Kategoria BISAC: Computers >> Interactive & Multimedia

This book identifies the 13 main challenges designers face when they talk about their work and provides communication strategies so that a better design, not a louder argument, is what makes it into the world.

It is a fact that we all want to put great design into the world, but no product ever makes it out of the building without rounds of reviews, feedback, and signoff. As an interaction or UX designer, you've felt the general trend toward faster development, more work, and less discussion. As we spend time crafting, we become attached to our own ideas and it gets all too easy to...

In The Semiotic Engineering of Human-Computer Interaction, Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza proposes an account of HCI that draws on concepts from semiotics and computer science to investigate the relationship between user and designer. Semiotics is the study of signs, and the essence of semiotic engineering is the communication between designers and users at interaction time; designers must somehow be present in the interface to tell users how to use the signs that make up a system or program. This approach, which builds on -- but goes further than -- the currently dominant...

Arduino is an open-source platform that makes DIY electronics projects easier than ever. Gone are the days when you had to learn electronics theory and arcane programming languages before you could even get an LED to blink. Now, with this new edition of the bestsellingArduino: A Quick-Start Guide, readers with no electronics experience can create their first gadgets quickly. This book is up-to-date for the new Arduino Zero board, with step-by-step instructions for building a universal remote, a motion-sensing game controller, and many other fun, useful projects.

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Digital Video Concepts, Methods, and Metrics: Quality, Compression, Performance, and Power Trade-off Analysis is a concise reference for professionals in a wide range of applications and vocations. It focuses on giving the reader mastery over the concepts, methods and metrics of digital video coding, so that readers have sufficient understanding to choose and tune coding parameters for optimum results that would suit their particular needs for quality, compression, speed and power.

The practical aspects are many: Uploading video to the Internet is only the beginning of a trend...

Interactive Media is a new research field and a landmark in multimedia development. The Era of Interactive Media is an edited volume contributed from world experts working in academia, research institutions and industry.

The Era of Interactive Media focuses mainly on Interactive Media and its various applications. This book also covers multimedia analysis and retrieval; multimedia security rights and management; multimedia compression and optimization; multimedia communication and networking; and multimedia systems and applications.

The Era of Interactive...

The highly competitive and globalized software market is creating pressure on software companies. Given the current boundary conditions, it is critical to continuously increase time-to-market and reduce development costs. In parallel, driven by private life experiences with mobile computing devices, the World Wide Web and software-based services, peoples' general expectations with regards to software are growing. They expect software that is simple and joyful to use. In the light of the changes that have taken place in recent years, software companies need to fundamentally reconsider the...

Fur die Printmedienunternehmen haben sich durch das Internet neue Geschaftsfelder eroffnet: Informationen werden sowohl fur die Papier- als auch fur die Onlineausgabe aufbereitet. Neue Moglichkeiten in der Zusammenarbeit mit Kunden und Produktionspartnern entstehen. Der Leser erhalt einen umfassenden Uberblick uber die neuen Produkte und Prozesse und wird systematisch durch die Begriffsvielfalt gefuhrt; zahlreiche Beispiele veranschaulichen die Anwendungen wie Online-Editiersysteme, webbasierte Projektmanagementtools oder Online-Tracking von Druckauftragen. Das Thema wird aus zwei...