Author: Lars Qvortrup Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 9789027724885 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 342
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A Selection of Papers from the EEC Conference on Social Experiments with Information Technology in Odense, Denmark, January 13-15, 1986
Author: Elisabeth M. S. J. Van Gennip Publisher: IOS Press ISBN: 9789051992007 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 346
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Title Page -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Introduction -- Part A: Methodological Aspects -- Evaluation of Automatic Health Information Systems What and How? -- Technology Assessment in Medical and Health Care Informatics: A Clarification of the Concept -- Supporting System Development with Technology Assessment -- The Conceptionof a Medical Computer System -- Verification and Validation -- Case Acquisition for Knowledge-Based Decision Support System Validation -- Approaches to Experimental Design -- Analysis of Costs of Information Systems -- Measuring Effects -- Methods for Data Acquisition -- From Assessment to Decision-Making -- Technology Assessment for Decision-Making in the Field of Informatics in Medicine and Health Care -- Part B: Examples from AIM Projects -- The Impact of Clinical Pilot Projects in R & D Programmes Supported by the EU -- Assessment and Evaluation of Knowledge-Based Expert Systems for Medical Diagnosis -- Evaluation in the TELEGASTRO-Project -- The KANDID Way to ESTEEM -- On the Evaluation of System Integration -- Protocol for the Clinical Functionality Assessment of a Workstation for Stereotactic Neurosurgery -- SAMMIE Software Applied to MultiModal Images and Education -- Technology Assessment in theEurIpacs Project -- Assessment of Workstations and PACS in AIM: The Experience of the MILORD Project -- Part C: Literature Overview -- Overview of Published Assessment and Evaluation Studies -- Literature on Assessment of Information Technology and Medical KBS Evaluation: Studies and Methodologies -- Authors List -- Authors Addresses
Author: T. Rasmussen Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1137446463 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 148
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This book addresses the widespread use of digital personal media in daily life. With a sociological and historical perspective, it explores the media-enhanced individualization and rationalization of the lifeworld, discussing the dramatic mediatization of daily life and calling on theorists such as McLuhan, Habermas and Goffman.
Author: John Downey Publisher: SAGE ISBN: 1847876870 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 225
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Information and communication technologies are said to be transforming urban life dramatically and bringing about rapid economic and cultural globalization. This book explores the many fascinating and urgent issues involved by relating advanced theoretical debates to practical matters of communication with cultural policy. It maps out a range of `optimistic′ and `pessimistic′ scenarios with special regard to various forms of inequality, particularly class, gender and geopolitical. Topics discussed include urban planning, virtual cities and actual cities, economic and political policy, and critical social analysis of current trends that are of momentous consequence. The book concludes that it is necessary to bring together a number of differently informing approaches, cultural, economic, political and technological, to make sense of a field of dynamic and contradictory forces.
Author: Slavko Splichal Publisher: Purdue University Press ISBN: 9781557530431 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 388
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A number of authors, including several contributors to this collection, argue that on the eve of the 21st century, civil society is beginning to disintegrate everywhere. In this volume, fifteen scholars from ten different countries address that argument by problematizing the relation between the older concept, civil society, and the newer one, information society, and offering perspectives on future directions.
Author: T. T. Sreekumar Publisher: Anthem Press ISBN: 1843313839 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 228
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‘ICTs and Development in India’ is a unique attempt to study the nature and consequences of the growing presence of Information Technology in development projects in India, focusing particularly on E-governance and Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) development programs initiated by Civil Society Organizations (CSOs). Sreekumar persuasively argues that there is in fact a wide chasm between the expectations and the actual benefits of CSO initiatives in rural India, and that recognising this crucial fact yields important lessons in conceptualizing development and social action in rural areas.
Author: Constantine Stephanidis Publisher: CRC Press ISBN: 0415005132 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 794
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User Interfaces for All is the first book dedicated to the issues of Universal Design and Universal Access in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Universal Design (or Design for All) is an inclusive and proactive approach seeking to accommodate diversity in the users and usage contexts of interactive products, applications, and services, starting from the design phase of the development life cycle. The ongoing paradigm shift toward a knowledge-intensive information society is already bringing about radical changes in the way people work and interact with each other and with information. The requirement for Universal Design stems from the growing impact of the fusion of the emerging technologies, and from the different dimensions of diversity, which are intrinsic to the information society. This book unfolds the various aspects of this ongoing evolution from a variety of viewpoints. It's a collection of 30 chapters written by leading international authorities, affiliated with academic, research, and industrial organizations, and non-market institutions. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the state of the art in the field, and includes contributions from a variety of theoretical and applied disciplines and research themes. This book can also be used for teaching purposes in HCI courses at the undergraduate as well as graduate level. Students will be introduced to the human-, organizational-, and technology-oriented dimensions that call for a departure from traditional approaches to user interface development. Students will also get an overview of novel methods, techniques, tools, and frameworks for the design, implementation, and evaluation of user interfaces that are universally accessible and usable by the broadest possible end-user population. This comprehensive book is targeted to a broad readership, including HCI researchers, user interface designers, computer scientists, software engineers, ergonomists and usability engineers, Human Factors researchers and practitioners, organizational psychologists, system/product designers, sociologists, policy- and decision makers, scientists in government, industry and education, as well as assistive technology and rehabilitation experts.
Author: J.H. Erik Andriesson Publisher: Psychology Press ISBN: 1134833423 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 465
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This volume is part of a publication series emerging from an international interdisciplinary study group on "New Technologies and Work (NeTWork)". NeTWork is sponsored by the Werner-Reimers Foundation (Bad Homburg, Germany) and the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (Paris). The NeTWork study group has set itself the task of intellectually penetrating various problem domains posed by the introduction and spread of new technologies in work settings. This problem focus requires interdisciplinary co-operation. The usual mode of operating is to identify an important problem within the NeTWork scope, to attempt to prestructure it and then to invite original contributions from European researchers or research teams actively involved in relevant analytic or developmental work. A specific workshop serves to cross-fertilize the different approaches and to help to integrate more fully the individual contributions. The concept of telematics refers to the integration of computer, telecommunication and information technologies. It alludes to the opportunities presented by the technical means to communicate and transfer data over large distances by "intelligent equipment". Teleshopping, teleconferencing, teleworking and telebanking are but a few examples of a development which influences both public and private environments. Both households and workplaces are likely to be thoroughly changed by telematics. This publication emphasises the application of telematics in working environments. The central questions of the book are: How will the present and future development of telematics effect the nature and organization of work, and under which conditions will this development be optimal? From the various contributions it is clear that telematics is not a single direct cause or determinant of particular changes in work and organization. The development and application of telematics depend on decision making of actors at a political scene both outside and inside the work organizations. The effects of the use of these applications appear to be co-determined by many other factors. In fact, the technology interacts with political, economic, and social factors in a complex process that shapes new organizational forms and work relationships.
Author: J. Berleur Publisher: North Holland ISBN: Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 336
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An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure .This comment from one of the contributors pinpoints the target of this publication - to acknowledge vulnerability in our society and identify various means of coping with it.The topic of social vulnerability may be approached from many different directions. For some people, the starting point is a particular system that, because of its size and complexity is unreliable and therefore generates vulnerability. It may be the design, implementation or integration of sophisticated technological devices within the system which reduces its reliability. From another perspective, social vulnerability is ultimately a subjective experience of individual people, the starting point being the quality of life of the individual, not the system. In this way, instead of facing uncertain reliability, society is confronted with certain unreliability - a general sensation of powerlessness and vulnerability in an age dominated by the use of complex information and communication technology. The issue has, at the same time, three distinct aspects: that of the reality of risk, of the perception of risk and of the ability of the individual to act.The papers incorporated in this volume achieve a reconciliation of the different perspectives and work towards the provision of some tentative first answers to the major question posed: how do we meet the challenge of social vulnerability in an information age?
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Author: T. Rasmussen
Author: John Downey
Author: Slavko Splichal
Author: T. T. Sreekumar
Author: Constantine Stephanidis
Author: J.H. Erik Andriesson
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