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The concept of usability has become an increasingly important consideration in the design of all kinds of technology. As more products are aimed at global markets and developed through internationally distributed teams, usability design needs to be addressed in global terms. Interest in usability as a design issue and specialist area of research and education has developed steadily in North America and Europe since the 1980’s. However, it is only over the last ten years that it has emerged as a global concern. Global Usability provides an introduction to the important issues in globalizing design and an insight into the development of usability expertise around the world. The book is divided into two sections. The first section deals with the general issues in cross-cultural design and the methods for conducting usability design and evaluation across geographical boundaries. The second section describes the state of usability development in fifteen countries. The descriptions include a history and review of activities and include some unique perspectives that have developed in relation to usability work. Researchers and practitioners from a variety of design-related disciplines will find the book a useful guide for understanding the issues and an excellent reference source for working in any of the countries covered.

Human engineering. --- Human-computer interaction. --- User-centered system design. --- User interfaces (Computer systems) --- Human-computer interaction --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Computer Science --- Testing --- Testing. --- Computer-human interaction --- Human factors in computing systems --- Interaction, Human-computer --- Interfaces, User (Computer systems) --- Computer science. --- User interfaces (Computer systems). --- Computer industry. --- Computer Science. --- User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction. --- The Computer Industry. --- Human engineering --- User-centered system design --- Human-machine systems --- Electronic industries --- Informatics --- Science

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This book is about the philosophy of de-extinction. To make an extinct species ‘de-extinct’ is to resurrect it by creating new organisms of the same, or similar, appearance and genetics. The book describes current attempts to resurrect three species, the aurochs, woolly mammoth and passenger pigeon. It then investigates two major philosophical questions such projects throw up. These are the Authenticity Question—‘will the products of de-extinction be authentic members of the original species?’—and the Ethical Question—‘is de-extinction something that should be done?' The book surveys and critically evaluates a raft of arguments for and against the authenticity or de-extinct organisms, and for and against the ethical legitimacy of de-extinction. It concludes, first, that authentic de-extinctions are actually possible, and second, that de-extinction can potentially be ethically legitimate, especially when deployed as part of a ‘freeze now and resurrect later’ conservation strategy. .

Extinct animals --- Genetics. --- Cloning. --- Extirpated animals --- Extirpated species --- Locally extinct animals --- Locally extinct species --- Animals --- Extinction (Biology) --- Philosophy of nature. --- Bioethics. --- Biology-Philosophy. --- Animal genetics. --- Philosophy of Nature. --- Philosophy of Biology. --- Animal Genetics and Genomics. --- Genetics --- Biology --- Biomedical ethics --- Life sciences --- Life sciences ethics --- Science --- Nature --- Nature, Philosophy of --- Natural theology --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Philosophy --- Biology—Philosophy.