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Mastering Voice Interfaces: Creating Great Voice Apps for Real Users
Build great voice apps of any complexity for any domain by learning both the how's and why's of voice development. In this book you’ll see how we live in a golden age of voice technology and how advances in automatic speech recognition (ASR), natural language processing (NLP), and related tec.... -
Designing Interfaces, 3rd Edition
Author Aynne Valencia , Charles Brewer , Jenifer Tidwell
Designing good application interfaces isn’t easy now that companies need to create compelling, seamless user experiences across an exploding number of channels, screens, and contexts. In this updated third edition, you’ll learn how to navigate through the maze of d....
Release Date 2020/01 -
On the Study of Human Cooperation via Computer Simulation
Author Garrison W. Greenwood , Daniel Ashlock
Cooperation is pervasive throughout nature, but its origin remains an open question.For decades, social scientists, business leaders, and economists have struggled with an important question: why is cooperation so ubiquitous among unrelated humans? The answers would have ....
Release Date 2019/09 -
Author Diana MacDonald
Understanding UI patterns is invaluable to anyone creating websites for the first time. It helps you make connections between which tools are right for which jobs, understand the processes, and think deeply about the context of a problem. This is your concise guid....
Release Date 2019/06 -
Creating Interfaces with Bulma
Author Dave Berning , Aslam Shah , Mikko Lauhakari , Oleksii Potiekhin , creator of Bulma J
This book, written by Jeremy Thomas (Bulma creator) and a team of Bulma experts, is a step-by-step guide that will teach you how to build a web interface from scratch using Bulma. The example website that you will build is an administration interface for an online....
Release Date 2018/02 -
Author Bob Lautenbach , Walter Quesada
Get a step-by-step guide for developing voice interfaces for applications and devices connected to the Internet of Things. By allowing consumers to use natural human interactions, you can avoid awkward methods of input and interactivity to provide them with elevate....
Release Date 2017/10 -
Antenna Design for Mobile Devices, 2nd Edition
Author Zhijun Zhang
Expanded and updated, this practical guide is a one-stop design reference containing all an engineer needs when designing antennas• Integrates state-of-the-art technologies with a special section for step-by-step antenna design• Features up-to-date bio-safety and e....
Release Date 2017/05 -
Designing User Interfaces for an Aging Population
Author Kate Finn , Jeff Johnson
Designing User Interfaces for an Aging Population: Towards Universal Design presents age-friendly design guidelines that are well-established, agreed-upon, research-based, actionable, and applicable across a variety of modern technology platforms. The book offers g....
Release Date 2017/02 -
Designing Voice User Interfaces
Author Cathy Pearl
Voice user interfaces (VUIs) are becoming all the rage today. But how do you build one that people can actually converse with? Whether you’re designing a mobile app, a toy, or a device such as a home assistant, this practical book guides you through basic VUI desig....
Release Date 2016/12 -
Designing effective interfaces
Author Joel Marsh
Beauty is only one factor when it comes to designing “good” interfaces. More importantly, a good UI has to achieve the user’s goals and the goals of the business. These short lessons tell you how to help and persuade the user to do the most effective thing.What you....
Release Date 2016/10 -
Design of Multimodal Mobile Interfaces
Author Yael Shmueli-Friedland , Michael Lawo , Brion van Over , Alexander Rudnicky , Asaf D
The “smart mobile” has become an essential and inseparable part of our lives. This powerful tool enables us to perform multi-tasks in different modalities of voice, text, gesture, etc. The user plays an important role in the mode of operation, so multimodal interac....
Release Date 2016/04 -
Author Laura Klein
Keyboards and input screens still work for mobile devices, but they just might disappear for some wearables and IoT devices. How viable is voice interface as an alternative? This O’Reilly report looks into recent advances in computing power and natural language pro....
Release Date 2015/10 -
Handbook of Serial Communications Interfaces
Author Louis E. Frenzel
This book catalogs the most popular and commonly used serial-port interfaces and provides details on the specifications and the latest standards, enabling you to select an interface for a new design or verify that an interface is working correctly. Each chapter is b....
Release Date 2015/08 -
Digital Interface Design and Application
Author Jonathan A. Dell
Many computer applications require microprocessors to reliably interconnect and communicate with other peripherals in order to perform their intended functions. Interface design, which includes the development of the methods and processes by which two or more compo....
Release Date 2015/08 -
Designing Social Interfaces, 2nd Edition
Author Christian Crumlish , Erin Malone
Designers, developers, and entrepreneurs today must grapple with creating social interfaces to foster user interaction and community, but grasping the nuances and the building blocks of the digital social experience is much harder than it appears. Now you have help.....
Release Date 2015/08 -
The Best Interface Is No Interface: The Simple Path to Brilliant Technology
Author Golden Krishna
Our love for the digital interface is out of control.Expanded from one of the most shared design essays ever written, and one of the most popular talks at innovation conferences around the world, this entertaining and visionary book offers a compelling new way to se....
Release Date 2015/02 -
Author Tali Mendelberg , Christopher F. Karpowitz
Do women participate in and influence meetings equally with men? Does gender shape how a meeting is run and whose voices are heard? The Silent Sex shows how the gender composition and rules of a deliberative body dramatically affect who speaks, how the group intera....
Release Date 2014/08 -
Author Michel Dupeux , Muriel Braccini
The growing occurrence of heterogeneous materials such as composites or coated substrates in structural parts makes it necessary for designers and scientists to deal with the specific features of the mechanical behavior of solid interfaces.This book introduces basic....
Release Date 2012/08 -
Sleeping with Your Smartphone: How to Break the 24/7 Habit and Change the Way You Work
Author Leslie Perlow
Does it have to be this way?Can’t resist checking your smartphone or mobile device? Sure, all this connectivity keeps you in touch with your team and the office—but at what cost?In Sleeping with Your Smartphone, Harvard Business School professor Leslie Perlow reveal....
Release Date 2012/05 -
NOOK Tablet: The Missing Manual
Author Preston Gralla
Combine a world-class e-reader with a top-notch tablet—then add know-how from technology guru Preston Gralla—and you have the perfect recipe for portable entertainment. Packed with clear instructions and helpful illustrations, this book gets you up to speed on the N....
Release Date 2012/03 -
Author Brian Sawyer , Preston Gralla
When you open the box for your brand-new NOOK Tablet, you'll find Barnes & Noble's latest 7-inch media device to hit the market, a USB cable, power adapter, and a "Quick Start Guide" that tells you how to turn it on. But to really take advantage of all the con....
Release Date 2011/12 -
Author Eric Berkman , Steven Hoober
With hundreds of thousands of mobile applications available today, your app has to capture users immediately. This book provides practical techniques to help you catch—and keep—their attention. You’ll learn core principles for designing effective user interfaces, al....
Release Date 2011/11 -
The Intuitive Compass: Why the Best Decisions Balance Reason and Instinct
Author Francis P. Cholle
A dynamic new way to understand intuition, already implemented around the world at top companies and business schoolsNeuroscience shows that instinct has a leading role in complex decision-making, yet imaginative play is the most direct means of activating our creat....
Release Date 2011/10 -
Antenna Design For Mobile Devices
Author Zhijun Zhang
Written by an antenna engineer turned professor who has worked at Apple, Nokia and Amphenol, Antenna Design for Mobile Devicesis a comprehensive guide for fresh and intermediate engineers involved in antenna design. The book instructs readers through all aspects of ....
Release Date 2011/05 -
Designing Interfaces, 2nd Edition
Author Jenifer Tidwell
Despite all of the UI toolkits available today, it's still not easy to design good application interfaces. This bestselling book is one of the few reliable sources to help you navigate through the maze of design options. By capturing UI best practices and reusable ....
Release Date 2010/12 -
Author Sajal K. Das
The evolution of mobile communication standards presents numerous challenges in mobile handset design. Designers must continue to turn out handsets that maintain high device performance and air interface compatibility, while at the same time shrink power consumption....
Release Date 2010/04 -
Hardware/Firmware Interface Design
Author Gary Stringham
Why care about hardware/firmware interaction? These interfaces are critical, a solid hardware design married with adaptive firmware can access all the capabilities of an application and overcome limitations caused by poor communication. For the first time, a b....
Release Date 2009/10 -
Author Christian Crumlish , Erin Malone
From the creators of Yahoo!'s Design Pattern Library, Designing Social Interfaces provides you with more than 100 patterns, principles, and best practices, along with salient advice for many of the common challenges you'll face when starting a social website. Desi....
Release Date 2009/09 -
Author Brian Fling
Mobile devices outnumber desktop and laptop computers three to one worldwide, yet little information is available for designing and developing mobile applications. Mobile Design and Development fills that void with practical guidelines, standards, techniques, and be....
Release Date 2009/08 -
Author Theresa Neil , Bill Scott
Want to learn how to create great user experiences on today's Web? In this book, UI experts Bill Scott and Theresa Neil present more than 75 design patterns for building web interfaces that provide rich interaction. Distilled from the authors' years of experience ....
Release Date 2009/01