Digital and information technologies: social and ethical aspects

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

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

It is often argued that contemporary media homogenize our thoughts and actions, without us being fully aware of the restrictions they impose.

This book explores the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in addressing critical humanitarian challenges.

This edited book brings together best examples and practices of digital and interactive approaches and platforms from a number of projects based in European countries to foster social inclusion and participation in heritage and culture.

The Handbook of Computational Social Science is a comprehensive reference source for scholars across multiple disciplines.

The sixth generation (6G) of wireless cellular networks is expected to incorporate the latest developments in network infrastructure and emerging advances in technology.

This book offers a comprehensive and integrative introduction to cybercrime.

This book provides insights on how emerging technosciences come together with new forms of governance and ethical questioning.

The three-volume set of LNCS 11921,11922, and 11923 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptology and Information Security, ASIACRYPT 2019, held in Kobe, Japan, in December 2019.

Fake News in Context defines fake news and sets it within a historical and international context.

In recent decades, organizational stress researchers have repeatedly called for more longitudinal studies.

The three volumes LNCS 10820, 10821, and 10822 constitute the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 37th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, EUROCRYPT 2018, held in Tel Aviv, Israel, in April/May 2018.

Web-based school collaboration has attracted the sustained attention of educators, policy-makers, and governmental bodies around the world during the past decade.

The technical progress illustrated by the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data technologies, the Internet of Things (IoT), online platforms, NBICs, autonomous expert systems, and the Blockchain let appear the possibility of a new world and the emergence of a fourth industrial revolution centered around digital data.

Choice Outstanding TitleWhether youre purchasing groceries with your Safeway club card or casting a vote on American Idol, that data is being collected.

This book examines the evolution of digital platform economies through the lens of online gaming.

This book is the latest volume in the series of Springer titles on emotional engineering, tracking the development of this field.

In our digital age we can communicate, access, create, and share an abundance of information effortlessly, rapidly, and nearly ubiquitously.

As we stand on the precipice of a new industrial revolution, Industry 5.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 31st IFIP TC 11 International Conference on ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection, SEC 2016, held in Ghent, Belgium, in May/June 2016.

The influence of technology on hobbies and leisure time is quickly becoming a regular part of daily life, but how much do we really understand about how or why we're using it, and its impact on our health?

Institutions typically treat research integrity violations as black and white, right or wrong.

Humanized AI (HAI), emerging as the next of the AI waves, refers to artificial social beings that are very close to humans in various aspects, beings who are machine-race humans, not digital slaves.

The four-volume set LNCS 8517, 8518, 8519 and 8520 constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Design, User Experience, and Usability, DUXU 2014, held as part of the 16th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2014, held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece in June 2014, jointly with 13 other thematically similar conferences.

This book introduces the most recent research and innovative developments regarding the new strains of COVID-19.

At the 2016 IEEE VIS Conference in Baltimore, Maryland, a panel of experts from the Scientific Visualization (SciVis) community gathered to discuss why the SciVis component of the conference had been shrinking significantly for over a decade.

Contextual Design is a user-centered design process that uses in-depth field research to drive innovative design.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory, SAGT 2017, held in L'Aquila, Italy, in September 2017.

This book constitutes the revised and selected papers from the 5th International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in May 2018, in conjunction with AAMAS 2018.

Discusses the skills required by future lawyers, and explores innovative and technology-driven approaches to modernising legal education.

In recent decades, organizational stress researchers have repeatedly called for more longitudinal studies.

In view of the ever-increasing use of interactive and emerging technologies in museum spaces, Museums and Technologies of Presence rethinks the role of such technologies as potential facilitators of presence and as vehicles for offering new, immersive, and embodied visitor experiences.

In a world where artificial intelligence is reshaping industries, how can we ensure that AI enhances human skills rather than replacing them?

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business, TrustBus 2018, held in Regensburg, Germany, in September 2018 in conjunction with DEXA 2018.

This edited collection approaches the field of social robotics from the perspective of a cultural ecology, fostering a deeper examination of the reach of robotic technology into the lived experience of diverse human populations, as well as the impact of human cultures on the development and design of these social agents.

The concept of smart cities holds environmental promises: that digital technologies will reduce carbon emissions, air pollution and waste, and help address climate change.

This book offers a unique interdisciplinary perspective on the ethics of 'artificial intelligence' - autonomous, intelligent, (and connected) systems, or AISs, applying principles of social cognition to understand the social and ethical issues associated with the creation, adoption, and implementation of AISs.

Contextual Design is a user-centered design process that uses in-depth field research to drive innovative design.

Participatory design is about the direct involvement of people in the co-design of the technologies they use.

This book organizes entity resolution (ER) into four generations based on the challenges posed by "e;the four Vs,"e; Veracity, Volume, Variety, and Velocity.

Computational intelligence (CI) refers to the ability of computers to accomplish tasks that are normally completed by intelligent beings such as humans and animals.