Author: Julie Carpenter Publisher: CRC Press ISBN: 1040252613 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 255
Book Description
The Naked Android: Synthetic Socialness and the Human Gaze illuminates the connection between the stories people tell, their expectations of what a robot is, and how these beliefs and values manifest in how real robots are designed and used. The introduction of the “human gaze” articulates how peoples’ expectations and perceptions about robots are ultimately based on deeply personal cultural interpretations of what is artificial or human and what problems social robots should –or should not –solve. The Naked Android clarifies how human qualities like understanding and desire are designed into robots as mediums as well as projected onto them by the people who live with them. By investigating the fluidity of identities across human culture and social robotics, this book unpacks the contextual complexities of their interactions and mutual influences. Using ethnographic methods including in-depth interviews with a variety of stakeholders, each chapter explores how people are designing social robots, the experience of living with robots, and people whose jobs it is to dream about a future integrated with robots. Key Features: Introduces the concept of the “human gaze” (and the “robot gaze”) as means of understanding how people live with robots. Each chapter includes in-depth interviews with people who make, live with, or create art about robots. Using ethnographic methods, paints a vivid description of the interconnecting influences of science fiction, human imagination, and real technology.
Author: Patrick Hayes Publisher: Patrick Hayes ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 86
Book Description
An 80-page anthology of horror, featuring short stories, micro fiction, poetry & song, all in the grand theme of, well, killing people. Delivered in bursts, and a bit interactive too! Be sure to look around and be careful when you’re inside. TABLE OF CONTENTS Entrance Skip Skip Man stabbed and killed in Akron Only Third Threads Knees and Toes Intro & Tongue of The Wicked Goddess 01111000 00001010 Paralytic Dark Mother finds son dead by brother's hand No More Soup Breathless All Eyes on Tragedy Deadly shooting in the Bronx Recipe For a Sloppy Joe
Author: Rob Huddleston Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 111823491X Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 258
Book Description
Fully loaded with the latest tricks and tips on your new Android! Android smartphones are so hot, they're soaring past iPhones on the sales charts. And the second edition of this muscular little book is equally impressive--it's packed with tips and tricks for getting the very most out of your latest-generation Android device. Start Facebooking and tweeting with your Android mobile, scan barcodes to get pricing and product reviews, download your favorite TV shows--the book is positively bursting with practical and fun how-tos. Topics run the gamut from using speech recognition, location-based mapping, and GPS, to setting up your Android as a broadband modem and much more. Helps you get the most out of your Android smartphone and related technology, including Motorola Droid 2, Motorola Photon 4G, HTC Thunderbolt, LG Optimus 3D, and HTC EVO 3D Shows you how to put a slew of stuff on your Android: old movies, TV shows, music, spreadsheets, presentations, Word documents, and much more Covers all the basic features such as web browsing, using Facebook and Twitter, taking photos, playing music, and using e-mail Offers dozens of high-level tips and tricks, such as using an Android as a broadband modem, barcode scanning, using the GPS, and speech recognition You won't believe all that you can do with Android smartphones. Get Android Fully Loaded, Second Edition and don't miss a thing!
Author: Aguado, Juan Miguel Publisher: IGI Global ISBN: 1466688394 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 467
Book Description
In less than a decade, mobile technology has revolutionized our cultures, societies, and economies by impacting both personal and professional aspects of human life. Mobile technology has therefore become the fastest diffusing technology in history, expanding and transforming existent possibilities by making technology accessible and ubiquitous. Emerging Perspectives on the Mobile Content Evolution seeks a better understanding of the centrality of mobile content in the recent and coming evolution of both the ICT ecosystem and the media industry. This publication appeals to a broad audience within the interdisciplinary field of media studies, covering topic areas such as journalism, marketing and advertising, broadcasting, information management, media management, media economics, media- and technology-related public policies, media sociology, audience/consumption studies, and arts. This publication presents a multi-disciplinary discussion through a collection of academic chapters covering topics such as mobile communications and entrepreneurship, reflection on wearables and innovation, personal and mobile healthcare, mobile journalism and innovation, and behavioral targeting in the mobile ecosystem.
Author: Patrick Tucker Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1591847702 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 290
Book Description
“A thorough yet thoroughly digestible book on the ubiquity of data gathering and the unraveling of personal privacy.” —Daniel Pink, author of Drive Thanks to recent advances in technology, prediction models for individual behavior grow more sophisticated by the day. Whether you’ll marry, commit a crime or fall victim to one, or contract a disease are becoming easily accessible facts. The naked future is upon us, and the implications are staggering. Patrick Tucker draws on fascinating stories from health care to urban planning to online dating. He shows how scientists can predict your behavior based on your friends’ Twitter updates, anticipate the weather a year from now, figure out the time of day you’re most likely to slip back into a bad habit, and guess how well you’ll do on a test before you take it. Tucker knows that the rise of Big Data is not always a good thing. But he also shows how we’ve gained tremendous benefits that we have yet to fully realize.
Author: Chad M. Smith Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Inc ISBN: 1509244662 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 321
Book Description
Agent Mac McDonnel is part of the Rogue Autonomous division in New Trinity. He has been tasked with stopping androids who have become a danger to humans. The androids, who outnumber the humans ten to one, usually operate well and perform their various tasks. If one were to become a danger to the public, Mac and his android partner Six are sent to eliminate the problem. A new virus has started turning harmless androids around the city into killers. Mac has found himself on a collision course with it’s creator. In his quest to stop the virus from spreading throughout every android in the city, Mac has to face some uncomfortable truths from his past. Can he figure out who the true culprit is in time to save the city, or will his past catch up with him before he can pull it off?
Author: Greg Nudelman Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1118417550 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 457
Book Description
Master the challenges of Android user interface development with these sample patterns With Android 4, Google brings the full power of its Android OS to both smartphone and tablet computing. Designing effective user interfaces that work on multiple Android devices is extremely challenging. This book provides more than 75 patterns that you can use to create versatile user interfaces for both smartphones and tablets, saving countless hours of development time. Patterns cover the most common and yet difficult types of user interactions, and each is supported with richly illustrated, step-by-step instructions. Includes sample patterns for welcome and home screens, searches, sorting and filtering, data entry, navigation, images and thumbnails, interacting with the environment and networks, and more Features tablet-specific patterns and patterns for avoiding results you don't want Illustrated, step-by-step instructions describe what the pattern is, how it works, when and why to use it, and related patterns and anti-patterns A companion website offers additional content and a forum for interaction Android Design Patterns: Interaction Design Solutions for Developers provides extremely useful tools for developers who want to take advantage of the booming Android app development market.
Author: Christopher A. Sims Publisher: McFarland ISBN: 0786466480 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 251
Book Description
This project examines the representation of anxiety about technology that humans feel when encountering artificial intelligences in four science fiction novels: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Neuromancer, 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Cloud Atlas. By exploring this anxiety, something profound can be revealed about what it means to be a person living in a technologically saturated society. While many critical investigations of these novels focus on the dangerous and negative implications of artificial intelligence, this work uses Martin Heidegger's later writings on technology to argue that AIs might be more usefully read as catalysts for a reawakening of human thought.
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