Auditory Interfaces
Auditory Interfaces explores how human-computer interactions can be significantly enhanced through the improved use of the audio channel. Providing historical, theoretical and practical perspectives, the book begins with an introductory overview, ...
Auditory Setting
Analyses the sonic environment mediated and crafted within the film and audiovisual media arts Defines the generally underexplored but well-used terms ambient sound" and "ambience" terms that denote an often unnoticed but significan...
Search User Interfaces
The truly world-wide reach of the Web has brought with it a new realisation of the enormous importance of usability and user interface design. In the last ten years, much has become understood about what works in search interfaces from a usability...
Handbook of Central Auditory Processing Disorder: Auditory Neuroscience and Diagnosis
Musiek and Chermak's two-volume, award-winning handbooks are back in newly revised editions. Extensively revised and expanded, Volume I provides comprehensive coverage of the auditory neuroscience and clinical science needed to accurately diagnose...
Computational Auditory Scene Analysis
How can we engineer systems capable of "cocktail party" listening? Human listeners are able to perceptually segregate one sound source from an acoustic mixture, such as a single voice from a mixture of other voices and music at a busy co...
Auditory Computation
The auditory system presents many features of a complex computational environment, as well as providing numerous opportunities for computational analysis. This volume represents an overview of computational approaches to understanding auditory sys...
Auditory Archaeology
Auditory archaeology considers the potential contribution of everyday, mundane and unintentional sounds in the past and how these may have been significant to people. Steve Mills explores ways of examining evidence to identify intentionality with ...
Landscape Interfaces
This book has been initiated by the workshop on Cultural heritage in changing landscapes, held during the IALE (International Association for Landscape Ecology) European Conference that started in Stockholm, Sweden, in June 200 1 and continued acr...
Brain-Computer Interfaces
For generations, humans have fantasized about the ability to create devices that can see into a person's mind and thoughts, or to communicate and interact with machines through thought alone. Such ideas have long captured the imagination of humank...
Cinematic Interfaces
In this book, Seung-hoon Jeong introduces the cinematic interface as a contact surface that mediates between image and subject, proposing that this mediation be understood not simply as transparent and efficient but rather as asymmetrical, ambival...
Auditory Perception
This revised and updated third edition describes the nature of sound, how sound is analyzed by the auditory system, and the rules and principles governing our interpretation of auditory input. It covers many topics including sound and the auditory...
Multimodal User Interfaces
tionship indicates how multimodal medical image processing can be unified to a large extent, e. g. multi-channel segmentation and image registration, and extend information theoretic registration to other features than image intensities. The frame...
User Interfaces in C#
This book represents the start of the second wave of .NET books: closely focused works that give you the insight of experienced developers about a single aspect of .NET programming. Here you'll take a close look at all the ingredients you can use ...
Mastering Voice Interfaces
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),¿natu...
Biopolymers at Interfaces
This new edition features research from nearly 60 of the profession's most distinguished international authorities. Recognizing emerging developments in biopolymer systems research with fully updated and expanded chapters, the second edition discu...
Auditory System
This updated, second edition of ''The Auditory System: Anatomy, Physiology, and Clinical Correlates'' remains an essential text for audiology students and clinicians. The text is designed to provide comprehensive coverage of the anatomy and physio...
Auditory Cognition and Human Performance
Hearing and understanding sound - auditory processing - greatly enriches everyday life and enhances our ability to perform many tasks essential to survival. The complex soundscape in which we live influences where we direct our attention, how we c...
Auditory Signal Processing
This book contains the papers that were presented at the XIIIth International Symposium on Hearing (ISH), which was held in Dourdan, France, between August 24 and 29, 2003. From its first edition in 1969, the Symposium has had a distinguished trad...
Interfaces in Crystalline Materials
The study of interfaces within and between materials is a central field which is relevant to almost all aspects of materials science. For example, interfaces play a role in many of the mechanical and electrical properties of materials, phase trans...
Polymers at Interfaces
This book is concerned with the configuration of polymers at the interfacial zone between two other phases or immiscible components. In recent years, developments in technology combined with increased attention from specialists in a wide range of ...
Display Interfaces
Display technology is evolving at an impressive rate with LCD and flat panel technologies gaining an increasing market share over traditional CRT display applications. Focusing on the development of new industry standards, this timely exposition o...
Coordinating User Interfaces for Consistency
In the years since Jakob Nielsen's classic collection on interface consistency first appeared, much has changed, and much has stayed the same. On the one hand, there's been exponential growth in the opportunities for following or disregardin...
Designing Gestural Interfaces
If you want to get started in new era of interaction design, this is the reference you need. Touch screens on mobile devices and ATMs let us manipulate things onscreen with our but there's been no central source of information about gestural inter...
Genetics and Auditory Disorders
Genetics is fundamental to hearing function, and an understanding of genetics enhances both auditory research and the clinical treatment of the hearing impaired. Approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of hearing impairment have developed from t...
Auditory Processing Disorders
''Auditory Processing Disorders: Assessment, Management, and Treatment, Third Edition'' details the history, definition, behaviors, and comorbidity of auditory processing disorders while educating the reader on the most current practices for audio...
Auditory Scene Analysis
Auditory Scene Analysis
Auditory Cortex
Understanding human hearing is not only a scientific challenge but also a problem of growing social and political importance, given the steadily increasing numbers of people with hearing deficits or even deafness. This book is about the highest le...
Auditory Processing Deficits
A core clinical guide to diagnoses and interventions for auditory processing deficits (APD)... Auditory Processing Deficits is designed to provide readers with key clinical information on APD, an important, growing area of interest in the field of...
The Human Auditory System
The Human Auditory System: Fundamental Organization and Clinical Disorders provides a comprehensive and focused reference on the neuroscience of hearing and the associated neurological diagnosis and treatment of auditory disorders. Th...
Surfaces, Interfaces, and Films for Microelectronics
The practical, accessible independent-study guide and text on surface science fundamentals and microelectronics processes, this reference explains key concepts and important analytical techniques. It discusses films and interfaces, electronic pass...
Brain-Computer Interfaces
The success of a BCI system depends as much on the system itself as on the user's ability to produce distinctive EEG activity. BCI systems can be divided into two groups according to the placement of the electrodes used to detect and measure neuro...
Programming Graphical User Interfaces in R
Programming Graphical User Interfaces with R introduces each of the major R packages for GUI programming: RGtk2, qtbase, Tcl/Tk, and gWidgets. With examples woven through the text as well as stand-alone demonstrations of simple yet reasonably comp...
The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Interfaces
This state-of-the-art guide to some of the most exciting work in current linguistics explores how the core components of the language faculty interact. It examines how these interactions are reflected in linguistic and cognitive theory, considers ...
Bubble and Drop Interfaces
The book aims at describing the most important experimental methods for characterizing liquid interfaces, such as drop profile analysis, bubble pressure and drop volume tensiometry, capillary pressure technique, and oscillating drops and bubbles.
Brain-Computer Interfaces
We have come to know that our ability to survive and grow as a nation to a very large degree depends upon our scientific progress. Moreover, it is not enough simply to keep 1 abreast of the rest of the world in scientific matters. We must maintain...
Handbook of Mouse Auditory Research
This unique compilation of chapters reviews a broad range of topics at the cutting edge of hearing research. The authors include many of the top auditory scientists in the world as well as some of the brightest rising stars. Although the book obvi...