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Acting with Technology eBook Series

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  • Acting with Technology

    Activity Theory and Interaction Design

    by Victor Kaptelinin, Bonnie A. Nardi ...
    Series series Acting with Technology
    A systematic presentation of activity theory, its application to interaction design, and an argument for the development of activity theory as a basis for understanding how people interact with technology.Activity theory holds that the human mind is the product of our interaction with people and artifacts in the context of everyday activity. Acting with Technology makes the case for activity ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

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  • The Internet Police: How Crime Went Online, and the Cops Followed

    How Crime Went Online, and the Cops Followed

    by Nate Anderson ...
    Chaos and order clash in this riveting exploration of crime and punishment on the Internet.Once considered a borderless and chaotic virtual landscape, the Internet is now home to the forces of international law and order. It’s not just computer hackers and cyber crooks who lurk in the dark corners of the Web—the cops are there, too.In The Internet Police, Ars Technica editor Nate Anderson takes ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The VR Book

    Human-Centered Design for Virtual Reality

    by Jason Jerald ...
    Series series ACM Books
    This is a strong foundation of human-centric virtual reality design for anyone and everyone involved in creating VR experiences. Without a clear understanding of the human side of virtual reality (VR), the experience will always fail.The VR Book bridges this gap by focusing on human-centered design. Creating compelling VR applications is an incredibly complex challenge. When done well, these ... Read more

    $72.99 CAD

  • Content Strategy at Work

    Real-world Stories to Strengthen Every Interactive Project

    by Margot Bloomstein ...
    Content is king… and the new kingmaker… and your message needs to align with your model and metrics and other mumbo jumbo, right? Whether you're slogging through theory or buzzwords, there's no denying content strategy is coming of age. But what's in it for you? And if you're not a content strategist, why should you care? Because even if content strategy isn't your job, content's probably your ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • Cybercrime and the Darknet

    Revealing the hidden underworld of the internet

    by Cath Senker ...
    With the emergence of the internet new forms of crime became possible. From harassment and grooming to fraud and identity theft the anonymity provided by the internet has created a new world of crime of which we all must be aware. The threat of hackers reaches beyond the individual, threatening businesses and even states, and holds worrying implications for the world we live in.In this ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Practical Web Analytics for User Experience

    How Analytics Can Help You Understand Your Users

    by Michael Beasley ...
    Practical Web Analytics for User Experience teaches you how to use web analytics to help answer the complicated questions facing UX professionals. Within this book, you'll find a quantitative approach for measuring a website's effectiveness and the methods for posing and answering specific questions about how users navigate a website. The book is organized according to the concerns UX ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Human-Computer Interaction

    An Empirical Research Perspective

    by I. Scott MacKenzie ...
    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. From there, you'll progress to learning about the methods for conducting an experiment to evaluate a new computer interface or ... Read more

    $55.19 CAD

  • General Will 2.0

    Rousseau, Freud, Google

    by Hiroki Azuma ...
    Translated by John Person ...
    Stay informed. Talk about the issues. Always be engaged. Liberal societies have encouraged their members to take part—or at least interest—in politics. Yet, even in developed nations where it is said to work, the democratic process as we know it routinely fails to give voice, on the one hand, and to appeal at all, on the other hand, to a good number of citizens.Whatever countervailing hopes the ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD

  • Smart Things

    Ubiquitous Computing User Experience Design

    by Mike Kuniavsky ...
    The world of smart shoes, appliances, and phones is already here, but the practice of user experience (UX) design for ubiquitous computing is still relatively new. Design companies like IDEO and frogdesign are regularly asked to design products that unify software interaction, device design and service design -- which are all the key components of ubiquitous computing UX -- and practicing ... Read more

    $37.59 CAD

  • Quantifying the User Experience

    Practical Statistics for User Research

    by Jeff Sauro, James R Lewis ...
    Quantifying the User Experience: Practical Statistics for User Research, Second Edition, provides practitioners and researchers with the information they need to confidently quantify, qualify, and justify their data. The book presents a practical guide on how to use statistics to solve common quantitative problems that arise in user research. It addresses questions users face every day, including, ... Read more

    $48.79 CAD

  • Web Application Design Patterns

    by Pawan Vora ...
    Series series Interactive Technologies
    Ever notice that—in spite of their pervasiveness—designing web applications is still challenging? While their benefits motivate their creation, there are no well-established guidelines for design. This often results in inconsistent behaviors and appearances, even among web applications created by the same company. Design patterns for web applications, similar in concept to those for web sites and ... Read more

    $55.19 CAD

  • Credible Checklists and Quality Questionnaires

    A User-Centered Design Method

    by Chauncey Wilson ...
    Credible Checklists and Quality Questionnaires starts off with an examination of the critical but commonly overlooked checklist method. In the second chapter, questionnaires and surveys are discussed. Asking questions sounds simple, but the hard truth is that asking questions (and designing questionnaires) is a difficult task. This chapter discusses being mindful of the choice of words, order of ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD