Learn IT - Books tags psychology

Beginning Web Programming with HTML, XHTML, and CSS

Wrox Press, 2008

This beginning guide reviews HTML and also introduces you to using XHTML for the structure of a web page and cascading style sheets (CSS) for controlling how a document should appear on a web page. Youll learn how to take advantage of the latest features of browsers while making sure that your pages still work in older, but popular, browsers. By...

An Introduction to Neural Networks

CRC Press, 1997

Covers: artificial neurons as models of their real counterparts; the geometry of network action in pattern space; gradient descent methods, including back-propagation; associative memory and Hopfield nets; and self-organization and feature maps.

This book grew out of a set of course notes for a neural networks module given as part of a...

Designing from Both Sides of the Screen: How Designers and Engineers Can Collaborate to Build Cooperative Technology

Sams Publishing, 2001

Designing from Both Sides of the Screen: How Designers and Engineers Can Collaborate to Build Cooperative Technology is a must-have book for anyone developing user interfaces (UI). The authors define a seemingly simple goal, the Cooperative Principle for Technology: "[T]hose who are designing, building, or managing the development of...

Designing Successful e-Learning, Michael Allen's Online Learning Library

Pfeiffer, 2007

“The theoretical literature on learning and growth can be difficult to master and even more challenging to integrate into e-learning, but Michael has made this easy for all of us. He explains this thinking in clear and accessible language, amplifies the theories with research results, and describes popular approaches by applying these...

The Essence of Multivariate Thinking: Basic Themes and Methods (Multivariate Applications)

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005

The Essence of Multivariate Thinking is intended to make multivariate statistics more accessible to a wide audience. To encourage a more thorough understanding of multivariate methods, author Lisa Harlow suggests basic themes that run through most statistical methodology. The most pervasive theme is multiplicity. The author argues that the...

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.
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The Handbook of High Performance Virtual Teams: A Toolkit for Collaborating Across Boundaries

Jossey-Bass, 2008

The Handbook of High-Performance Virtual Teams

The Handbook of High-Performance Virtual Teams is an essential resource for leaders, virtual team members, and work group leaders. The editors provide a proven framework based on five principles for working collaboratively across boundaries of time, space, and culture. Written by experts in the...

Human Factors and Web Development, Second Edition

CRC Press, 2002

When Chris Forsythe, Eric Grose and I co-edited the first edition of Human Factors and Web Development, our intent was to compile the definitive "seminal" research on the impact of the World Wide Web (WWW) development in the fields of cognitive psychology, engineering, user interface design, and educational technology.

In 1996,...

Designing a Not-for-Profit Compensation System

John Wiley & Sons, 2005

Designing A Not-For-profit Compensation System

Until now, human resource and compensation professionals in the public/not-for-profit sector didn't have a compensation guidebook specifically for them. Unlike their for-profit counterparts, specialists in the not-for-profit sector wrestle with such questions as:

How is...

The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook: Fundamentals, Evolving Technologies and Emerging Applications, Second Edition

CRC Press, 2007

This second edition of the HCI Handbook provides a fresh perspective on the field of human-computer interaction (HCI). Numerous chapters deal with topics that were not addressed in the first edition. Different authors were recruited to address some topics from the first edition, ensuring that this revision provides new perspectives and insights....

Making Creativity Practical: Innovation That Gets Results (Center for Creative Leadership)

Pfeiffer, 2007

Creative solutions can be challenged and defended in the pursuit of profitability. But first, creativity must be demystified. A process that targets innovation provides leaders with just such a problem-solving approach. The goal is to produce high-quality ideas that are appropriate to the task—which means groups and organizations can...

HCI Models, Theories, and Frameworks: Toward a Multidisciplinary Science (Interactive Technologies)

Morgan Kaufmann, 2003

In the field of human-computer interaction (HCI), researchers and practitioners from diverse disciplines in the social sciences, information technology, engineering, and computer science all strive to improve the relationship, or interface, between person and machine. The multidisciplinary tradition of HCI certainly has enriched its development....

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