Socio Technical Design Of Ubiquitous Computing Systems

Author : Klaus David,Kurt Geihs,Jan Marco Leimeister,Alexander Roßnagel,Ludger Schmidt,Gerd Stumme,Arno Wacker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319050447

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Socio-technical Design of Ubiquitous Computing Systems by Klaus David,Kurt Geihs,Jan Marco Leimeister,Alexander Roßnagel,Ludger Schmidt,Gerd Stumme,Arno Wacker Pdf

By using various data inputs, ubiquitous computing systems detect their current usage context, automatically adapt their services to the user’s situational needs and interact with other services or resources in their environment on an ad-hoc basis. Designing such self-adaptive, context-aware knowledge processing systems is, in itself, a formidable challenge. This book presents core findings from the VENUS project at the Interdisciplinary Research Center for Information System Design (ITeG) at Kassel University, where researchers from different fields, such as computer science, information systems, human-computer interaction and law, together seek to find general principles and guidelines for the design of socially aware ubiquitous computing systems. To this end, system usability, user trust in the technology and adherence to privacy laws and regulations were treated as particularly important criteria in the context of socio-technical system design. During the project, a comprehensive blueprint for systematic, interdisciplinary software development was developed, covering the particular functional and non-functional design aspects of ubiquitous computing at the interface between technology and human beings. The organization of the book reflects the structure of the VENUS work program. After an introductory part I, part II provides the groundwork for VENUS by presenting foundational results from all four disciplines involved. Subsequently, part III focuses on methodological research funneling the development activities into a common framework. Part IV then covers the design of the demonstrators that were built in order to develop and evaluate the VENUS method. Finally, part V is dedicated to the evaluation phase to assess the user acceptance of the new approach and applications. The presented findings are especially important for researchers in computer science, information systems, and human-computer interaction, but also for everyone working on the acceptance of new technologies in society in general.

Author : Carsten Sørensen,Youngjin Yoo,Kalle Lyytinen,Janice I. DeGross
Publisher : Springer
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-17
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780387289182

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Designing Ubiquitous Information Environments: Socio-Technical Issues and Challenges by Carsten Sørensen,Youngjin Yoo,Kalle Lyytinen,Janice I. DeGross Pdf

This book records one of the continuous attempts of the IFIP Working Group 8. 2, studying the interaction of information systems and the organization, to explore and understand the shifting boundaries and dependencies between organizational activities and their computer support. The book marks the result of the IFIP WG 8. 2 conference on "Designing Ubiquitous Information Environments: Socio-Technical Issues and Challenges. " Since its inception in the late 1970s, IFIP WG 8. 2 has sought to understand how computer-based information systems interact and must be designed as an integrated part of the organizational design. At that time, information systems handled repetitive and remote back-office functions and the main concern was work task design for repetitive input tasks and the potential impact of improved information support on organizational decision-making and structure. The focus of the information system design shifted in the 1980s when computers became part of the furniture and moved into the office. Reflecting this significant change, IFIP WG 8. 2 in 1989 organized a conference dedicated to the design and impact of desktop technology in order to examine how organizational processes and the locus of action changed when the computer was moved into the office. Sixteen years later, we are experiencing another significant change. Computers are now becoming part of our body and sensory system and will move out of the traditional office locations and into the wilderness. Again, IFIP WG 8.

Author : Baraki, Harun,Geihs, Kurt,Hoffmann, Axel,Voigtmann, Christian,Kniewel, Romy,Macek, Björn-Elmar,Zirfas, Julia
Publisher : kassel university press GmbH
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783862195572

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Towards Interdisciplinary Design Patterns for Ubiquitous Computing Aplications by Baraki, Harun,Geihs, Kurt,Hoffmann, Axel,Voigtmann, Christian,Kniewel, Romy,Macek, Björn-Elmar,Zirfas, Julia Pdf

Author : Theng, Yin-Leng,Duh, Henry B. L.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781599046952

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Ubiquitous Computing: Design, Implementation and Usability by Theng, Yin-Leng,Duh, Henry B. L. Pdf

Interactive systems in the mobile, ubiquitous, and virtual environments are at a stage of development where designers and developers are keen to find out more about design, use and usability of these systems. Ubiquitous Computing: Design, Implementation and Usability highlights the emergent usability theories, techniques, tools and best practices in these environments. This book shows that usable and useful systems are able to be achieved in ways that will improve usability to enhance user experiences. Research on the usability issues for young children, teenagers, adults, and the elderly is presented, with different techniques for the mobile, ubiquitous, and virtual environments.

Author : Whitworth, Brian,de Moor, Aldo
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 1034 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781605662657

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Handbook of Research on Socio-Technical Design and Social Networking Systems by Whitworth, Brian,de Moor, Aldo Pdf

Addresses current issues of research into socio-technical systems (STSs). Provides suggestions on how social knowledge can synergize with technical knowledge.

Author : Fei Hu,Ali Mostashari,Jiang Xie
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-17
Category : Computers
ISBN : 143980981X

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Socio-Technical Networks by Fei Hu,Ali Mostashari,Jiang Xie Pdf

While there are sporadic journal articles on socio-technical networks, there’s long been a need for an integrated resource that addresses concrete socio-technical network (STN) design issues from algorithmic and engineering perspectives. Filling this need, Socio-Technical Networks: Science and Engineering Design provides a complete introduction to the fundamentals of one of the hottest research areas across the social sciences, networking, and computer science—including its definition, historical background, and models. Covering basic STN architecture from a physical/technological perspective, the book considers the system design process in a typical STN, including inputs, processes/actions, and outputs/products. It covers current applications, including transportation networks, energy systems, tele-healthcare, financial networks, and the World Wide Web. A group of STN expert contributors addresses privacy and security topics in the interdependent context of critical infrastructure, which include risk models, trust models, and privacy preserving schemes. Covers the physical and technological designs in a typical STN Considers STN applications in popular fields, such as healthcare and the virtual community Details a method for mapping and measuring complexity, uncertainty, and interactions among STN components The book examines the most important STN models, including graph theory, inferring agent dynamics, decision theory, and information mining. It also explains structural studies, behavioral studies, and agent/actor system studies and policy studies in different STN contexts. Complete with in-depth case studies, this book supplies the practical insight needed to address contemporary STN design issues.

Author : Vittorio Loreto,Muki Haklay,Andreas Hotho,Vito D.P. Servedio,Gerd Stumme,Jan Theunis,Francesca Tria
Publisher : Springer
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319256580

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Participatory Sensing, Opinions and Collective Awareness by Vittorio Loreto,Muki Haklay,Andreas Hotho,Vito D.P. Servedio,Gerd Stumme,Jan Theunis,Francesca Tria Pdf

This book introduces and reviews recent advances in the field in a comprehensive and non-technical way by focusing on the potential of emerging citizen-science and social-computation frameworks, coupled with the latest theoretical and modeling tools developed by physicists, mathematicians, computer and social scientists to analyse, interpret and visualize complex data sets. There is overwhelming evidence that the current organisation of our economies and societies is seriously damaging biological ecosystems and human living conditions in the short term, with potentially catastrophic effects in the long term. The need to re-organise the daily activities with the greatest impact – energy consumption, transport, housing – towards a more efficient and sustainable development model has recently been raised in the public debate on several global, environmental issues. Above all, this requires the mismatch between global, societal and individual needs to be addressed. Recent advances in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) can trigger important transitions at the individual and collective level to achieve this aim. Based on the findings of the collaborative research network EveryAware the following developments among the emerging ICT technologies are discussed in depth in this volume: • Participatory sensing – where ICT development is pushed to the level where it can support informed action at the hyperlocal scale, providing capabilities for environmental monitoring, data aggregation and mining, as well as information presentation and sharing. • Web gaming, social computing and internet-mediated collaboration – where the Web will continue to acquire the status of an infrastructure for social computing, allowing users’ cognitive abilities to be coordinated in online communities, and steering the collective action towards predefined goals. • Collective awareness and decision-making – where the access to both personal and community data, collected by users, processed with suitable analysis tools, and re-presented in an appropriate format by usable communication interfaces leads to a bottom-up development of collective social strategies.

Author : Víctor Rodríguez-Doncel,Monica Palmirani,Michał Araszkiewicz,Pompeu Casanovas,Ugo Pagallo,Giovanni Sartor
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-26
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030898113

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AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems XI-XII by Víctor Rodríguez-Doncel,Monica Palmirani,Michał Araszkiewicz,Pompeu Casanovas,Ugo Pagallo,Giovanni Sartor Pdf

This book includes revised selected papers from the International Workshops on AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems, AICOL-XI@JURIX2018, held in Groningen, The Netherlands, on December 12, 2018; AICOL-XII@JURIX 2020, held in Brno, Czechia, on December 9, 2020; XAILA@JURIX 2020, held in in Brno, Czechia, on December 9, 2020.*The 17 full and 4 short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected form 39 submissions. They represent a comprehensive picture of the state of the art in legal informatics. The papers are logically organized in 5 blocks: ​Knowledge Representation; Logic, rules, and reasoning; Explainable AI in Law and Ethics; Law as Web of linked Data and the Rule of Law; Data protection and Privacy Modelling and Reasoning. *Due to the Covid-19 pandemic AICOL-XII@JURIX 2020 and XAILA@JURIX 2020 were held virtually.

Author : Evangelia Mitleton-Kelly
Publisher : Springer
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783642366147

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Co-evolution of Intelligent Socio-technical Systems by Evangelia Mitleton-Kelly Pdf

As the interconnectivity between humans through technical devices is becoming ubiquitous, the next step is already in the making: ambient intelligence, i.e. smart (technical) environments, which will eventually play the same active role in communication as the human players, leading to a co-evolution in all domains where real-time communication is essential. This topical volume, based on the findings of the Socionical European research project, gives equal attention to two highly relevant domains of applications: transport, specifically traffic, dynamics from the viewpoint of a socio-technical interaction and evacuation scenarios for large-scale emergency situations. Care was taken to investigate as much as possible the limits of scalability and to combine the modeling using complex systems science approaches with relevant data analysis.

Author : Håkan Gulliksson
Publisher : Videoiterna
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-19
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789198028096

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Pervasive Computing Design for Sustainability by Håkan Gulliksson Pdf

This book contains the knowledge an interaction designer should know about pervasive design for sustainability. Relevant design research is discussed and framed in a story and value based participatory approach. Sustainability is the most important design goal. This is the first message. A second message is that information technologies, and in particular pervasive computing are invaluable keys in the quest for sustainability. Thirdly there is a lack of knowledge on sustainability issues in the interaction design community. In this book a unique meta-level framework structures an extensive discussion of design for sustainability. The framework is based on a principle of justice that is complemented by circumstances for sustainability chosen from the perspective of interaction design. We suggest and present the following circumstances: limited shared resources, socio-technical components and structures, technology development, vision and reflection, cognitive and behavioural support, joint ventures and political action. Topics discussed within the circumstances include experience design, ethics, Latours’s modes of existence, design fiction, computer games, futures studies, theories for reflection and behavioural change, personal informatics, and practice theory. The convolute concludes with a number of case studies where interaction design research is summarized and studied from the perspective of sustainability. We start out with thoughts on sustainable consumption, sustainable character, and the sustainable family that gets a section each. Adding to them are annotated case studies from research on design fiction, game and performance, value based design, practice theory, multi-level perspective design and design for a sustainable society. The book is a polyphonic convolute which means that there will be some overlap in the reports from the different discourses. Development in the areas related to interaction design can be sensed by identifying the surfacing themes. In total the e-book consists of the equivalence of 530 pages excluding references and index. Håkan Gulliksson is a lecturer on Interaction technology and Sustainable design at Umeå University for more than ten years.

Author : Jan Pries-Heje,John J. Venable,Deborah Bunker,Nancy L. Russo,Janice I. DeGross
Publisher : Springer
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642121135

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Human Benefit through the Diffusion of Information Systems Design Science Research by Jan Pries-Heje,John J. Venable,Deborah Bunker,Nancy L. Russo,Janice I. DeGross Pdf

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 2010 Joint International Working C- ference of the International Federation for Information Processing Working Groups 8.2 and 8.6. Both working groups are part of IFIP Technical Committee 8, the tech- cal committee addressing the field of Information Systems. IFIP WG 8.2, the Inter- tion of Information Systems and Organizations, was established in 1977. IFIP WG 8.6, Diffusion, Transfer and Implementation of Information Technology, was est- lished in 1994. In accordance with their respective themes, both IFIP WG 8.2 and IFIP WG 8.6 have long had an interest in the human impact of information systems. In December 1998, they held a joint working conference in Helsinki, Finland, on the theme “Inf- mation Systems: Current Issues and Future Challenges.” The two working groups’ joint interest in and collaboration on research concerning the human side of IS is c- tinued and extended through this joint working conference, held on the campus of Curtin University of Technology, from March 30 to April 1, 2010, in Perth, Western Australia. This conference, “Human Benefit Through the Diffusion of Information Systems Design Science Research,” combines the traditional themes of the two working groups with the growing interest within the IS research field in the area of design science research.

Author : Masaaki Kurosu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319209166

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Human-Computer Interaction: Interaction Technologies by Masaaki Kurosu Pdf

The 3-volume set LNCS 9169, 9170, 9171 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2015, held in Los Angeles, CA, USA, in August 2015. The total of 1462 papers and 246 posters presented at the HCII 2015 conferences was carefully reviewed and selected from 4843 submissions. These papers address the latest research and development efforts and highlight the human aspects of design and use of computing systems. The papers in LNCS 9170 are organized in topical sections on gesture and eye-gaze based interaction; touch-based and haptic interaction; natural user interfaces; adaptive and personalized interfaces; distributed, migratory and multi-screen user interfaces; games and gamification; HCI in smart and intelligent environments.

Author : Dieter Fensel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-21
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642197970

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Foundations for the Web of Information and Services by Dieter Fensel Pdf

In the mid 1990s, Tim Berners-Lee had the idea of developing the World Wide Web into a „Semantic Web“, a web of information that could be interpreted by machines in order to allow the automatic exploitation of data, which until then had to be done by humans manually. One of the first people to research topics related to the Semantic Web was Professor Rudi Studer. From the beginning, Rudi drove projects like ONTOBROKER and On-to-Knowledge, which later resulted in W3C standards such as RDF and OWL. By the late 1990s, Rudi had established a research group at the University of Karlsruhe, which later became the nucleus and breeding ground for Semantic Web research, and many of today’s well-known research groups were either founded by his disciples or benefited from close cooperation with this think tank. In this book, published in celebration of Rudi’s 60th birthday, many of his colleagues look back on the main research results achieved during the last 20 years. Under the editorship of Dieter Fensel, once one of Rudi’s early PhD students, an impressive list of contributors and contributions has been collected, covering areas like Knowledge Management, Ontology Engineering, Service Management, and Semantic Search. Overall, this book provides an excellent overview of the state of the art in Semantic Web research, by combining historical roots with the latest results, which may finally make the dream of a “Web of knowledge, software and services” come true.

Author : Kikuo Asai
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789537619145

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Human Computer Interaction by Kikuo Asai Pdf

The book consists of 20 chapters, each addressing a certain aspect of human-computer interaction. Each chapter gives the reader background information on a subject and proposes an original solution. This should serve as a valuable tool for professionals in this interdisciplinary field. Hopefully, readers will contribute their own discoveries and improvements, innovative ideas and concepts, as well as novel applications and business models related to the field of human-computer interaction. It is our wish that the reader consider not only what our authors have written and the experimentation they have described, but also the examples they have set.

Author : Christoph Scholz
Publisher : kassel university press GmbH
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783737600866

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Link Mining and Localisation in the Context of Face-to-Face Contact Networks by Christoph Scholz Pdf

For a long time an automatic detection of contacts between humans was not possible. In this work a new generation of resource-aware RFID tags (proximity tags) is used which has the ability to detect reliable face-to-face contacts. This innovation opens up new research possibilities in the ?elds of human contact behaviour analysis, link prediction and indoor localisation. In this context the identi?cation of human contact structures and their underlying pro¬cesses is a prominent research topic. However, the analysis of of?ine social networks has been largely neglected. In this work face-to-face information is utilised to study the link prediction problem as well as dynamic and static contact patterns in face-to-face contact networks. Furthermore the in?uence of user interests and social contacts on the predictability of talk attendance is analysed. The localisation of humans in indoor environments is still a challenging problem. In literature, accurate positioning approaches exist. Unfortunately, these approaches requi¬re expensive hardware and an extensive deployment of suitable infrastructure. Therefo¬re novel approaches are presented that use proximity tags for positioning. All methods are evaluated using real-world data and it is shown that all approaches signi?cantly outperform state-of-the art indoor localisation approaches.