Human–computer interaction Books

Spoken dialog systems have the potential to offer highly intuitive user interfaces, as they allow systems to be controlled using natural language. However, the complexity inherent in natural language dialogs means that careful testing of the system must...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Symposium on VSLI Design and Test, VDAT 2012, held in Shibpur, India, in July 2012. The 30 revised regular papers presented together with 10 short papers...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the AmI 2011 Workshops, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in November 2011.The 55 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptographic Techniques in Africa, AFRICACRYPT 2011, held in Ifrane, Morocco, in July 2012. The 24 papers...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Scandinavian Symposium and Workshops on Algorithm Theory, SWAT 2012, held in Helsinki, Finland, in July 2012, co-located with the 23rd Annual Symposium on...

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th IFIP WG 11.2 International Workshop on Information Security Theory and Practice: Security, Privacy and Trust in Computing Systems and Ambient Intelligent Ecosystems,...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Multimedia Communications, Services and Security, MCSS 2012, held in Krakow, Poland, in May/June 2012. The 37 revised full papers presented...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Sequences and Their Applications, SETA 2012, held in Waterloo, Canada, in June 2012. The 28 full papers presented together with 2 invited...

Interference Cancellation Using Space-Time Processing and Precoding Design introduces original design methods to achieve interference cancellation, low-complexity decoding and full diversity for a series of multi-user systems. In multi-user environments,...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions IPCAI 2012, held in Pisa, Italy, on June 27, 2012. The 17 papers presented were carefully...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment (INTETAIN 11). The 20 full papers, 3 posters, 10 demos and 4 workshops presented were carefully selected from numerous...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th IFIP WG 11.11 International Conference, IFIPTM 2012, held in Surat, India, in May 2012. The 12 revised full papers presented together with 8 short papers and the...

This book systematically addresses the quantification of quality aspects of multimodal interactive systems. The conceptual structure is based on a schematic view on human-computer interaction where the user interacts with the system and perceives it via...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies, ICSOFT 2010, held in Athens, Greece, in July 2010.The 30 revised full papers presented together with 1...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology, DERIST 2012, held in Las Vegas, NV, USA, in May 2012. The 24 revised full papers presented together with...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 15th Nordic Conference in Secure IT Systems, NordSec 2010, held at Aalto University in Espoo, Finland in October 2010. The 13 full papers and 3...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of 5 workshops, held at the 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2011, in Taipei, Taiwan, May 2-6, 2011. The 37...

The term "haptics" refers to the science of sensing and manipulation through touch. Multiple disciplines such as biomechanics, psychophysics, robotics, neuroscience, and software engineering converge to support haptics, and generally, haptic research is...

This research book proposes a general conceptual framework for the development of automation in human-agents environments that will allow human- agent teams to work effectively and efficiently. We examine various schemes to implement artificial...

This volumes discusses various aspects regarding the capacity/achievable data rate of stationary Rayleigh fading channels. First, it analyses bounds on the achievable data rate with zero-mean proper Gaussian input symbols, which are capacity achieving in...

This book is the result of a group of researchers from different disciplines asking themselves one question: what does it take to develop a computer interface that listens, talks, and can answer questions in a domain? First, obviously, it takes...

This work deals with the instrumental measurement methods for the perceived quality of transmitted speech. These measures simulate the speech perception process employed by human subjects during auditory experiments. The measure standardized by the...

This book introduces a new approach to designing E-Librarian Services. With the help of this system, users will be able to retrieve multimedia resources from digital libraries more efficiently than they would by browsing through an index or by using a...

(Preliminary): The Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) digital transmission technique has several advantages in broadcast and mobile communications applications. The main objective of this book is to give a good insight into these efforts,...

1. Pattern and Process of Urban Growth and Sprawl.- 2.Causes and Consequences of Urban Growth and Sprawl.- 3. Sustainable Development and Smart Growth.- 4. Sustainable Development and Smart Growth.- 5. Mapping and Monitoring Urban Growth.- 6. Simulation...

Data Mining.- Evolutionary Algorithms.- Genetic Programming for Classification and Algorithm Design.- Automating the Design of Rule Induction Algorithms.- Computational Results on the Automatic Design of Full Rule Induction Algorithms.- Directions for...

Standard Harmony Search Algorithm for Structural Design Optimization.- Optimum Design of Steel Frames via Harmony Search Algorithm.- Adaptive Harmony Search Algorithm for Design Code Optimization of Steel Structures.- Harmony Particle Swarm Algorithm for...

Risk Management.- Information Risk Management and Resilience.- Does the Liberalization of the European Railway Sector Increase Systemic Risk?.- Risk-Based Criticality Analysis.- Modeling and Managing Risk in Billing Infrastructures.- Control Systems...

Welcome to the Proceedings of ICCHP 2010! We were proud to welcome participants from more than 40 countries from all over the world to this year's ICCHP. Since the late 1980s, it has been ICCHP's mission to support and reflect...

ISAmI is the International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence, aiming to bring together researchers from various disciplines that constitute the scientific field of Ambient Intelligence to present and discuss the latest results, new ideas, projects and...

Session 1 - Session Chair: Nikolaos Preve.- A Closed-Form Expression for Outage Secrecy Capacity in Wireless Information-Theoretic Security.- Enhanced Access Polynomial Based Self-healing Key Distribution.- Security Flaws in an Efficient Pseudo-Random...

This volume contains the invited and contributed papers selected for presen- tion at SOFSEM 2010, the 36th Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practiceof Computer Science, held January23-29,2010 in the Hotel Bed? richov,...

With great pleasure we would like to present the third volume of the journal Trans- tions on Edutainment. This journal, part of the Springer series Lecture Notes in C- puter Science, is devoted to research and development in...

Modern communication devices, such as mobile phones, teleconferencing systems, VoIP, etc., are often used in noisy and reverberant environments. Therefore, signals picked up by the microphones from telecommunication devices...

Post-Quantum Cryptology.- Secure Parameters for SWIFFT.- FSBday.- Key Agreement Protocols.- Reusing Static Keys in Key Agreement Protocols.- A Study of Two-Party Certificateless Authenticated Key-Agreement Protocols.- Side Channel Attacks.- Fault...

As future generation information technology (FGIT) becomes specialized and fr- mented, it is easy to lose sight that many topics in FGIT have common threads and, because of this, advances in one discipline may be transmitted to...

The Workgroup Human-Computer Interaction & Usability Engineering (Arbeitskreis HCI&UE) of the Austrian Computer Society (Österreichische Computer Gesellschaft, OCG) has been serving as a platform for interdisciplinary exchange,...

The 20th InternationalWorkshop on CombinatorialAlgorithms was held during June 28 - July 2, 2009 in the picturesque castle of Hradec nad Moravic´ ?,located in the north-east corner of the Czech Republic. IWOCA - the ...

Collaboration among individuals - from users to developers - is central to modern software engineering. It takes many forms: joint activity to solve common problems, negotiation to resolve conflicts, creation of shared definitions, and both social and...

This book contains the collection of papers presented at the conference of the International Federation for Information Processing Working Group 8.2 "Information and Organizations." The conference took place during June 21-24,...

"Sense of Touch and its Rendering" presents a unique and interdisciplinary approach highlighting the field of haptic research from a neuropsychological as well as a technological point of view. This edited book is the outcome...

Non-Player Characters and Reinforcement Learning.- Non-Player Characters in Multiuser Games.- Motivation in Natural and Artificial Agents.- Towards Motivated Reinforcement Learning.- Comparing the Behaviour of Learning Agents.- Developing Curious...

Mathematics Basics.- Elements of Lattice Theory.- Basics of Information Retrieval Technology.- Lattice-Based Retrieval Systems.- Boolean Retrieval.- Lattices of Subspaces and Projectors.- Vector Space Retrieval.- Fuzzy Algebra-Based Retrieval.-...

Cryptography, secret writing, is enjoying a scientific renaissance following the seminal discovery in 1977 of public-key cryptography and applications in computers and communications. This book gives a broad overview of...

This is one of the only books to provide a complete and coherent review of the theory of genetic programming (GP). In doing so, it provides a coherent consolidation of recent work on the theoretical foundations of GP. A concise...

The Social Web (including services such as MySpace, Flickr, last.fm, and WordPress) has captured the attention of millions of users as well as billions of dollars in investment and acquisition. Social websites, evolving around the connections between...

A "Learning Network" is a community of people who help each other to better understand and handle certain events and concepts in work or life. As a result - and sometimes also as an aim - participating in learning networks...