Reading Writing Interfaces

Author : Lori Emerson
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452942193

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Reading Writing Interfaces by Lori Emerson Pdf

Lori Emerson examines how interfaces—from today’s multitouch devices to yesterday’s desktops, from typewriters to Emily Dickinson’s self-bound fascicle volumes—mediate between writer and text as well as between writer and reader. Following the threads of experimental writing from the present into the past, she shows how writers have long tested and transgressed technological boundaries. Reading the means of production as well as the creative works they produce, Emerson demonstrates that technologies are more than mere tools and that the interface is not a neutral border between writer and machine but is in fact a collaborative creative space. Reading Writing Interfaces begins with digital literature’s defiance of the alleged invisibility of ubiquitous computing and multitouch in the early twenty-first century and then looks back at the ideology of the user-friendly graphical user interface that emerged along with the Apple Macintosh computer of the 1980s. She considers poetic experiments with and against the strictures of the typewriter in the 1960s and 1970s and takes a fresh look at Emily Dickinson’s self-printing projects as a challenge to the coherence of the book. Through archival research, Emerson offers examples of how literary engagements with screen-based and print-based technologies have transformed reading and writing. She reveals the ways in which writers—from Emily Dickinson to Jason Nelson and Judd Morrissey—work with and against media interfaces to undermine the assumed transparency of conventional literary practice.

Author : Pauline Reid
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487511630

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Reading by Design by Pauline Reid Pdf

Renaissance readers perceived the print book as both a thing and a medium - a thing that could be broken or reassembled, and a visual medium that had the power to reflect, transform, or deceive. At the same historical moment that print books remediated the visual and material structures of manuscript and oral rhetoric, the relationship between vision and perception was fundamentally called into question. Investigating this crisis of perception, Pauline Reid argues that the visual crisis that suffuses early modern English thought also imbricates sixteenth- and seventeenth-century print materials. These vision troubles in turn influenced how early modern books and readers interacted. Platonic, Aristotelian, and empirical models of sight vied with one another in a culture where vision had a tenuous relationship to external reality. Through situating early modern books’ design elements, such as woodcuts, engravings, page borders, and layouts, as important rhetorical components of the text, Reading by Design articulates how the early modern book responded to epistemological crises of perception and competing theories of sight.

Author : Doug Bowman,Ernst Kruijff,Joseph J. LaViola Jr.,Ivan P. Poupyrev
Publisher : Addison-Wesley
Page : 867 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004-07-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780133390568

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3D User Interfaces by Doug Bowman,Ernst Kruijff,Joseph J. LaViola Jr.,Ivan P. Poupyrev Pdf

Here’s what three pioneers in computer graphics and human-computer interaction have to say about this book: “What a tour de force—everything one would want—comprehensive, encyclopedic, and authoritative.” — Jim Foley “At last, a book on this important, emerging area. It will be an indispensable reference for the practitioner, researcher, and student interested in 3D user interfaces.” — Andy van Dam “Finally, the book we need to bridge the dream of 3D graphics with the user-centered reality of interface design. A thoughtful and practical guide for researchers and product developers. Thorough review, great examples.” — Ben Shneiderman As 3D technology becomes available for a wide range of applications, its successful deployment will require well-designed user interfaces (UIs). Specifically, software and hardware developers will need to understand the interaction principles and techniques peculiar to a 3D environment. This understanding, of course, builds on usability experience with 2D UIs. But it also involves new and unique challenges and opportunities. Discussing all relevant aspects of interaction, enhanced by instructive examples and guidelines, 3D User Interfaces comprises a single source for the latest theory and practice of 3D UIs. Many people already have seen 3D UIs in computer-aided design, radiation therapy, surgical simulation, data visualization, and virtual-reality entertainment. The next generation of computer games, mobile devices, and desktop applications also will feature 3D interaction. The authors of this book, each at the forefront of research and development in the young and dynamic field of 3D UIs, show how to produce usable 3D applications that deliver on their enormous promise. Coverage includes: The psychology and human factors of various 3D interaction tasks Different approaches for evaluating 3D UIs Results from empirical studies of 3D interaction techniques Principles for choosing appropriate input and output devices for 3D systems Details and tips on implementing common 3D interaction techniques Guidelines for selecting the most effective interaction techniques for common 3D tasks Case studies of 3D UIs in real-world applications To help you keep pace with this fast-evolving field, the book’s Web site, www.3dui.org, will offer information and links to the latest 3D UI research and applications.

Author : Steven A. Johnson
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1999-10-07
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0465036805

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Interface Culture by Steven A. Johnson Pdf

Drawing on his own expertise in the humanities and on the Web, Steven Johnson not only demonstrates how interfaces - those buttons, graphics, and words on the computer screen through which we control information - influence our daily lives, but also tracks their roots back to Victorian novels, early cinema, and even medieval urban planning. The result is a lush cultural and historical tableau in which today's interfaces take their rightful place in the lineage of artistic innovation. With a distinctively accessible style, Interface Culture brings new intellectual depth to the vital discussion of how technology has transformed society, and is sure to provoke wide debate in both literary and technological circles.

Author : Branden Hookway
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780262525503

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Interface by Branden Hookway Pdf

A cultural theory of the interface as a relation that is both ubiquitous and elusive, drawing on disciplines from cultural theory to architecture. In this book, Branden Hookway considers the interface not as technology but as a form of relationship with technology. The interface, Hookway proposes, is at once ubiquitous and hidden from view. It is both the bottleneck through which our relationship to technology must pass and a productive encounter embedded within the use of technology. It is a site of contestation—between human and machine, between the material and the social, between the political and the technological—that both defines and elides differences. A virtuoso in multiple disciplines, Hookway offers a theory of the interface that draws on cultural theory, political theory, philosophy, art, architecture, new media, and the history of science and technology. He argues that the theoretical mechanism of the interface offers a powerful approach to questions of the human relationship to technology. Hookway finds the origin of the term interface in nineteenth-century fluid dynamics and traces its migration to thermodynamics, information theory, and cybernetics. He discusses issues of subject formation, agency, power, and control, within contexts that include technology, politics, and the social role of games. He considers the technological augmentation of humans and the human-machine system, discussing notions of embodied intelligence. Hookway views the figure of the subject as both receiver and active producer in processes of subjectification. The interface, he argues, stands in a relation both alien and intimate, vertiginous and orienting to those who cross its threshold.

Author : Davide Valeriani,Hubert Cecotti,Antonia Thelen,Christian Herff
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832517642

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Translational brain-computer interfaces: From research labs to the market and back by Davide Valeriani,Hubert Cecotti,Antonia Thelen,Christian Herff Pdf

Author : John Doak,David Justice
Publisher : Packt Publishing Ltd
Page : 635 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-08
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781801819343

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Go for DevOps by John Doak,David Justice Pdf

Achieve reliable release automation and get zero troublesome notifications on your release day. Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free eBook in the PDF format. Key Features Develop the skills to build command-line tools to control thousands of nodes Use Go to create Terraform providers and GitHub actions and extend Kubernetes Gain the knowledge to build DevOps workflows that are understandable, scalable, and safe Book DescriptionGo is the go-to language for DevOps libraries and services, and without it, achieving fast and safe automation is a challenge. With the help of Go for DevOps, you'll learn how to deliver services with ease and safety, becoming a better DevOps engineer in the process. Some of the key things this book will teach you are how to write Go software to automate configuration management, update remote machines, author custom automation in GitHub Actions, and interact with Kubernetes. As you advance through the chapters, you'll explore how to automate the cloud using software development kits (SDKs), extend HashiCorp's Terraform and Packer using Go, develop your own DevOps services with gRPC and REST, design system agents, and build robust workflow systems. By the end of this Go for DevOps book, you'll understand how to apply development principles to automate operations and provide operational insights using Go, which will allow you to react quickly to resolve system failures before your customers realize something has gone wrong.What you will learn Understand the basic structure of the Go language to begin your DevOps journey Interact with filesystems to read or stream data Communicate with remote services via REST and gRPC Explore writing tools that can be used in the DevOps environment Develop command-line operational software in Go Work with popular frameworks to deploy production software Create GitHub actions that streamline your CI/CD process Write a ChatOps application with Slack to simplify production visibility Who this book is for This book is for Ops and DevOps engineers who would like to use Go to develop their own DevOps tooling or integrate custom features with DevOps tools such as Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, HashiCorp Packer, and Terraform. Experience with some type of programming language, but not necessarily Go, is necessary to get started with this book.

Author : Golden Krishna
Publisher : New Riders
Page : 99998 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780133890426

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The Best Interface Is No Interface by Golden Krishna Pdf

Our love affair with the digital interface is out of control. We’ve embraced it in the boardroom, the bedroom, and the bathroom. Screens have taken over our lives. Most people spend over eight hours a day staring at a screen, and some “technological innovators” are hoping to grab even more of your eyeball time. You have screens in your pocket, in your car, on your appliances, and maybe even on your face. Average smartphone users check their phones 150 times a day, responding to the addictive buzz of Facebook or emails or Twitter. Are you sick? There’s an app for that! Need to pray? There’s an app for that! Dead? Well, there’s an app for that, too! And most apps are intentionally addictive distractions that end up taking our attention away from things like family, friends, sleep, and oncoming traffic. There’s a better way. In this book, innovator Golden Krishna challenges our world of nagging, screen-based bondage, and shows how we can build a technologically advanced world without digital interfaces. In his insightful, raw, and often hilarious criticism, Golden reveals fascinating ways to think beyond screens using three principles that lead to more meaningful innovation. Whether you’re working in technology, or just wary of a gadget-filled future, you’ll be enlighted and entertained while discovering that the best interface is no interface.

Author : Susanne Bayerlipp,Ralf Haekel,Johannes Schlegel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501383892

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Media Ecologies of Literature by Susanne Bayerlipp,Ralf Haekel,Johannes Schlegel Pdf

This book explores the media ecologies of literature – the ways in which a literary text is interwoven in its material, technical, performative, praxeological, affective, and discursive network and which determine how it is experienced and interpreted. Through novel approaches to the complex, contingent and interdependent environments of literature, this volume demonstrates how questions about the mediality of literature – particularly in the wake of digitization – shed a new light on our understanding of textuality, reading, platforms and reception processes. By drawing on recent developments in advanced media theory, Media Ecologies of Literature emphasizes the productivity of innovative re-conceptualizations of literature as a medium in its own right. In an intentionally wide historical scope, the essays engage with literary texts from the Romantic to the contemporary period, from Charlotte Smith and Oscar Wilde to A. L. Kennedy and Mark Z. Danielewski, from the traditionally printed novel to audiobooks and reading apps.

Author : Marti A. Hearst
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-21
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781139642811

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Search User Interfaces by Marti A. Hearst Pdf

The truly world-wide reach of the Web has brought with it a new realisation of the enormous importance of usability and user interface design. In the last ten years, much has become understood about what works in search interfaces from a usability perspective, and what does not. Researchers and practitioners have developed a wide range of innovative interface ideas, but only the most broadly acceptable make their way into major web search engines. This book summarizes these developments, presenting the state of the art of search interface design, both in academic research and in deployment in commercial systems. Many books describe the algorithms behind search engines and information retrieval systems, but the unique focus of this book is specifically on the user interface. It will be welcomed by industry professionals who design systems that use search interfaces as well as graduate students and academic researchers who investigate information systems.

Author : Bruce Tognazzini
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Professional
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0201489171

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Tog on Software Design by Bruce Tognazzini Pdf

Do you need a break from all the code - intensive, heavily technical books you usually pour over? Interface visionary Bruce & "Tog & " Tognazziniwill refocus your sights on the horizon with an eye - opening view of how the computer and communication industries together are poised to transform our home, education, and work lives. This readable book offers revealing, provocative, and sometimes controversial insights on a broad sampling of technology topics from quality management to the meaning of standards. Taken together, these insights furnish a forward - looking blueprint for successful software development for the future.

Author : Efthimios Alepis,Maria Virvou
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783642538513

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Object-Oriented User Interfaces for Personalized Mobile Learning by Efthimios Alepis,Maria Virvou Pdf

This book presents recent research in mobile learning and advanced user interfaces. It is shown how the combination of these fields can result in personalized educational software that meets the requirements of state-of-the-art mobile learning software. This book provides a framework that is capable of incorporating the software technologies, exploiting a wide range of their current advances and additionally investigating ways to go even further by providing potential solutions to future challenges. The presented approach uses the well-known Object-Oriented method in order to address these challenges. Throughout this book, a general model is constructed using Object-Oriented Architecture. Each chapter focuses on the construction of a specific part of this model, while in the conclusion these parts are unified. This book will help software engineers build more sophisticated personalized software that targets in mobile education, while at the same time retaining a high level of adaptivity and user-friendliness within human-mobile interaction.

Author : Joseph Tabbi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474230278

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature by Joseph Tabbi Pdf

A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2018 The digital age has had a profound impact on literary culture, with new technologies opening up opportunities for new forms of literary art from hyperfiction to multi-media poetry and narrative-driven games. Bringing together leading scholars and artists from across the world, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature is the first authoritative reference handbook to the field. Crossing disciplinary boundaries, this book explores the foundational theories of the field, contemporary artistic practices, debates and controversies surrounding such key concepts as canonicity, world systems, narrative and the digital humanities, and historical developments and new media contexts of contemporary electronic literature. Including guides to major publications in the field, The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature is an essential resource for scholars of contemporary culture in the digital era.

Author : Maria Engberg,Iben Have,Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000829129

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The Digital Reading Condition by Maria Engberg,Iben Have,Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen Pdf

This volume offers a critical overview of digital reading practices and scholarly efforts to analyze and understand reading in the mediatized landscape. Building on research about digital reading, born-digital literature, and digital audiobooks, The Digital Reading Condition explores reading as part of a broader cultural shift encompassing many forms of media and genres. Bringing together research from media and literary studies, digital humanities, scholarship on reading and learning, as well as sensory studies and research on multimodal and multisensory media reception, the authors address and challenge print-biased conceptions of reading that are still prevalent in research, whether the reading medium is print or digital. They argue that the act of reading itself is changing, and rather than rejecting digital media as unsuitable for sustained or focused reading practices, they argue that the complex media landscape challenges us to rethink how to define reading as a mediated practice. Presenting a truly interdisciplinary perspective on digital reading practices, this volume will appeal to scholars and graduate students in communication, media studies, new media and technology, literature, digital humanities, literacy studies, composition, and rhetoric.

Author : Adam Koehler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781472591968

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Composition, Creative Writing Studies, and the Digital Humanities by Adam Koehler Pdf

In an era of blurred generic boundaries, multimedia storytelling, and open-source culture, creative writing scholars stand poised to consider the role that technology-and the creative writer's playful engagement with technology-has occupied in the evolution of its theory and practice. Composition, Creative Writing Studies and the Digital Humanities is the first book to bring these three fields together to open up new opportunities and directions for creative writing studies. Placing the rise of Creative Writing Studies alongside the rise of the digital humanities in Composition/Rhetoric, Adam Koehler shows that the use of new media and its attendant re-evaluation of fundamental assumptions in the field stands to guide Creative Writing Studies into a new era. Covering current developments in composition and the digital humanities, this book re-examines established assumptions about process, genre, authority/authorship and pedagogical practice in the creative writing classroom.