Human–computer interaction

This book presents a number of new methods, tools, and approaches aimed to assist researchers and designers during the early stages of the design process, focusing on the need to approach the development of new interactive products, systems and related services by closely observing the needs of potential end-users through adopting a design thinking approach.

This book contains revisedpapers from the 17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, ICEIS 2015, held in Barcelona, Spain, in April 2015.

This textbook raises thought-provoking questions regarding our rapidly-evolving computing technologies, highlighting the need for a strong ethical framework in our computer science education.

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the5th International Conference on Serious Games, Interaction, andSimulation, held in Novedrate, Italy, in September 2015.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 7thInternational Conference on Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services(MobiCASE 2015) held in Berlin, Germany, in November 2015.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the SecondInternational Conference on E-Learning, E-Education, and Online Training, eLEOT2015, held in Novedrate, Italy, in September 2015.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of theFirst International Rapid Mashup Challenge, RMC 2015, held on June 23, 2015, inRotterdam, The Netherlands, in conjunction with the 15th International Conferenceon Web Engineering, ICWE 2015.

This bookcombines work from curators, digital artists, human computer interactionresearchers and computer scientists to examine the mutual benefits andchallenges posed when working together to support digital art works in theirmany forms.

This book is the Proceedings of the 19th Annual RoboCup International Symposium, held in Hefei, China, in July 2015.

This book focuses on the importance of adaptation and personalization in today's society and the upgraded role computational systems and the Internet play in our day-to-day activities.

This book explores the various categories of speech variation and works to draw a line between linguistic and paralinguistic phenomenon of speech.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereedpost-conference proceedings of the First COST Action IC1302 InternationalKEYSTONE Conference on semantic Keyword-based Search on Structured Data Sources,IKC 2015, held in Coimbra, Portugal, in September 2015.

The two volume set LNCS 9474 and LNCS 9475 constitutesthe refereed proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on VisualComputing, ISVC 2015, held in Las Vegas, NV, USA in December 2015.

The two volume set LNCS 9474 and LNCS 9475 constitutesthe refereed proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on VisualComputing, ISVC 2015, held in Las Vegas, NV, USA in December 2015.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereedproceedings of the International Conference on Communication Technologies forAgeing Well and e-Health, ICT4AgeingWell 2015, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in May2015.

User Engagement (UE) is a complex concept to investigate.

This bookconstitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on SocialInformatics, SocInfo 2015, held in Beijing, China, in December 2015.

This book reports on an outstanding thesis thathas significantly advanced the state-of-the-art in the automated analysis andclassification of speech and music.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 4th IFIP WG 13.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th InternationalConference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2015, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in November/December 2015.

This book summarizes various approaches for theautomatic detection of health threats to older patients at home living alone.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Work-Conference on Ambient Assisted Living, IWAAL 2015, held in Puerto Varas, Chile, in December 2015.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence, UCAmI 2015, held in Puerto Varas, Chile, in December 2015.

The book presents the proceedings of Rob/Arch 2016, the third international conference on robotic fabrication in architecture, art, and design.

This book is a timely report on current neurotechnology research.

This book discusses the Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) framework applied in dialogue systems.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Ambient Intelligence, AmI 2015, held in Athens, Greece, in November 2015.

This book includes a short history of interactive narrative and an account of a small group collaboratively authored social media narrative: Romeo and Juliet on Facebook: After Love Comes Destruction.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Advances in Visual Informatics, IVIC 2015, held in Bangi, Malaysia, in November 2015.

This brief will explore topics in computer science through the lens of Two Bit Circus, an engineering entertainment company based out of downtown Los Angeles.

This book presents a new type of modeling environment where users interact with geospatial simulations using 3D physical models of studied landscapes.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer Supported Education, CSEDU 2014, held in Barcelona, Spain, in April 2014.

This book looks at the common problems both human and robotic hands encounter when controlling the large number of joints, actuators and sensors required to efficiently perform motor tasks such as object exploration, manipulation and grasping.

This book critically reflects on current statistical methods used in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and introduces a number of novel methods to the reader.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereedpost-workshop proceedings of two workshops held at the International Conferenceon Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2015, held in Pavia, Italy, inJune 2015: the 7th International Workshop on Knowledge Representation forHealth Care, KR4HC 2015, and the 8th International Workshop on Process-orientedInformation Systems in Healthcare, ProHealth 2015.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th InternationalConference on Mobile and Contextual Learning, mLearn 2015, held in a cruiseship leaving from and arriving to Venice, Italy, in October 2015.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2015, held in Paris, France, in October 2015.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 18thInternational Conference on Principles and Practice of Multi-Agent Systems,PRIMA 2015, held in Bertinoro, Italy, in October 2015.

This work addresses the challenge of providing effective cutaneous haptic feedback in robotic teleoperation, with the objective of achieving the highest degree of transparency whilst guaranteeing the stability of the considered systems.

This book describes ten of the most promising brain-computer-interface (BCI) projects to have emerged in recent years.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Dynamic Data-Driven Environmental Systems Science, DyDESS 2014, held in Cambridge, MA, USA, in November 2014.

It is predicted that robots will surpass human intelligence within the next fifty years.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Symbiotic Interaction, Symbiotic 2015, held in Berlin, Germany, in October 2015.

This book reports on the latest technological and clinical advances in the field of neurorehabilitation.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the14th International Conference on Entertainment Computing, ICEC 2015, held inTrondheim, Norway, in September/October 2015.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning Research and Development, ICCBR 2015, held in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in September 2015.

The book discusses novel visualization techniques driven by the needs in medicine and life sciences as well as new application areas and challenges for visualization within these fields.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 38th Annual German Conference on Artificial Intelligence, KI 2015, held in Dresden, Germany, in September 2015.

We have always built tools to improve our productivity and help us lead better lives; however we find ourselves constantly battling against our new computerized tools, making us less productive and putting our health and our lives at risk.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, A*IA 2015, held in Ferrara, Italy, in September 2015.