Evolution Algorithm for Software Effort Estimation Comparative Analysis of Cepstral analysis and Autocorrelation Method for Gender Classification A Simulative Study on Effects of Sensing Parameters on Cognitive Radio’s Performance Analysis of Cyclotomic Fast Fourier Transform by Gate level Delay Method Dynamic Resource Allocation in Next Generation Networks using FARIMA Time Series Model Classification of Mimetite Spectral Signatures using Orthogonal Subspace Projection with Complex Wavelet Filter Bank based Dimensionality Reduction An Illumination Invariant Face Recognition Approach based on Fourier Spectrum Optimal Load Frequency Controller for a Deregulated Reheat Thermal Power System Design and Implementation of a Heuristic Approximation Algorithm for Multicast Routing in Optical Networks Infrastructure Management Services Toolkit A Novel Approach for Residential Society Maintenance Problem for Better Human Life Smart Suspect Vehicle Surveillance System Formal Performance Analysis of Web Servers using an SMT Solver and a Web Framework Modified GCC Compiler Pass for Thread-Level Speculation by Modifying the Window Size using Openmp Overview and Evaluation of an IoT Product for Application Development A TCP in CR-MANET with Unstable Bandwidth Impact of Digital Ecosystem on Business Environment A Two-Factor Single Use Password Scheme Design & Implementation of Wireless System for Cochlear Devices Software Code Clone Detection and Removal using Program Dependence Graphs Social Sentimental Analytics using Big Data Tools Predicting Flight Delay using ANN with Multi-core Map Reduce Framework New Network Overlay Solution for Complete Networking Virtualization Review upon Distributed Facts Hard Drive Schemes throughout Wireless Sensor Communities Detection of Rapid Eye Movement Behaviour Sleep Disorder using Time and Frequency Analysis of EEG Signal Applied on C4-A1 Channel Analysis of PV/ WIND/ FUEL CELL Hybrid System Interconnected With Electrical Utility Grid Analysis of Wind Speed Prediction Technique by hybrid Weibull-ANN Model An efficient FPGA Implementation of DES and Triple-DES Encryption Systems A Novelty Comparison of Power with Assorted Parameters of a Horizontal Wind Axis Turbine for NACA 5512 Retaliation based Enhanced Weighted Clustering Algorithm for Mobile Ad-hoc Network (R-EWCA) Chest CT Scans Screening of COPD based Fuzzy Rule Classifier Approach Author Index

Advances in E-Engineering and Digital Enterprise Technology
Advances in E-Engineering and Digital Enterprise Technology

Author: Kai Cheng

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2004-10-15

Total Pages: 638

ISBN-13: 9781860584671

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e-Engineering and digital enterprise technology are becoming the catalysts and prime enablers for the most radical changes in industry since the industrial revolution. Advances in e-Engineering and Digital Enterprise Technology includes international papers from experts and practitioners in industry and academia providing an information exchange on all aspects of engineering and management. Providing significant contributions from practitioners , researchers, educators, and end-users, the reader will find information on the latest innovations and techniques, including, e-Engineering systems e-supply chains and e-logistics Web based CAD/CAM/CAPP Virtual and collaborative engineering Web based modelling and simulations Mass customization and customer driven engineering Tele-operation and tele-robotics. On-line education and industrial training Vital reading for leading-edge system developers, researchers, innovators, and early adopters within industry, government, and academia who are in search of excellence.

Social Media and Civic Engagement
Social Media and Civic Engagement

Author: Scott P. Robertson

Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers

Published: 2018-05-24

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13: 1681733471

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Social media platforms are the latest manifestation in a series of sociotechnical innovations designed to enhance civic engagement, political participation, and global activism. While many researchers started out as optimists about the promise of social media for broadening participation and enhancing civic engagement, recent events have tempered that optimism. As this book goes to press, Facebook is fighting a battle over the massive disclosure of user information during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, social analytics company Cambridge Analytica is being revealed as a major player in micro profiling voters in that same election, bots and fake news factories are undermining democratic discourse via social media worldwide, and the president of the United States is unnerving the world as a stream-of-consciousness Twitter user. This book is a foundational review of current research on social media and civic engagement organized in terms of history, theory, practice, and challenges. History reviews how researchers and developers have continuously pushed the envelope to explore technology enhancements for political and social discourse. Theory reveals that the use of globally-networked social technologies touches many fields including political science, sociology, psychology, media studies, network science, and more. Practice is examined through studies of political engagement both in democratic situations and in confrontational situations. Challenges are identified in order to find ways forward. For better or worse, social media for civic engagement has come of age. Citizens, politicians, and activists are utilizing social media in innovative ways, while bad actors are discovering possibilities for spreading dissension and undermining trust. We are at a sobering inflection point, and this book is your foundation for understanding how we got here and where we are going.

Data Engineering and Intelligent Computing
Data Engineering and Intelligent Computing

Author: Suresh Chandra Satapathy

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-05-31

Total Pages: 660

ISBN-13: 9811032238

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The book is a compilation of high-quality scientific papers presented at the 3rd International Conference on Computer & Communication Technologies (IC3T 2016). The individual papers address cutting-edge technologies and applications of soft computing, artificial intelligence and communication. In addition, a variety of further topics are discussed, which include data mining, machine intelligence, fuzzy computing, sensor networks, signal and image processing, human-computer interaction, web intelligence, etc. As such, it offers readers a valuable and unique resource.