Digital and information technologies: social and ethical aspects

The information infrastructure - comprising computers, embedded devices, networks and software systems - is vital to day-to-day operations in every sector: information and telecommunications, banking and finance, energy, chemicals and hazardous materials, agriculture, food, water, public health, emergency services, transportation, postal and shipping, government and defense.

This book features a selection of thoroughly refereed papers presented at two subconferences of the IFIP TC 3 Conference on Key Competencies in Informatics and Information and Communication Technologies: the IFIP WG 3.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP WG 8.

This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 13th IFIP WG 6.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th IFIP TC 9 International Conference on Human Choice and Computers, HCC11 2014, held in Turku, Finland, in July/August 2014.

Digital forensics deals with the acquisition, preservation, examination, analysis and presentation of electronic evidence.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th IFIP WG 11.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP WG 8.

This book contains a range of keynote papers and submitted papers presented at the 7th IFIP WG 9.

The information infrastructure - comprising computers, embedded devices, networks and software systems - is vital to day-to-day operations in every sector: information and telecommunications, banking and finance, energy, chemicals and hazardous materials, agriculture, food, water, public health, emergency services, transportation, postal and shipping, government and defense.

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

Digital forensics deals with the acquisition, preservation, examination, analysis and presentation of electronic evidence.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 9th European Workshop, EuroPKI 2012, held in Pisa, Italy, in September 2012.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International IFIP WG 2.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th IFIP TC 11 International Information Security and Privacy Conference, SEC 2013, held in Auckland, New Zealand, in July 2013.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP WG 8.

This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the 10th IFIP WG 3.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th IFIP WG 11.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed joint post proceedings of two international workshops, the 6th International Workshop on Data Privacy Management, DPM 2011, and the 4th International Workshop on Autonomous and Spontaneous Security, SETOP 2011, held in Leuven, Belgium, in September 2011.

Communications: Wireless in Developing Countries and Networks of the Future The present book contains the proceedings of two conferences held at the World Computer Congress 2010 in Brisbane, Australia (September 20-23) organized by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP): the Third IFIP TC 6 Int- national Conference on Wireless Communications and Information Technology for Developing Countries (WCITD 2010) and the IFIP TC 6 International Network of the Future Conference (NF 2010).

Digital Homecare is a collection of services to deliver, maintain and improve care in the home environment using the latest ICT technology and devices.

This volume comprises papers from the following ?

"e;A fascinating insight into potentially one of the most exciting developments that affects each and every one of us as we move forward into the 21st Century.

Designing Collaborative Systems: A Practical Guide to Ethnography introduces a new 'ethnographic' approach that will enable designers to create collaborative and interactive systems, which are employed successfully in real-world settings.

Modern society has been transformed by the digital convergence towards a future where technologies embed themselves into the fabric of everyday life.

In the future, everyday life in traffic will be intricately meshed with city life.

COOP 2010 is the 9th edition of the International Conference on Designing Cooperative Systems, being the second European conference in the field of Computer Supported Cooperative Work after ECSCW.

Electronic Value Exchange examines in detail the transformation of the VISA electronic payment system from a collection of non-integrated, localized, paper-based bank credit card programs into the cooperative, global, electronic value exchange network it is today.

Social Learning Systems and Communities of Practice is a collection of classical and contemporary writing associated with learning and systemic change in contexts ranging from cities, to rural development to education to nursing to water management to public policy.

It is now accepted that humans are changing the climate of the Earth and this is the most compelling amongst a long litany of reasons as to why, collectively, we have to change our ways of thinking and acting.

The frequency of new editions of this book is indicative of the rapid and trem- dous changes in the fields of computer and information sciences.

In an age of increasing complexity, diversification and change, customers expect services that cater to their needs and to their tastes.

IT systems explode budget estimates, bust production deadlines by years, and then fail to work properly.

Many challenges were identified in CSCW some thirty years ago, and some of these remain problematic today.

William Sims Bainbridge Virtual worlds are persistent online computer-generated environments where people can interact, whether for work or play, in a manner comparable to the real world.

In a world of increasing complexity, instant information availability and constant flux, systems approaches provide the opportunity of a tangible anchor of purpose and iterate learning.

Every day we share encounters with others as we inhabit the space around us.

Developing usable, useful, and appealing solutions for the customer or user experience requires customization according to specific users' needs amidst frequently changing physical and social environments.

Systems Thinkers presents a biographical history of the field of systems thinking, by examining the life and work of thirty of its major thinkers.

Protecting Privacy in Video Surveillance offers the state of the art from leading researchers and experts in the field.

Social networks provide a powerful abstraction of the structure and dynamics of diverse kinds of people or people-to-technology interaction.

The perspectives and techniques used in human-computer interaction design, practice and research are broadening.

This book has evolved out of roughly ve years of working on computing with social trust.

The intent of this chapter is to outline a distinctive way of thinking about issues of technology and society that has characterized many Nordic approaches to the topic.

Covering key areas of evaluation and methodology, client-side applications, specialist and novel technologies, along with initial appraisals of disabilities, this important book provides comprehensive coverage of web accessibility.

Dave Oliver, Celia Romm and Fay Sudweeks This book follows previous texts: Celia Romm and Fay Sudweeks (eds) (1998), Doing Business Electronically: A Global Perspective of Electronic Commerce, and Fay Sudweeks and Celia Romm (eds) (1999) Doing Business on the Internet: Opportunities and Pitfalls.