Kategoria BISAC: Computers >> Interactive & Multimedia

This book describes the technology used for effective sensing of our physical world and intelligent processing techniques for sensed information, which are essential to the success of Internet of Things (IoT). The authors provide a multidisciplinary view of sensor technology from materials, process, circuits, and big data domains and showcase smart sensor systems in real applications including smart home, transportation, medical, environmental, agricultural, etc. Unlike earlier books on sensors, this book provides a "global" view on smart sensors covering abstraction levels from device,...

The promise of technology has always been about happiness in one form or another. Technology aspires to make tiresome chores go faster, to help people get better at their work, and to augment human abilities. And yet, research suggests that technology has a strong negative impact on our lives. We all struggle a little with being human in the digital age.

How can we start designing toward long-term well-being rather than short-term goals of attention and conversion? Just as countries are measuring well-being and companies are looking more closely at employee happiness, technology can...

Seit dem kommerziellen Erfolg des 3D-Blockbusters "Avatar" im Jahr 2009 kommen immer mehr 3D-Filme und 3D-Fernseher auf den Markt. Mittlerweile gibt es Autostereoskopie-Verfahren, bei denen Zuschauer keine 3D-Brille mehr benotigen. In dem Band werden die derzeit verfugbaren Technologien der Autostereoskopie, ihre Funktionsweise, Anwendung und Limitierung allgemeinverstandlich beschrieben. Zu jeder Technologie liefert der Band Anleitungen und Beispiele fur die Erstellung von 3D-Inhalten. Alle Tools sind auf der begleitenden Internetseite verfugbar.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference of the Immersive Learning Network, iLRN 2016, held in Santa Barbara, CA, USA, in June/July 2016.

The proceedings contain 9 full papers carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions and the best 5 special track papers. The papers focus on various applications of immersive technologies to learning.

In diesem essential werden die ubergeordneten Zielsetzungen der Applikationsentwicklung und -einfuhrung auf vier Evolutionsphasen verteilt, um unterschiedlichen Anforderungen gerecht zu werden. Durch den daraus resultierenden strategischen Applikationslebenszyklus (SALZ) konnen innovative Neuentwicklungen in fruhen Phasen von technischen und architekturbezogenen Vorgaben befreit und agil entwickelt werden, wahrend fur operative Kernsysteme weiterhin ein ausfuhrliches Anderungsmanagement betrieben wird. Damit bietet der SALZ auch die Grundlage, um in Unternehmen IT-Entwicklungsprojekte...

This book explores the possibility to observe the lives of cities through ubiquitous information obtained through social networks, sensors and other sources of data and information, and the ways in which this possibility describes a new form of Public Space, which can be used to define new forms of citizenship and participated city governance. The work is the result of years of research across sciences, arts, design, ethnography, cultural geography, performed by multiple researchers, understanding the Relational Ecosystems of cities (the flows of relation, information, knowledge and...

Learn how to program JavaScript while creating interactive audio applications with JavaScript for Sound Artists: Learn to Code With the Web Audio API William Turner and Steve Leonard showcase the basics of JavaScript language programing so that readers can learn how to build browser based audio applications, such as music synthesizers and drum machines. The companion website offers further opportunity for growth. Web Audio API instruction includes oscillators, audio file loading and playback, basic audio manipulation, panning and time. This book encompasses all of the...

This book describes the basic principles underlying the generation, coding, transmission and enhancement of speech and audio signals, including advanced statistical and machine learning techniques for speech and speaker recognition with an overview of the key innovations in these areas. Key research undertaken in speech coding, speech enhancement, speech recognition, emotion recognition and speaker diarization are also presented, along with recent advances and new paradigms in these areas.

This LNCS double volume LNCS 9931-9932 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th Asia-Pacific Conference APWeb 2016 held in Suzhou, China, in September 2016.

The 79 full papers and presented together with 24 short papers and 17 demo papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 215 submissions.

the focus of the conference was on following subjects:

• Spatio-temporal, Textual and Multimedia Data Management
• Social Media Data Analysis
• Modelling and Learning with Big Data
• Streaming and Real-time Data Analysis
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