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Deliberation, Representation, Equity

Research Approaches, Tools and Algorithms for Participatory Processes

by Love Ekenberg, Karin Hansson, Mats Danielson, Göran Cars, et al. ...

In democratic societies there is widespread acknowledgment of the need to incorporate citizens’ input in decision-making processes in more or less structured ways. But participatory decision making is balancing on the borders of inclusion, structure, precision and accuracy. To simply enable more participation will not yield enhanced democracy, and there is a clear need for more elaborated ... Read more

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In democratic societies there is widespread acknowledgment of the need to incorporate citizens’ input in decision-making processes in more or less structured ways. But participatory decision making is balancing on the borders of inclusion, structure, precision and accuracy. To simply enable more participation will not yield enhanced democracy, and there is a clear need for more elaborated
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The journey of her life? More like a nightmare… Café owner Mia Lindell has never dreamt of traveling. Yet here she is in Malaysia, far away from her home in sleepy Klippsund, Sweden. Ahead of her lies several months of traveling in Asia. She has brought a list of nine things to accomplish during the trip, found in a box of recipes at the café, written by her now dead step-mother Kerstin who ... Read more

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The journey of her life? More like a nightmare… Café owner Mia Lindell has never dreamt of traveling. Yet here she is in Malaysia, far away from her home in sleepy Klippsund, Sweden. Ahead of her lies several months of traveling in Asia. She has brought a list of nine things to accomplish during the trip, found in a box of recipes at the café, written by her now dead step-mother Kerstin who
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Letting Go of the Words

Writing Web Content that Works

by Janice (Ginny) Redish ...

Series series Interactive Technologies
Web site design and development continues to become more sophisticated. An important part of this maturity originates with well-laid-out and well-written content. Ginny Redish is a world-renowned expert on information design and how to produce clear writing in plain language for the web. All of the invaluable information that she shared in the first edition is included with numerous new examples. ... Read more

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Web site design and development continues to become more sophisticated. An important part of this maturity originates with well-laid-out and well-written content. Ginny Redish is a world-renowned expert on information design and how to produce clear writing in plain language for the web. All of the invaluable information that she shared in the first edition is included with numerous new examples.
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Designing Culture

The Technological Imagination at Work

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The renowned cultural theorist and media designer Anne Balsamo maintains that technology and culture are inseparable; those who engage in technological innovation are designing the cultures of the future. Designing Culture is a call for taking culture seriously in the design and development of innovative technologies. Balsamo contends that the wellspring of technological innovation is the ... Read more

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The renowned cultural theorist and media designer Anne Balsamo maintains that technology and culture are inseparable; those who engage in technological innovation are designing the cultures of the future. Designing Culture is a call for taking culture seriously in the design and development of innovative technologies. Balsamo contends that the wellspring of technological innovation is the
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UI is Communication

How to Design Intuitive, User Centered Interfaces by Focusing on Effective Communication

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User interface design is a challenging, multi-disciplinary activity that requires understanding a wide range of concepts and techniques that are often subjective and even conflicting. Imagine how much it would help if there were a single perspective that you could use to simplify these complex issues down to a small set of objective principles. In UI is Communication, Everett McKay explains how to ... Read more

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User interface design is a challenging, multi-disciplinary activity that requires understanding a wide range of concepts and techniques that are often subjective and even conflicting. Imagine how much it would help if there were a single perspective that you could use to simplify these complex issues down to a small set of objective principles. In UI is Communication, Everett McKay explains how to
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Web Application Design Handbook

Best Practices for Web-Based Software

by Susan Fowler, Victor Stanwick ...

Series series Interactive Technologies
The standards for usability and interaction design for Web sites and software are well known. While not everyone uses those standards, or uses them correctly, there is a large body of knowledge, best practice, and proven results in those fields, and a good education system for teaching professionals "how to." For the newer field of Web application design, however, designers are forced to reuse the ... Read more

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Data Scientists at Work

by Sebastian Gutierrez ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Data Scientists at Work is a collection of interviews with sixteen of the world's most influential and innovative data scientists from across the spectrum of this hot new profession. "Data scientist is the sexiest job in the 21st century," according to the Harvard Business Review. By 2018, the United States will experience a shortage of 190,000 skilled data scientists, according to a McKinsey ... Read more

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Data Scientists at Work is a collection of interviews with sixteen of the world's most influential and innovative data scientists from across the spectrum of this hot new profession. "Data scientist is the sexiest job in the 21st century," according to the Harvard Business Review. By 2018, the United States will experience a shortage of 190,000 skilled data scientists, according to a McKinsey
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OpenCV for Secret Agents

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About This BookBuild OpenCV apps for the desktop, the Raspberry Pi, Android, and the Unity game engineLearn real-time techniques that can be used to classify images, detecting and recognizing any person or animal, and studying motion and distance with superhuman precisionDesign hands-free interfaces that are practical in home automation, in cars, and in discrete surveillanceWho This Book Is ... Read more

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Interaction Design for Complex Problem Solving

Developing Useful and Usable Software

by Barbara Mirel ...

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Software for complex problem solving can dazzle people with advanced features and alluring visuals, but when actually put to use it often disappoints and even frustrates users. This software rarely follows the user's own work methods, nor does it give people the degree of control and choice that they truly need.This book presents a groundbreaking approach to interaction design for complex problem ... Read more

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Software for complex problem solving can dazzle people with advanced features and alluring visuals, but when actually put to use it often disappoints and even frustrates users. This software rarely follows the user's own work methods, nor does it give people the degree of control and choice that they truly need.This book presents a groundbreaking approach to interaction design for complex problem
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Learn Office the easy way, no jargon. Clear, concise and to the point. Using Office 2013 is the essential step by step guide to getting the most out of Microsoft Office traditional application (not SharePoint), providing a resource for both the beginner and the enthusiast.This book explores constructing professional looking documents; adding and using graphics and clipart; fonts, tables, graphs ... Read more

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Virtual Ascendance

Video Games and the Remaking of Reality

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From school lunchrooms to the White House press room, video games are an integral part of our popular culture, and the industry behind them touches all aspects of our lives, gamer and non-gamer alike. Business and entertainment, health and medicine, politics and war, social interaction and education, all fall under its influence.Virtual Ascendance tells the story of a formerly fringe enterprise ... Read more

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Freely available source code, with contributions from thousands of programmers around the world: this is the spirit of the software revolution known as Open Source. Open Source has grabbed the computer industry's attention. Netscape has opened the source code to Mozilla; IBM supports Apache; major database vendors haved ported their products to Linux. As enterprises realize the power of the open ... Read more

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