Learn IT - Books tags cognitive

Adaptive Signal Processing in Wireless Communications (Adaptation in Wireless Communications)

CRC Press, 2008

Adaptive techniques play a key role in modern wireless communication systems. The concept of adaptation is emphasized in the Adaptation in Wireless Communications Series through a unified framework across all layers of the wireless protocol stack ranging from the physical layer to the application layer, and from cellular systems to...

Using Wikis for Online Collaboration: The Power of the Read-Write Web (Online Teaching and Learning Series)

Jossey-Bass, 2008

How can online instructors and course designers' instruction harness the popular Web 2.0 tool, the wiki, for successful collaboration and learning outcomes? This book focuses on using wikis in the active learning processes that are the hallmark of collaborative learning and constructivism. It provides both the pedagogical background and practical...

Handbook of Multisensor Data Fusion: Theory and Practice, Second Edition (Electrical Engineering and Applied Signal Processing)

CRC Press, 2008

In the years since the bestselling first edition, fusion research and applications have adapted to service-oriented architectures and pushed the boundaries of situational modeling in human behavior, expanding into fields such as chemical and biological sensing, crisis management, and intelligent buildings.

Handbook of Multisensor Data...

Artificial Vision: Image Description, Recognition, and Communication (Signal Processing and its Applications)

Academic Press, 1996

Artificial vision is a rapidly growing discipline, aiming to build computational models of the visual capabilites in humans, as well as the machines that emulate them. Recent research work suggests that vision is a complex functionality, involving active sensing and attentional mechanisms, and is strictly related to cognitive processes like...

Building Intelligent Interactive Tutors: Student-centered strategies for revolutionizing e-learning

Morgan Kaufmann, 2008

Computers have transformed every facet of our culture, most dramatically communication, transportation, finance, science, and the economy. Yet their impact has not been generally felt in education due to lack of hardware, teacher training, and sophisticated software. Another reason is that current instructional software is neither truly responsive...

Humane Interfaces (Human Factors in Information Technology)

North Holland, 1999

Ever since the first successful International Cognitive Technology (CT) Conference in Hong Kong in August 1995, a growing concern about the dehumanising potential of machines, and the machining potential of the human mind, has pervaded the organisers' thinking. When setting up the agenda for the Second International CT Conference in Aizu, Japan, in...

From Writing to Computers

Routledge, 1994

... the broad and clear analysis of writing and language, and of automata theory, formal logic, and computability theory he uses to reach [his conclusion] is well worth reading.
–H. D. Warner, Western New England College

From Writing to Computers takes as its central theme the issue of a...

Usability: Turning Technologies into Tools

Oxford University Press, 1992

"The book contains much insight." --B. Hazeltine, Computing Reviews

"Unusual in that the research it brings together spans the perspectives of cognitive psychology, the sociology of work and technology, work-oriented systems design, computer-supported cooperative work, and human-computer interaction. Although most of...

The Origins of Language: Unraveling Evolutionary Forces

Springer, 2008

Developments in cognitive science indicate that human and nonhuman primates share a range of behavioral and physiological characteristics that speak to the issue of language origins. This volume has three major themes, woven throughout the chapters. First, it is argued that scientists in animal behavior and anthropology need to move beyond...

Ergonomics for Beginners: A Quick Reference Guide, Third Edition

CRC Press, 2008

Revised Contents Addresses Rapid Developments

Loaded with information on the design of work systems, workplaces, and workstations as well as human anthropometics, Ergonomics for Beginners: A Quick Reference Guide, Third Edition provides a useful quick reference and valuable tool for novices and experienced...

Moderating Usability Tests: Principles and Practices for Interacting (Interactive Technologies)

Morgan Kaufmann, 2008

Many aspects of usability testing have been thoroughly studied and documented. This isnt true, however, of the details of interacting with the test participants who provide the critical usability data. This omission has meant that there have been no training materials and no principles from which new moderators can learn how to interact.
...

Ultra-Wideband Communications Systems: Multiband OFDM Approach (Wiley Series in Telecommunications & Signal Processing)

John Wiley & Sons, 2007

The only book that provides full coverage of UWB multiband OFDM technology

Ultra-wideband (UWB) has emerged as a technology that offers great promise to satisfy the growing demand for low-cost, high-speed digital networks. The enormous bandwidth available, the potential for high data rates, and the promise for small size and low processing...

Result Page: 43 42 41 40 39 38 37 36 35 34 33 32 31 30 29 28