
Wolfgang H? an architecture software specialist, shows you how to use freeware correctly for architecture visualizations in ?Interactive Ambient?. The book begins with an overview of real-time...
- Category: Design & Graphics
- Release Date: 2008-12-05 00:00:00
- Tags: Interactive, Environments, Open, Source, Software, Walkthroughs, Augmented, Reality, Architects, Blender, DART, ARToolKit,

Visual learners can get up and running quickly on ActionScript programming skills for Flash CS4 If you're a programmer who learns best when you see how something is done, this book will...
- Category: ActionScript
- Release Date: 2009-07-07 00:00:00
- Tags: ActionScript, Your, visual, blueprint, creating, interactive, projects, Flash, CS4, Professional,

Forms are everywhere on the web - for registration and communicating, for commerce and government. Good forms make for happier customers, better data, and reduced support costs. Bad forms fill...
- Category: Human Computer Interaction
- Release Date: 2008-11-17 00:00:00
- Tags: Forms, that, Work, Designing, Web, Forms, Usability, 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...
- Category: Design Patterns
- Release Date: 2009-03-13 00:00:00
- Tags: Web, Application, Design, Patterns, Interactive, Technologies,

Although recognized as a key to the design process, prototyping often falls victim to budget cuts, deadlines, or lack of access to sophisticated tools. This can lead to sloppy and ineffective...
- Category: Microsoft Excel
- Release Date: 2009-01-29 00:00:00
- Tags: Effective, Prototyping, Excel, practical, handbook, developers, designers, Interactive, Technologies,

The purpose of Interactive Visualization is to develop new scientific methods to increase scientists? abilities to explore data and to understand better the results of experiments based on...
- Category: Miscellaneous
- Release Date: 2008-11-21 00:00:00
- Tags: Trends, Interactive, Visualization, State, Art, Survey, Advanced, Information, Knowledge, Processing,

PIC Microcontrollers are present in almost every new electronic application that is released from garage door openers to the iPhone. With the proliferation of this product more and more engineers...
- Category: Computer Engineering
- Release Date: 2008-07-18 00:00:00
- Tags: Programming, bit, PIC, Microcontrollers, Interactive, Hardware, Simulation,

Multiobjective optimization deals with solving problems having not only one, but multiple, often conflicting, criteria. Such problems can arise in practically every field of science, engineering...
- Category: Computer Science
- Release Date: 2008-11-01 00:00:00
- Tags: Multiobjective, Optimization, Interactive, Evolutionary, Approaches, Lecture, Notes, Computer, Science,

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...
- Category: E-Learning
- Release Date: 2008-09-05 00:00:00
- Tags: Building, Intelligent, Interactive, Tutors, Student, centered, strategies, revolutionizing, learning,

Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design (Interactive Technologies)
Bill Buxton and I share a common belief that design leadership together with technical leadership drives innovation. Sketching, prototyping, and design are essential parts of the process we use...
- Category: Human Computer Interaction
- Release Date: 2007-04-11 00:00:00
- Tags: Sketching, User, Experiences, Getting, Design, Right, Right, Design, Interactive, Technologies,

PHP is a popular open-source web scripting language used on more than 70% of web servers. This project-based book walks you through each step of building a complete interactive web site using PHP...

Increasingly, designers need to present information in ways that aid their audience's thinking process. Fortunately, results from the relatively new science of human visual perception provide...
- Category: Design & Graphics
- Release Date: 2008-04-15 00:00:00
- Tags: Visual, Thinking, Design, Morgan, Kaufmann, Series, Interactive, Technologies,

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Design, Specification, and Verification of Interactive Systems, DSVIS 2006, held in Dublin,...
- Category: Computer Science
- Release Date: 2007-03-05 00:00:00
- Tags: Interactive, Systems, Design, Specification, Verification, 13th, International, Workshop, DSVIS, 2006, Dublin, Ireland, July, 2006, Revised, Papers, Lecture, Notes, Computer, Science,

In Building Interactive Worlds in 3D readers will find turnkey tutorials that detail all the steps required to build simulations and interactions, utilize virtual cameras, virtual actors (with...
- Category: Game Programming
- Release Date: 2005-04-20 00:00:00
- Tags: Building, Interactive, Worlds, Virtual, Sets, Pre, visualization, Games, Film, amp;, Web,

Interactivity is one of the most captivating topics for today's online community. It is a fast-growing field pushed by the rapid development and dispersion of Java, Shockwave, Flash, and...

Essential Mathematics for Games and Interactive Applications, 2nd edition presents the core mathematics necessary for sophisticated 3D graphics and interactive physical simulations. The book...
- Category: Game Programming
- Release Date: 2008-05-16 00:00:00
- Tags: Essential, Mathematics, Games, Interactive, Applications, Second, Edition, Programmer's, Guide,

With the emergence of the Java 3D API, the creation of high quality 3D animated graphics for Java applications and applets becomes a possibility. With numerous aspects of the business, science,...

Martin Wilde's cutting-edge exploration of the creative potential of game audio systems addresses the latest working methods of those involved in creating and programming immersive, interactive...
- Category: Game Programming
- Release Date: 2004-04-28 00:00:00
- Tags: Audio, Programming, Interactive, Games,

Many aspects of usability testing have been thoroughly studied and documented. This isn't true, however, of the details of interacting with the test participants who provide the critical...
- Category: Human Computer Interaction
- Release Date: 2008-03-14 00:00:00
- Tags: Moderating, Usability, Tests, Principles, Practices, Interacting, Interactive, Technologies, Interactive, Technologies,

You just know that an improvement of the user interface will reap rewards, but how do you justify the expense and the labor and the time-guarantee a robust ROI!-ahead of time? How do you decide...
- Category: Human Computer Interaction
- Release Date: 2005-04-04 00:00:00
- Tags: Cost, Justifying, Usability, Second, Edition, Update, Internet, Age, Second, Edition, Interactive, Technologies,

Finally-a thorough pedagogical survey of the multidisciplinary science of HCI. Human-Computer Interaction spans many disciplines, from the social and behavioral sciences to information and...
- Category: Human Computer Interaction
- Release Date: 2003-04-10 00:00:00
- Tags: HCI, Models, Theories, Frameworks, Toward, Multidisciplinary, Science, Interactive, Technologies,

In today's information age, scientists and engineers must quickly and efficiently analyze extremely large sets of data. One of the best tools to accomplish this is Interactive Data Language...
- Category: Programming
- Release Date: 2005-10-01 00:00:00
- Tags: Introduction, Programming, IDL, Interactive, Data, Language,

The main aim of this research book is to report a sample of the most recent advances in the field of intelligent interactive systems in knowledge-based environment. The contents of this book...
- Category: Computational Intelligence
- Release Date: 2008-06-02 00:00:00
- Tags: Intelligent, Interactive, Systems, Knowledge, Based, Environments, Studies, Computational, Intelligence, Studies, Computational, Intelligence,

An authoritative text by one of the premier researchers in usability engineering in the 1990s, Jakob Nielsen's Usability Engineering provides a landmark guide to software design that has helped...
- Category: Human Computer Interaction
- Release Date: 1993-09-23 00:00:00
- Tags: Usability, Engineering, Interactive, Technologies,

Microsoft Office Excel 2007 Programming Welcome to the only guidebook series that takes a visual approach to professional-level computer topics. Open the book and you'll discover...
- Category: Microsoft Excel
- Release Date: 2007-09-11 00:00:00
- Tags: Microsoft, Office, Excel, 2007, Programming, Your, visual, blueprint, creating, interactive, spreadsheets, Visual, Blueprint,

Written by an expert in the game industry, Christer Ericson's new book is a comprehensive guide to the components of efficient real-time collision detection systems. The book provides the tools...
- Category: Game Programming
- Release Date: 2004-12-22 00:00:00
- Tags: Real, Time, Collision, Detection, Morgan, Kaufmann, Series, Interactive, Technology,

Each step in this visual reference is displayed with callouts so you can see exactly where the action takes place on the screen. It covers over 100 tasks, including complete coverage of macros --...
- Category: Microsoft Excel
- Release Date: 2001-11-15 00:00:00
- Tags: Excel, Programming, Your, Visual, Blueprint, Creating, Interactive, Spreadsheets, ROM,

Human Factors and Voice Interactive Systems, Second Edition provides in-depth information on current topics of major interest to speech application developers, and updates material from...
- Category: Human Computer Interaction
- Release Date: 2007-12-10 00:00:00
- Tags: Human, Factors, Voice, Interactive, Systems, Signals, Communication, Technology,

Interactive curve modeling techniques and their applications are extremely useful in a number of academic and industrial settings, and specifically play a significant role in multidisciplinary...
- Category: Computer Graphics
- Release Date: 2007-10-17 00:00:00
- Tags: Interactive, Curve, Modeling, Applications, Computer, Graphics, Vision, Image, Processing,

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling and Entertainment, TIDSE 2004, held in Darmstadt,...
- Category: Computer Science
- Release Date: 2004-08-05 00:00:00
- Tags: Technologies, Interactive, Digital, Storytelling, Entertainment, Second, International, Conference, TIDSE, 2004, Darmstadt, Germany, June, 2004, Proceedings, Lecture, Notes, Computer, Science,

