Human-Computer Interaction

If you've ever wondered how Linux carries out the complicated tasks assigned to it by the IP protocols -- or if you just want to learn about modern networking through real-life examples -- Understanding Linux Network Internals is for you. Like the...

Sketching Working Experience: The Workbook provides information about the step-by-step process of the different sketching techniques. It offers methods called design thinking, as a way to think as a user, and sketching, a way to think as a designer...

Draw a Better Business is an illustrated practical guide for freelancers and business people who want to tap into their innate creativity, learn to use visual skills and techniques and gain the business benefits. This book will help you plan, pitch,...

Can computers change what you think and do? Can they motivate you to stop smoking, persuade you to buy insurance, or convince you to join the Army? "Yes, they can," says Dr. B.J. Fogg, director of the Persuasive Technology Lab at Stanford University...

It's Our Research: Getting Stakeholder Buy-in for User Experience Research Projects discusses frameworks, strategies, and techniques for working with stakeholders of user experience (UX) research in a way that ensures their buy-in. This book consists...

Follow a tried-and-tested approach to integrating augmented and virtual reality into your business The Extended Reality Blueprint focuses on design for non-gaming or gaming adjacent applications in extended reality (XR), including augmented and virtual...

Usability Testing for Survey Research provides researchers with a guide to the tools necessary to evaluate, test, and modify surveys in an iterative method during the survey pretesting process. It includes examples that apply usability to any type of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933820484Author Indi YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Rosenfeld MediaPublisher Rosenfeld Media

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...

How can you design technology that becomes a part of a user's life and not a distraction from it? This practical book explores the concept of calm technology, a method for smoothly capturing a user's attention only when necessary, while calmly remaining...

Ditch the devices and bring back the magic of being a kid Screens are everywhere. Children spend an average of 7.5 hours on digital devices every day with profoundly negative consequences. While some tech may "amplify" real-life experience, the vast...

How the autonomous digital forces jolting our lives - as uncontrollable as the weather and plate tectonics - are transforming life, society, culture, and politics.David Auerbach's exploration of the phenomenon he has identified as the meganet begins with...

The issue of video games and their harmful/helpful effects on children and young adults is a hot topic. The Hardback sold very well. The book does not shy away from controversy, even finding good news in shooter games vis a vis adolescent cognitive...

This book provides the first comprehensive treatment of feed-forward neural networks from the perspective of statistical pattern recognition. After introducing the basic concepts of pattern recognition, the book describes techniques for modelling...

This book is the first to examine the history of imaginative thinking about intelligent machines. As real Artificial Intelligence (AI) begins to touch on all aspects of our lives, this long narrative history shapes how the technology is developed,...

Learn to identify the social engineer by non-verbal behavior Unmasking the Social Engineer: The Human Element of Security focuses on combining the science of understanding non-verbal communications with the knowledge of how social engineers, scam artists...

Finance students and practitioners may ask: can machines learn everything? Could AI help me? Computing students or practitioners may ask: which of my skills could contribute to finance? Where in finance should I pay attention? This book aims to answer...

Create stunning infographics with this hands-on guide Infographics For Dummies is a comprehensive guide to creating data visualization with viral appeal. Written by the founder of Infographic World, a New York City based infographic agency, and his top...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933820248Author Luke WroblewskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Rosenfeld MediaPublisher Rosenfeld Media

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262528757Author Dawn NafusFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Research Methods in Human-Computer Interaction is a comprehensive guide to performing research and is essential reading for both quantitative and qualitative methods. Since the first edition was published in 2009, the book has been adopted for use at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140282023Author Ray KurzweilFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 459gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...

User Experience Management: Essential Skills for Leading Effective UX Teams deals with specific issues associated with managing diverse user experience (UX) skills, often in corporations with a largely engineering culture. Part memoir and part handbook,...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly impacting many aspects of people's lives across the globe, from relatively mundane technology to more advanced digital systems that can make their own decisions. While AI has great potential, it also holds...

Why do we feel excited, afraid, and frustrated by algorithms?The Feel of Algorithms brings relatable first-person accounts of what it means to experience algorithms emotionally alongside interdisciplinary social science research, to reveal how political...

A good visualization can communicate the nature and potential impact of ideas more powerfully than any other form of communication.For a long time, "dataviz" was left to specialists--data scientists and professional designers. No longer. A new generation...

This book is the first to examine the history of imaginative thinking about intelligent machines. As real Artificial Intelligence (AI) begins to touch on all aspects of our lives, this long narrative history shapes how the technology is developed,...

The past decade has witnessed a wide adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) technologies. However, a lack of oversight into their widespread implementation has resulted in harmful outcomes that could have been avoided with...

Contextual Design: Design for Life, Second Edition, describes the core techniques needed to deliberately produce a compelling user experience. Contextual design was first invented in 1988 to drive a deep understanding of the user into the design process...

Technology is constantly changing, and with this change and advancement comes changes in human behaviour. Our physical being is becoming increasingly replicated through video-chat and virtual worlds. At the same time it is being carefully crafted and...

'This book will change the way you think about today's new media technologies' - Daniel J. Solove, author of ""The Digital Person: Technology and Privacy in the Information Age"". Whether you're purchasing groceries with your Safeway 'club card' or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916754003Author Kyle TaylorFormat PaperbackImprint Byline BooksPublisher Byline Books

As lives offline and online merge even more, it is easy to forget how we got here. Rise of the Machines reclaims the spectacular story of cybernetics, one of the twentieth century's pivotal ideas. Springing from the mind of mathematician Norbert Wiener...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250002617Author Miguel NicolelisFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 213mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399171710Author John C. HavensFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

This book explores the role of virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR) in today's evolving digital landscape, examining how these technologies are shaping society and how they might evolve in the future.It surveys the wide-ranging applications of VR...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780750359122Author Athanasios VourvopoulosFormat HardbackPage Count 380Imprint Institute of Physics PublishingPublisher Institute of Physics Publishing

The Fundamentals of UX Writing explores the topic of microcopy - what it is, why it matters, and how to craft effective, user-friendly text for digital experiences. Strong microcopy enhances usability, builds trust, and improves conversions, making it a...

The three volume set CCIS 2834-2836 constitutes the proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications, CHIRA 2025, held Marbella, Spain, during October 2025. The 21 full papers and 64 short papers...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of Inclusive Design as a framework for developing products, services, environments, and learning experiences that enable the diversity and differing abilities of human populations. It examines the influence of...