IEEE P835a/D2, October 2012
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File Size : 33,56 MB
Release : 2012
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ISBN : 9780738175737
Designing for People
Author : John D. Lee
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,26 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781539808008
Book Description
Whether it is the car you drive or the app on your smartphone, technology has an increasingly powerful influence on you. When designed with people in mind, this influence can improve lives and productivity. This book provides a broad introduction on how to attend to the needs, capabilities, and preferences of people in the design process. We combine methods of design thinking and systems thinking to understand people's needs and evaluate whether those needs are met. This book also provides a detailed description of the capabilities and limits of people-both mental and physical-and how these can guide the design of everything from typography to teams and from data visualization to habits. The book includes: * Over 70 design principles for displays, controls, human-computer interaction, automation, and workspace layout * Integrative discussion of the research and theory underlying these guidelines, supported by over 1,000 references * Examples of successful and unsuccessful designs and exercises that link principles and theory to applications in consumer products, the workplace, and high risk-systems We hope this book will give a useful introduction to students entering the field and will also serve as a reference for researchers, engineers, and designers.
Time: From Earth Rotation to Atomic Physics
Author : Dennis D. McCarthy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 10,93 MB
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 1107197287
Book Description
This accessible reference presents the evolution of concepts of time and methods of time keeping, for historians, scientists, engineers, and educators. The second edition has been updated throughout to describe twentieth- and twenty-first-century advances, progress in devices, time and cosmology, the redefinition of SI units, and the future of UTC.
History of Clocks and Watches
Author : Eric Bruton
Publisher : Chartwell Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,59 MB
Release : 2004-05
Category : Clocks and watches
ISBN : 9780785818557
Book Description
This book is a lucid and authoritative catalog of man's obsession with time and timepieces. Hundreds of full-color and black-and-white illustrations compliment intricate line drawings that illuminate the inner workings of these devices.
Religion and Time
Author : Anindita Niyogi Balslev
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 13,35 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004095830
Book Description
These essays focus on the concept of time in the major religious traditions. The theme of time so central to the religious point of view offers a focal point for fruitful interreligious dialogue.
Studies on the structure of time
Author : R. Buccheri
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 13,36 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1461542855
Book Description
Every human being is aware of the flow of time. This fact is embodied in the existence of such notions as the past and the future, the two domains being separated from each other by the single moment of the present. While the past is regarded as fixed and definite, the future is viewed as unknown, uncertain, and undetermined. The only perceivable moment is the present, the `now' - the ever-changing point moving from the past into the future. Physics tells us a different story: not only are the vast majority of physical laws time-reversible, but the concept of the `now' itself has no place at all in physics. In other words, the equations of physics do not distinguish between the past and the future and seem to be completely oblivious to the very idea of the present. This book discusses the biological and psychological aspects of perception of time, and the problems related to the determination of location arising from quantum physics, together with comments and opinions from philosophers and physicists.
Time's Pendulum
Author : Jo Ellen Barnett
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 19,47 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780156006491
Book Description
A look at man's attempts to accurately measure time shows how the concept of time has steadily evolved and broadened our perception of the world.
Kabbalah and Modernity
Author : Boʿaz Hus
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 30,85 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004182845
Book Description
This volume brings together leading representatives of the recent debate about the persistence of kabbalah in the modern world. It breaks new ground for a better understanding of the role of kabbalah in modern religious, intellectual, and political discourse.
Cosmology, Physics and Philosophy
Author : Benjamin Gal-Or
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 28,54 MB
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 1475711492
Book Description
by Sir Karl Popper This is a great book, and an exciting book. I say so even though I happen to dis agree with the author in many minor points and one or two major points. Some of the minor points are merely terminological, and therefore very minor. I dislike the term 'dialectic', because of its use since Hegel and Marx; and I dislike the term 'gravitism', perhaps without a good reason. Thus I dislike the name which Professor Gal-Or has given to his theory. But the theory seems to me a great and a very beauti ful theory, so far as I can judge. Other minor points of disagreement are connected with Gal-Or's original and remarkable views of the great philosophers, including Spinoza and Kant. A major point of disagreement is that Gal-Or, following Einstein, is a scientific determinist, while I cannot but regard determinism as a modem super stition. Of course, he may be right and I may be completely mistaken. I mention these critical points rather in order to emphasize how strongly I am impressed by Professor Gal-Or's great book. Even in the very unlikely case that, wherever we disagree, he should be in the wrong and I right, even if that should be the case (which is improbable in the extreme), it would remain a great book: readable, worth reading and enlightening; with a most fascinating cosmological story of time, expansion, and gravitation.
Encyclopedia of Time
Author : H. James Birx
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 1632 pages
File Size : 41,29 MB
Release : 2009-01-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781412941648
Book Description
"With a strong interdisciplinary approach to a subject that does not lend itself easily to the reference format, this work may not seem to support directly academic programs beyond general research, but it is a more thorough and up-to-date treatment than Taylor and Francis's 1994 Encyclopedia of Time. Highly recommended." —Library Journal STARRED Review Surveying the major facts, concepts, theories, and speculations that infuse our present comprehension of time, the Encyclopedia of Time: Science, Philosophy, Theology, & Culture explores the contributions of scientists, philosophers, theologians, and creative artists from ancient times to the present. By drawing together into one collection ideas from scholars around the globe and in a wide range of disciplines, this Encyclopedia will provide readers with a greater understanding of and appreciation for the elusive phenomenon experienced as time. Features Surveys historical thought about time, including those ideas that emerged in ancient Greece, early Christianity, the Italian Renaissance, the Age of Enlightenment, and other periods Covers the original and lasting insights of evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin, physicist Albert Einstein, philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, and theologian Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Discusses the significance of time in the writings of Isaac Asimov, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Fyodor M. Dostoevsky, Francesco Petrarch, H. G. Wells, and numerous other authors Contains the contributions of naturalists and religionists, including astronomers, cosmologists, physicists, chemists, geologists, paleontologists, anthropologists, psychologists, philosophers, and theologians Includes artists' portrayals of the fluidity of time, including painter Salvador Dali's The Persistence of Memory and The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, and writers Gustave Flaubert's The Temptation of Saint Anthony and Henryk Sienkiewicz's Quo Vadis Provides a truly interdisciplinary approach, with discussions of Aztec, Buddhist, Christian, Egyptian, Ethiopian, Hindu, Islamic, Navajo, and many other cultures' conceptions of time Key Themes Biography Biology/Evolution Culture/History Geology/Paleontology Philosophy Physics/Chemistry Psychology/Literature Religion/Theology Theories/Concepts
