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Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds For The Better
by Clive ThompsonFrom the ‘Wired’ and ‘New York Times Magazine’ contributor, a brilliant examination into how the internet is profoundly changing the way we think.
SmartKom: Foundations of Multimodal Dialogue Systems (Cognitive Technologies)
by Wolfgang WahlsterWith contributions by leading scientists in the field, this book gives the first comprehensive overview of the results of the seminal SmartKom project – one of the most advanced multimodal dialogue systems worldwide.
SmartParticipation: A Fuzzy-Based Recommender System for Political Community-Building (Fuzzy Management Methods)
by Luis Fernando Terán TamayoIn this book a fuzzy-based recommender system architecture for stimulating political participation and collaboration is proposed. It showcases the "Smart Participation" project, which uses the database of "smart vote", a well-known voting advice application (VAA) for local, cantonal and national elections in Switzerland. Additionally, an evaluation framework for e Participation is presented, which allows to analyze different projects and their development towards the enhancement of citizen's participation and empowerment. The book demonstrates the potential for building political communities and the stimulation of civic participation.
Smartphone-Based Human Activity Recognition (Springer Theses)
by Jorge Luis Reyes OrtizThe book reports on the author’s original work to address the use of today’s state-of-the-art smartphones for human physical activity recognition. By exploiting the sensing, computing and communication capabilities currently available in these devices, the author developed a novel smartphone-based activity-recognition system, which takes into consideration all aspects of online human activity recognition, from experimental data collection, to machine learning algorithms and hardware implementation. The book also discusses and describes solutions to some of the challenges that arose during the development of this approach, such as real-time operation, high accuracy, low battery consumption and unobtrusiveness. It clearly shows that it is possible to perform real-time recognition of activities with high accuracy using current smartphone technologies. As well as a detailed description of the methods, this book also provides readers with a comprehensive review of the fundamental concepts in human activity recognition. It also gives an accurate analysis of the most influential works in the field and discusses them in detail. This thesis was supervised by both the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (primary institution) and University of Genoa (secondary institution) as part of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate in Interactive and Cognitive Environments.
Smartphone-Based Indoor Map Construction: Principles and Applications (SpringerBriefs in Computer Science)
by Ruipeng Gao Fan Ye Guojie Luo Jason CongThis book focuses on ubiquitous indoor localization services, specifically addressing the issue of floor plans. It combines computer vision algorithms and mobile techniques to reconstruct complete and accurate floor plans to provide better location-based services for both humans and vehicles via commodity smartphones in indoor environments (e.g., a multi-layer shopping mall with underground parking structures). After a comprehensive review of scene reconstruction methods, it offers accurate geometric information for each landmark from images and acoustics, and derives the spatial relationships of the landmarks and rough sketches of accessible areas with inertial and WiFi data to reduce computing overheads. It then presents the authors’ recent findings in detail, including the optimization and probabilistic formulations for more solid foundations and better robustness to combat errors, several new approaches to promote the current sporadic availability of indoor location-based services, and a holistic solution for floor plan reconstruction, indoor localization, tracking, and navigation. The novel approaches presented are designed for different types of indoor environments (e.g., shopping malls, office buildings and labs) and different users. A valuable resource for researchers and those in start-ups working in the field, it also provides supplementary material for students with mobile computing and networking backgrounds.
Smartphone Communication: Interactions in the App Ecosystem (Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture)
by Francisco YusThis book offers a unique model for understanding the cognitive underpinnings, interactions and discursive effects of our evolving use of smartphones in everyday app-mediated communication, from text messages and GIFs to images, video and social media apps. Adopting a cyberpragmatics framework, grounded in cognitive pragmatics and relevance theory, it gives attention to how both the particular interfaces of different apps and users’ personal attributes influence the contexts and uses of smartphone communication. The communication of emotions – in addition to primarily linguistic content – is foregrounded as an essential element of the kinds of ever-present paralinguistic and phatic communication that characterises our exchange of memes, GIFs, "likes," and image- and video-based content. Insights from related disciplines such as media studies and sociology are incorporated as the author unpacks the timeliest questions of our digitally mediated age. Aimed primarily at scholars and graduate students of communication, linguistics, pragmatics, media studies, and sociology of mass media, Smartphone Communication traffics in topics that will likewise engage upper-level undergraduate students.
Smartphone Communication: Interactions in the App Ecosystem (Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture)
by Francisco YusThis book offers a unique model for understanding the cognitive underpinnings, interactions and discursive effects of our evolving use of smartphones in everyday app-mediated communication, from text messages and GIFs to images, video and social media apps. Adopting a cyberpragmatics framework, grounded in cognitive pragmatics and relevance theory, it gives attention to how both the particular interfaces of different apps and users’ personal attributes influence the contexts and uses of smartphone communication. The communication of emotions – in addition to primarily linguistic content – is foregrounded as an essential element of the kinds of ever-present paralinguistic and phatic communication that characterises our exchange of memes, GIFs, "likes," and image- and video-based content. Insights from related disciplines such as media studies and sociology are incorporated as the author unpacks the timeliest questions of our digitally mediated age. Aimed primarily at scholars and graduate students of communication, linguistics, pragmatics, media studies, and sociology of mass media, Smartphone Communication traffics in topics that will likewise engage upper-level undergraduate students.
Smartphone Operating System Concepts with Symbian OS: A Tutorial Guide (Symbian Press #16)
by Michael J. JippingSmartphone Operating System Concepts with Symbian OS uses Symbian OS as a vehicle to discuss operating system concepts as they are applied to mobile operating systems.It is this focus that makes this tutorial guide both invaluable and extremely relevant for today's student.In addition to presenting and discussing operating system concepts, this book also includes exercises that compare and contrast Symbian OS, Unix/Linux and Microsoft Windows. These assignments can be worked on in a classroom laboratory or in a student's own time. The book is replete with examples (both conceptual and applied to handhelds) as well as: * Summaries at the end of each chapter. * Problems the students can do as homework. * Experiment-oriented exercises and questions for students to complete on a handheld device * A reading list, bibliography and a list of sources for handheld software It also contains a series of on-line laboratories based on the software developed for Symbian OS devices. Students can perform these labs anywhere, and can use printing and e-mail facilities to construct lab write-ups and hand in assignments. Students, for the first time, will be taught Symbian OS concepts so that they can start developing smartphone applications and become part of the mass-market revolution.
Smartphones as Mobile Minilabs in Physics: Edited Volume Featuring more than 70 Examples from 10 Years The Physics Teacher-column iPhysicsLabs
by Jochen Kuhn Patrik VogtThis book presents more than 70 physics experiments from iPhysicsLabs-column of the Journal The Physics Teacher. The articles are aimed at physics lecturers, trainee teachers and teachers who want to take their classes to the next level using digital devices. The experiments can easily be performed and analyzed using smartphones or tablets. The topics span from mechanics, optics, thermodynamics, astrophysics and astronomy to acoustics, electrodynamics and electronics.Authors worldwide have contributed to this series of articles. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of iPhysicsLabs, Jochen Kuhn and Patrik Vogt have collected more than 70 most popular and interesting articles for this book.
Smartphones, Current Events and Mobile Information Behavior: Consuming, Reacting, Sharing, and Connecting through News
by Kyong Eun Oh Rong TangSmartphones and Information on Current Events provides unprecedented insights into young people’s news consumption patterns and the ecology of mobile news. Advancing our knowledge of mobile behaviour, the book also highlights the ways in which mobile news impacts the lives of the general public. Using a multi-faceted research model on mobile news consumption behaviour, Oh and Tang examined a wide spectrum of mobile news consumption activities, outlined the key characteristics of mobile news, as well as captured users’ near real-time evaluation of and emotional reactions to news stories. The book also shows that the process of using smartphones to receive, read, find, share, and store news stories has resulted in new behavioural patterns that enable people to consume news in a multifaceted way. Analyzing the extent and various methods of mobile news sharing can, Oh and Tang argue, help us understand how such exchanges reshape contemporary society. Demonstrating that mobile news consumption is now an integral part of people’s daily lives, the book clearly shows that its impact on people’s day-to-day activities, and their political and social lives, cannot be underestimated. Smartphones and Information on Current Events will be useful to scholars, students, and practitioners who are studying library and information science, journalism and media, digital communication, user behaviour, information technology, human-computer interaction, marketing, political science, psychology, and sociology.
Smartphones, Current Events and Mobile Information Behavior: Consuming, Reacting, Sharing, and Connecting through News
by Kyong Eun Oh Rong TangSmartphones and Information on Current Events provides unprecedented insights into young people’s news consumption patterns and the ecology of mobile news. Advancing our knowledge of mobile behaviour, the book also highlights the ways in which mobile news impacts the lives of the general public. Using a multi-faceted research model on mobile news consumption behaviour, Oh and Tang examined a wide spectrum of mobile news consumption activities, outlined the key characteristics of mobile news, as well as captured users’ near real-time evaluation of and emotional reactions to news stories. The book also shows that the process of using smartphones to receive, read, find, share, and store news stories has resulted in new behavioural patterns that enable people to consume news in a multifaceted way. Analyzing the extent and various methods of mobile news sharing can, Oh and Tang argue, help us understand how such exchanges reshape contemporary society. Demonstrating that mobile news consumption is now an integral part of people’s daily lives, the book clearly shows that its impact on people’s day-to-day activities, and their political and social lives, cannot be underestimated. Smartphones and Information on Current Events will be useful to scholars, students, and practitioners who are studying library and information science, journalism and media, digital communication, user behaviour, information technology, human-computer interaction, marketing, political science, psychology, and sociology.
Smartphones unterstützen die Mobilitätsforschung: Neue Einblicke in das Mobilitätsverhalten durch Wege-Tracking
by Marc Schelewsky Helga Jonuschat Benno Bock Korinna StephanDas Buch orientiert sich an drei thematischen Schwerpunkten. Nach einer Einleitung zum Forschungsstand widmet sich der erste Schwerpunkt „Das elektronische Wegetagebuch“ Praxisberichten bzw. Methodenkonzepten. Der zweite Schwerpunkt fokussiert die technischen Aspekte der Erfassung von Wegedaten. Dabei wird auf unterschiedliche Ortungstechnologien Bezug genommen, auf Methoden der Ortung und auf Anwendungsfälle eingegangen. Der dritte Schwerpunkt richtet den Blick auf den Nutzer. Hier stehen vor allem Fragen zum Datenschutz und zur Akzeptanz sowie zur Nutzerintegration im Postprozessing der Datenaufbereitung im Vordergrund. Das Buch schließt mit einer Zusammenfassung der wesentlichen Ergebnisse und einem Ausblick über Anforderungen an ein Smartphone basiertes Wegetracking als wissenschaftliche Methode.
SmartSchool - Die Schule von morgen
by Detlef SteppuhnDer technologische Wandel gewinnt rasant an Tempo – alle Schulen müssen sich dieser Herausforderung zeitnah stellen. Dieses Sachbuch erläutert, welche Technologien warum in Schulen zum Einsatz kommen müssen und welche besonderen Fortbildungs- und Supportkonzepte sie wirklich benötigen, wozu SmartTeams gebraucht werden und welche Bedeutung Robotik, KI, Virtual Reality, eSports und Wettbewerbe für den Unterricht haben. Alle Beteiligten erhalten viele Anregungen, Tipps, Ideen und Beispiele für den erfolgreichen Weg zu einer – auch, wenn viele das Wort noch scheuen – SmartSchool. Kritisch hinterfragen die Autoren, warum es (noch) keine guten digitalen Unterrichtsmaterialien gibt und warum Schulen und Schulträger intensiver zusammenarbeiten müssen. Denn SmartSchools sind die Schulen von morgen! - Mit Online-Zusatzmaterialien.
SmartShadow: Models and Methods for Pervasive Computing (Advanced Topics in Science and Technology in China)
by Zhaohui Wu Gang PanSmartShadow: Models and Methods for Pervasive Computing offers a new perspective on pervasive computing with SmartShadow, which is designed to model a user as a personality “shadow” and to model pervasive computing environments as user-centric dynamic virtual personal spaces. Just like human beings’ shadows in the physical world, it follows people wherever they go, providing them with pervasive services. The model, methods, and software infrastructure for SmartShadow are presented and an application for smart cars is also introduced. The book can serve as a valuable reference work for researchers and graduate students in the field of pervasive/ubiquitous computing.Zhaohui Wu is a Professor at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. Gang Pan is a Professor at the same institute.
SmartWatch Design Fundamentals: WatchFace Design for Samsung Galaxy SmartWatches
by Wallace JacksonGain concepts central to smartwatch design, editing and animation correction using the popular open source Galaxy Watch Designer software package. This visual guide builds upon the essential concepts of smartwatch design, decoration, digital imaging, animation, function integration, and visual effects, and gets more advanced as chapters progress, covering which digital new media file formats (JPEG, PNG, GIF, etc.) are best for use with smartwatch design.Smart Watch Design Fundamentals also covers key factors in the data footprint optimization work process, designing and optimizing animation assets, and why these optimizations are important. Additionally, the book covers other advanced topics such as how to provide free smartwatch faces for the first few days on the smartwatch store, and how to post watchface designs for sale in the store.What You'll Learn:Create a smartwatch design and visual effects pipelineGain knowledge of the concepts behind smartwatch designWork with resolution, aspect ratio, animation, and color depthUse smartwatch design components such as ticks, numerals, feature markers, dates, etc. Optimizing digital image asset data footprint to create small smartwatch design file sizesWho This Book Is For:This book is primarily for smart watch and fashion designers.
Smarty PHP Template Programming and Applications: Build Better Php Web Sites Using The Smarty Templating Engine
by Hasin Hayder Joao Prado Maia Lucian GheorgheUsing a step-by-step approach based on realistic examples, the expert authors show you how to use Smarty in your own PHP development. This book is written for PHP developers who want to use Smarty templates in their development, and for designers who are working with PHP developers who are using Smarty.
Smashing HTML5 (Smashing Magazine Book Series #12)
by Bill SandersWelcome to HTML5 - the future of the Web HTML5 is packed with great new features, including new content-specific elements, audio and video playback, canvas for drawing, and many others. But where to begin? With Smashing HTML5, you have everything you need to get up and running quickly. Bill Sanders is a professional Web developer, information and interface designer, and instructor. His expertise and knowledge shared throughout Smashing HTML5 will help fast-track you toward building next-generation Web sites. Smashing HTML5 provides comprehensive coverage - from how to get started with HTML5 to optimizing media on the Web. You will learn how to use text, graphics, audio, video, and navigation in HTML5 Web pages running in compatible browsers. You will also learn how to: Work with HTML5 tags Design page structure Make site navigation easy for your audience Integrate media including video into HTML5 pages Harness the power of the HTML5 canvas Use HTML 5 forms Create interactivity, store information, and much more Smashing HTML5 is an essential read for Web designers and developers looking to transition to HTML5. With this book, you'll be able to create Web pages that not only look great, but also take advantage of the new features HTML5 has to offer.
SMEs and New Technologies: Learning E-Business and Development
by B. Oyelaran-Oyeyinka K. LalThis books looks specifically at ICT adoption and learning trajectories in developing countries; a context characterized by skill deficiencies and weak institutional support. The authors employ a theoretical framework and research techniques to present firm-level evidence on learning in firms in an Internet-based production environment.
SMIL 3.0: Flexible Multimedia for Web, Mobile Devices and Daisy Talking Books (X.media.publishing)
by Dick C.A. Bulterman Lloyd W. RutledgeSMIL 3.0: Multimedia for the Web, Mobile Devices and Daisy Talking Books is a revised introduction to — and resource guide for — the W3C SMIL language. It covers all aspects of the SMIL specification and covers all of SMIL’s implem- tation profiles, from the desktop through the world of mobile SMIL devices. Based on the first version of the book, which covered SMIL 2.0, this edition has been updated with information from the past two releases of the SMIL l- guage. We have benefitted from comments and suggestions from many readers of the first edition, and have produced what we feel is the most comprehensive guide to SMIL available anywhere. Motivation for this Book While we were working on various phases of the SMIL recommendations, it became clear to us that the richness of the SMIL language could easily ov- whelm many Web authors and designers. In the 500+ pages that the SYMM working group needed to describe the 30+ SMIL elements and the 150+ SMIL attributes, there was not much room for background information or extensive examples. The focus of the specification was on implementation aspects of the SMIL language, not on the rationale or the potential uses of SMIL’s declarative power.
Smiley. Herzchen. Hashtag.: Zwischenmenschliche Kommunikation im Zeitalter von Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram @ Co. (Über/Strom: Wegweiser durchs digitale Zeitalter)
by Uta ButtkewitzLieber eine schnelle Sprachnachricht als ein persönlicher Anruf, ein Smiley statt eines Grußes – die Kommunikation verändert sich im digitalen Zeitalter. Kommunikation wird unverbindlich, aber gleichzeitig steigt der Kommunikationsdruck durch soziale Medien und Netzwerke. Wir stehen unter Druck, jederzeit schnell zu kommunizieren. In Ruhe einen Kaffee trinken, die Aussicht genießen? Geht nicht, jede WhatsApp muss umgehend beantwortet werden und die Likes unter dem Foto zählen mehr als der Genuss des Augenblicks. Viel zu kurz kommt bei all dem die zwischenmenschliche Kommunikation.Dieses Buch zeigt, wie aktuelle Kommunikationsmedien wie WhatsApp, Facebook oder Instagram die zwischenmenschliche Kommunikation beeinflussen und wie diese Veränderungen unsere Beziehungen und unser gesellschaftliches Zusammenleben schleichend verändern. Die Verfügbarkeit einer Vielzahl von Medien stellt uns vor große Herausforderungen. Wenn Sie sich schon immer gefragt haben, warum das Kommunizieren im Privat- oder Berufsleben plötzlich schwieriger geworden ist, finden Sie in diesem Buch Antworten darauf. Sie lernen, wie Sie im digitalen Zeitalter bei sich bleiben und sich nicht von kurzfristigen Erregungszuständen der Medien aus dem Gleichgewicht bringen lassen. Treffen Sie bewusste Entscheidungen für Medien und ihre Nutzung und erobern Sie Ihre kommunikative Selbstbestimmung zurück!
Smittestopp − A Case Study on Digital Contact Tracing (Simula SpringerBriefs on Computing #11)
This open access book describes Smittestopp, the first Norwegian system for digital contact tracing of Covid-19 infections, which was developed in March and early April 2020. The system was deployed after five weeks of development and was active for a little more than two months, when a drop in infection levels in Norway and privacy concerns led to shutting it down. The intention of this book is twofold. First, it reports on the design choices made in the development phase. Second, as one of the only systems in the world that collected population data into a central database and which was used for an entire population, we can share experience on how the design choices impacted the system's operation. By sharing lessons learned and the challenges faced during the development and deployment of the technology, we hope that this book can be a valuable guide for experts from different domains, such as big data collection and analysis, application development, and deployment in a national population, as well as digital tracing.
Smoke & Mirrors: How Hype Obscures the Future and How to See Past It
by Gemma Milne'Stop following the news until you've read Gemma Milne's persuasive analysis of the hype and bullshit that distort our understanding of emerging science. As she shows, the starting point to grasping the genuine opportunities of AI, life sciences and climate tech is a healthy dose of critical thinking'David Rowan, founding editor of WIRED UK and author of Non-Bullshit Innovation: Radical Ideas from the World's Smartest Minds'Couldn't be more timely. Fascinating and vitally important' Jamie Bartlett, author of The People Vs Tech 'A much-needed blast of fresh air! Gemma Milne expertly shows us how to separate the truth from the hype surrounding the emerging techs of today, and those of the near-tomorrow.' Lewis Dartnell, author of Origins: How the Earth Made Us'I loved this book! This is exactly the sort of sceptical, cut-through-the crap-but-still-excited-about-what's-emerging book around tech innovation that's sorely needed, yet is so hard to find . . . essential reading for anyone who's serious about how real-world advances might be effectively harnessed to build a better future.' Dr Andrew Maynard, scientist and author of Films from the Future and Future Rising'Smoke & Mirrors is a vital contribution in a world where technological progress promises so much, but too often disappoints. If, like me, you believe that advances in science and technology are our best hope for solving the grand challenges of our times, this book is the indispensable guide to avoiding the mirages and the charlatans along the way.' Matt Clifford, co-founder and CEO of Entrepreneur First'A refreshingly grown-up, clear-headed look at the interaction between science, technology and the media - readable without being dumbed down, acknowledging complexities without being heavy.' Tom Chivers, author of The AI Does Not Hate You'In this book, we see technological hype for what it is: not mere exuberance, but a form of attention-seeking. As some technological hucksters stake claims on our future and try to foreclose alternatives, we need strong defences. Gemma Milne offers a spotter's guide to hype, using science to bring speculation down to earth. People inside and outside the world of technological innovation need this book.' Jack Stilgoe, author of Who's Driving Innovation?'ROBOTS WILL STEAL YOUR JOB!''AI WILL REVOLUTIONISE FARMING!''GENETIC EDITING WILL CURE CANCER!'Bombastic headlines about science and technology are nothing new. To cut through the constant stream of information and misinformation on social media, or grab the attention of investors, or convince governments to take notice, strident headlines or bold claims seem necessary to give complex, nuanced information some wow factor.But hype has a dark side, too.It can mislead. It can distract. It can blinker us from seeing what is actually going on.From AI, quantum computing and brain implants, to cancer drugs, future foods and fusion energy, science and technology journalist Gemma Milne reveals hype to be responsible for fundamentally misdirecting or even derailing crucial progress.Hype can be combated and discounted, though, if you're able to see exactly where, how and why it is being deployed.This book is your guide to doing just that.
Smooth Manifolds and Observables (Graduate Texts in Mathematics #220)
by Jet NestruevThis book gives an introduction to fiber spaces and differential operators on smooth manifolds. Over the last 20 years, the authors developed an algebraic approach to the subject and they explain in this book why differential calculus on manifolds can be considered as an aspect of commutative algebra. This new approach is based on the fundamental notion of observable which is used by physicists and will further the understanding of the mathematics underlying quantum field theory.
Smooth Manifolds and Observables (Graduate Texts in Mathematics #220)
by Jet NestruevThis book gives an introduction to fiber spaces and differential operators on smooth manifolds. Over the last 20 years, the authors developed an algebraic approach to the subject and they explain in this book why differential calculus on manifolds can be considered as an aspect of commutative algebra. This new approach is based on the fundamental notion of observable which is used by physicists and will further the understanding of the mathematics underlying quantum field theory.
Smooth Nonlinear Optimization in Rn (Nonconvex Optimization and Its Applications #19)
by Tamás RapcsákExperience gained during a ten-year long involvement in modelling, program ming and application in nonlinear optimization helped me to arrive at the conclusion that in the interest of having successful applications and efficient software production, knowing the structure of the problem to be solved is in dispensable. This is the reason why I have chosen the field in question as the sphere of my research. Since in applications, mainly from among the nonconvex optimization models, the differentiable ones proved to be the most efficient in modelling, especially in solving them with computers, I started to deal with the structure of smooth optimization problems. The book, which is a result of more than a decade of research, can be equally useful for researchers and stu dents showing interest in the domain, since the elementary notions necessary for understanding the book constitute a part of the university curriculum. I in tended dealing with the key questions of optimization theory, which endeavour, obviously, cannot bear all the marks of completeness. What I consider the most crucial point is the uniform, differential geometric treatment of various questions, which provides the reader with opportunities for learning the structure in the wide range, within optimization problems. I am grateful to my family for affording me tranquil, productive circumstances. I express my gratitude to F.