Encountering Technology
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Encountering Technology
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Author : George Gerstman
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2021-05-24
Encountering Technology written by George Gerstman and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-24 with Computers categories.
Technology has changed the world. Most of us love technology. It has evolved. It has become more complex. We now carry a combined computer, telephone and camera in the form of a smartphone. It’s hard to believe that a smartphone contains, in addition to other technology, billions of transistors. In this fascinating book the author, George Gerstman, shares his story of technology that he has seen evolve over his lifetime. Encountering Technology takes you from the 1940s to the present, with photographs showing much of the technology that Gerstman used and enjoyed. The book includes scores of examples of the technology, such as digital computers that Gerstman programmed during the 1950s which weighed tons and weren’t nearly as powerful as the computer in an iPhone, radios that he listened to before television became popular, the advent of video games, the evolution of the Internet, film cameras that he used before digital cameras were invented, and so much more. Gerstman describes how he personally encountered the digital revolution. Encountering Technology directs you through the most popular technology of the past 80 years. The book is a must-read for everyone with any interest in television, telephones, radios, computers, cameras, the Internet, watches, video, or other technology. Using photographs and clear narrative, Gerstman describes engrossing aspects of the technical devices. His background in electrical engineering and patent law, as well as being a consumer, has given him insights that are certain to inform and excite the reader.
Technology Mediated Service Encounters
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Author : Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2019-01-10
Technology Mediated Service Encounters written by Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-10 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The chapters in this collection, authored by renowned scholars, address a gap in the literature by focusing on the consequences that outsourcing, among other globalized economic practices, and remediation by new technologies have had on the service encounters genre (SE). From both a multilingual and a multidisciplinary perspective, this collection explores the development of technological applications and professional best practices as well as call centre interaction, e-commerce, and e-word of mouth. More specifically, the papers in this volume report on technology developed to support SEs and how this technology influences service providers and their allowable linguistic contributions. Further, this collection provides valuable insights on the language and strategic behaviour deployed in less researched kinds of SEs, gives special attention to how technology impacts the interface between the transactional and interactional goals of SEs, and thus has real world applications.
Technology To Support Children S Collaborative Interactions
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Author : Nicola Yuill
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-09-06
Technology To Support Children S Collaborative Interactions written by Nicola Yuill and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-06 with Psychology categories.
This book explores how technology can foster interaction between children and their peers, teachers and other adults. It presents the Co-EnACT framework to explain how technology can support children to collaborate, so helping them to learn and engage enjoyably with the world, in both work and play. The focus is on children, rather than young people, but the principles of supporting interaction apply throughout all life stages. Chapters on classrooms and on autism explain principles behind using technology in ways that support, rather than obstruct, social interaction in diverse populations. Collaborative interaction involves both verbal and non-verbal behaviour and this book presents evidence from closely analysing children’s behaviour in natural settings. Examples from cutting-edge technology illustrate principles applicable to more widely-available technology. The book will be of interest to psychologists, educators, researchers in Human–Computer Interaction (HCI), particularly those designing with children in mind, and practitioners working with children who want to deepen their understanding of using technology for collaboration.
Dawn Of The New Everything
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Author : Jaron Lanier
language : en
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Release Date : 2017-11-21
Dawn Of The New Everything written by Jaron Lanier and has been published by Henry Holt and Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-21 with Computers categories.
Named one of the best books of 2017 by The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, & Vox The father of virtual reality explains its dazzling possibilities by reflecting on his own lifelong relationship with technology Bridging the gap between tech mania and the experience of being inside the human body, Dawn of the New Everything is a look at what it means to be human at a moment of unprecedented technological possibility. Through a fascinating look back over his life in technology, Jaron Lanier, an interdisciplinary scientist and father of the term “virtual reality,” exposes VR’s ability to illuminate and amplify our understanding of our species, and gives readers a new perspective on how the brain and body connect to the world. An inventive blend of autobiography, science writing, philosophy and advice, this book tells the wild story of his personal and professional life as a scientist, from his childhood in the UFO territory of New Mexico, to the loss of his mother, the founding of the first start-up, and finally becoming a world-renowned technological guru. Understanding virtual reality as being both a scientific and cultural adventure, Lanier demonstrates it to be a humanistic setting for technology. While his previous books offered a more critical view of social media and other manifestations of technology, in this book he argues that virtual reality can actually make our lives richer and fuller.
Accident Prone
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Author : John Burnham
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2010-04-15
Accident Prone written by John Burnham and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-15 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Technology demands uniformity from human beings who encounter it. People encountering technology, however, differ from one another. Thinkers in the early twentieth century, observing the awful consequences of interactions between humans and machines—death by automobiles or dismemberment by factory machinery, for example—developed the idea of accident proneness: the tendency of a particular person to have more accidents than most people. In tracing this concept from its birth to its disappearance at the end of the twentieth century, Accident Prone offers a unique history of technology focused not on innovations but on their unintended consequences. Here, John C. Burnham shows that as the machine era progressed, the physical and economic impact of accidents coevolved with the rise of the insurance industry and trends in twentieth-century psychology. After World War I, psychologists determined that some people are more accident prone than others. This designation signaled a shift in social strategy toward minimizing accidents by diverting particular people away from dangerous environments. By the 1960s and 1970s, however, the idea of accident proneness gradually declined, and engineers developed new technologies to protect all people, thereby introducing a hidden, but radical, egalitarianism. Lying at the intersection of the history of technology, the history of medicine and psychology, and environmental history, Accident Prone is an ambitious intellectual analysis of the birth, growth, and decline of an idea that will interest anyone who wishes to understand how Western societies have grappled with the human costs of modern life.
Digital Technology In Service Encounters
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Author : Sonja Christ-Brendemühl
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-06-27
Digital Technology In Service Encounters written by Sonja Christ-Brendemühl and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-27 with Business & Economics categories.
Digital technology is disrupting the prerequisites for most firms in the service industry and frequently forces them to reassess the ratio of human interaction and technology use in service encounters. To retain competitiveness, it seems mandatory to increase service encounter efficiency by embedding digital technology into the existing processes. However, there is little empirical evidence on how such technological implementations affect the sentiments, attitudes, and behaviors of frontline employees. Likewise, research on interrelated customer responses is scarce. To address this matter, this book presents four distinct yet related studies to investigate the impact of digital technology on frontline employees, customers, and ultimately service firms. The results and implications provide meaningful insights for theory and practice.
Educational Technology And Pedagogic Encounters
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Author : Yusef Waghid
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-07-15
Educational Technology And Pedagogic Encounters written by Yusef Waghid and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-15 with Education categories.
This book looks at some of the underlying theories of educational technology (means), and ways in which this technology is guided in practice (ends). The authors are intent on producing ends that prepare students to undertake new analyses and evaluations that can result in new possibilities for democratic action. Emphasis is on their understanding of and position within educational technology – as opposed to using or applying educational technology. The work is not written from the point of view that their embeddedness within educational technology has a utilitarian end in mind, but rather that their situatedness within educational technology (a practice in itself) leaves open possibilities for new ways of understanding democratic education. This book is organised into six interrelated themes that work towards the cultivation of educational technology as a human practice which guides pedagogic encounters on the basis of taking risks in relation to which the unexpected, unimaginable is always possible.
Beyond Interpretivism New Encounters With Technology And Organization
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Author : Lucas Introna
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-11-18
Beyond Interpretivism New Encounters With Technology And Organization written by Lucas Introna and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-18 with Computers categories.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP WG 8.2 Working Conference on Information Systems and Organizations, IS&O 2016, held in Dublin, Ireland, in December 2016. The 12 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 75 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: doing process research; exploring affect and affordance; considering communication and performance; and examining knowledge and practice.
Digital Encounters
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Author : Aylish Wood
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2007
Digital Encounters written by Aylish Wood and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Art categories.
Digital Encounters reconceptualizes the way we think about technology and the moving image, exploring a network of images and technological objects such as animations, digital effects films, computer games and mixed media gallery installations.
Digital Encounters
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Author : Aylish Wood
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2007-04-17
Digital Encounters written by Aylish Wood and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-04-17 with Performing Arts categories.
Digital Encounters is a cross media study of digital moving images in animation, cinema, games, and installation art.In a world increasingly marked by proliferating technologies, the way we encounter and understand these story-worlds, game spaces and art works reveals aspects of the ways in which we organize and decode the vast amount of visual mat