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Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and User Interface Design is a forward-thinking compilation of reviews that explores the intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and User Interface (UI) design. The book showcases recent advancements, emerging trends and the transformative impact of these technologies on digital experiences and technologies. The editors have compiled 14 multidisciplinary topics contributed by over 40 experts, covering foundational concepts of AI and ML, and progressing through intricate discussions on recent algorithms and models. Case studies and practical applications illuminate theoretical concepts, providing readers with actionable insights. From neural network architectures to intuitive interface prototypes, the book covers the entire spectrum, ensuring a holistic understanding of the interplay between these domains. Use cases of AI and ML highlighted in the book include categorization and management of waste, taste perception of tea, bird species identification, content-based image retrieval, natural language processing, code clone detection, knowledge representation, tourism recommendation systems and solid waste management. Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and User Interface Design aims to inform a diverse readership, including computer science students, AI and ML software engineers, UI/UX designers, researchers, and tech enthusiasts. Readership Computer science students, AI and ML software engineers, UI/UX designers, researchers, and tech enthusiasts.

What does later life look like when it is lived in the companionship of other species?Similarly, how do other species age (or not) with humans, and what sort of (a)symmetries, if any, are brought to light around how we understand and think about aging?So far, aging has been investigated in the social sciences in purely human terms.

Ever since the term \"crowdsourcing\" was coined in 2006 byWiredwriter Jeff Howe, group activities ranging from the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary to the choosing of new colors for M&Ms have been labeled with this most buzz-generating of media buzzwords. In this accessible but authoritative account, grounded in the empirical literature, Daren Brabham explains what crowdsourcing is, what it is not, and how it works. Crowdsourcing, Brabham tells us, is an online, distributed problem solving and production model that leverages the collective intelligence of online communities for specific purposes set forth by a crowdsourcing organization -- corporate, government, or volunteer. Uniquely, it combines a bottom-up, open, creative process with top-down organizational goals. Crowdsourcing is not open source production, which lacks the top-down component; it is not a market research survey that offers participants a short list of choices; and it is qualitatively different from predigital open innovation and collaborative production processes, which lacked the speed, reach, rich capability, and lowered barriers to entry enabled by the Internet. Brabham describes the intellectual roots of the idea of crowdsourcing in such concepts as collective intelligence, the wisdom of crowds, and distributed computing. He surveys the major issues in crowdsourcing, including crowd motivation, the misconception of the amateur participant, crowdfunding, and the danger of \"crowdsploitation\" of volunteer labor, citing real-world examples from Threadless, InnoCentive, and other organizations. And he considers the future of crowdsourcing in both theory and practice, describing its possible roles in journalism, governance, national security, and science and health.

Human-Computer Interaction: An Empirical Research Perspective is the definitive guide to empirical research in HCI.The book begins with foundational topics including historical context, the human factor, interaction elements, and the fundamentals of science and research.

Cybercrimes are often viewed as technical offenses that require technical solutions, such as antivirus programs or automated intrusion detection tools. However, these crimes are committed by individuals or networks of people which prey upon human victims and are detected and prosecuted by criminal justice personnel. As a result, human decision-making plays a substantial role in the course of an offence, the justice response, and policymakers' attempts to legislate against these crimes. This book focuses on the human factor in cybercrime: its offenders, victims, and parties involved in tackling cybercrime. The distinct nature of cybercrime has consequences for the entire spectrum of crime and raises myriad questions about the nature of offending and victimization. For example, are cybercriminals the same as traditional offenders, or are there new offender types with distinct characteristics and motives? What foreground and situational characteristics influence the decision-making process of offenders? Which personal and situational characteristics provide an increased or decreased risk of cybercrime victimization? This book brings together leading criminologists from around the world to consider these questions and examine all facets of victimization, offending, offender networks, and policy responses.

The Eclipse of the Utopias of Labor traces the shift from the eighteenth-century concept of man as machine to the late twentieth-century notion of digital organisms. Step by step-from Jacques de Vaucanson and his Digesting Duck, through Karl Marx's Capital, Hermann von Helmholtz's social thermodynamics, Albert Speer's Beauty of Labor program in Nazi Germany, and on to the post-Fordist workplace, Rabinbach shows how society, the body, and labor utopias dreamt up future societies and worked to bring them about. This masterful follow-up to The Human Motor, Rabinbach's brilliant study of the European science of work, bridges intellectual history, labor history, and the history of the body. It shows the intellectual and policy reasons as to how a utopia of the body as motor won wide acceptance and moved beyond the \"man as machine\" model before tracing its steep decline after 1945-and along with it the eclipse of the great hopes that a more efficient workplace could provide the basis of a new, more socially satisfactory society.

This book discusses several methodological problems in traffic psychology which are not currently recognized as such. Summarizing and analyzing the available research, it is found that there are a number of commonly made assumptions about the validity of methods that have little backing, and that many basic problems have not been researched at all. Suggestions are made as to further studies that should be made to address some of these problems.

Virtual reality (VR) techniques are becoming increasingly popular. The use of computer modeling and visualization is no longer uncommon in the area of ergonomics and occupational health and safety. This book explains that studies conducted in a simulated virtual world make it possible to test new solutions of designed workstations, offering a high degree of ease for introducing modifications and eliminating risk and work-related accidents. Virtual reality techniques offer a wide range of possibilities for people with disabilities and special needs, assisting them in the process of adapting to workstations, increasing the cognitive abilities of the elderly, and using collaborative robots. The book includes testing protective devices and safety systems, as well as the numerical reconstruction of accidents at work to identify their real causes. It shows the use of computer simulations in generic virtual environments and environments modeled on a target workstation to allow user adaptability. The book provides examples of using virtual reality for training and improving workers’ skills. With the use of virtual reality, safety managers make it possible to train employees and test new solutions of designed workstations, offering a high degree of ease for introducing modifications and eliminating risk related to work. The virtual world will provide the perfect tool to support the engineering of a safer workplace environment. On the one hand, it is a self-study book made so by well-crafted and numerous examples. On the other hand, through a detailed analysis of the virtual reality from a point of view of work safety and ergonomics and health improvement, this book provides practical information for professionals and programmers responsible for the development and improvement of this type of applications. This monograph will be welcomed by virtual reality designers looking for new avenues of inspiration. Ewa Grabska, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland Noteworthy is the broad scope and diversity of the addressed problems, ranging from training employees using VR environments with different degrees of perceived reality; training and rehabilitation of the elderly; to designing, testing, modifying, and adapting workplaces to various needs including those of disabled workers; to simulation and investigation of the cause of accidents at a workplace, as well as testing protective devices and strategies to avoid or minimize their fatal outcomes. The book contains many original and unique results supported by advanced methods of collecting and analyzing the data, elaborate research, and detailed statistical tests. The book can serve also as a concise manual on the issues touched on in the text. Andrzej Krawiecki, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland