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The title of this new book: “The Connected Home” reflects the move away from the idea that smart homes would alter the lives of those living in them by providing technologies to take over tasks that were previously the responsibility of the householder, such as managing entertainment, education – and even eating! Up until around 10 years ago this view was commonplace but time has shown that the technologies to support a smart home have not developed in such a way as to support this premise. Instead, what people do in their homes has moved the concept of a smart home into that of the ‘connected home’.  The rise of on-line games technologies, video connections via Skype, social networking, internet browsing etc are now an integral part of the home environment and have had a significant effect on the home. The contributors to this exciting new book consider and discuss the effects and ramifications of the connected home from a variety of viewpoints: an examination of the take-up of personal computers and the Internet in domestic situations; an analysis of the changing intersection of technology and human habits in the connected home; the impact of gaming, texting, e-book readers, tablets and other devices and their effect on the social conditions of a household; the relationship between digital messaging applications and real geography; and an overview of how sensing technologies for the smart home might evolve (lightweight medical technologies for example). The book culminates by addressing unfinished ambitions from the smart home agenda, the factors that have prevented their realisation, and addresses the need for extending research into the area.

Computer science. --- Computers and families. --- Home automation. --- Home computer networks. --- Computers and families --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Electrical & Computer Engineering --- Computer Science --- Electrical Engineering --- Home economics. --- Domestic economy --- Domestic science --- Family and consumer sciences --- Household management --- Household science --- Computers and civilization. --- Personal computers. --- Computer Science. --- Personal Computing. --- Computers and Society. --- Family life education --- Home --- Consumer education --- Formulas, recipes, etc. --- Households --- Informatics --- Science --- Civilization and computers --- Civilization --- Home computers --- Micro computers --- Micros (Microcomputers) --- PCs (Microcomputers) --- Personal computers --- Small computers --- Minicomputers

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SMS or Text is one of the most popular forms of messaging. Yet, despite its immense popularity, SMS has remained unexamined by science. Not only that, but the commercial organisations, who have been forced to offer SMS by a demanding public, have had very little idea why it has been successful. Indeed, they have, until very recently, planned to replace SMS with other messaging services such as MMS. This book is the first to bring together scientific studies into the values that ‘texting’ provides, examining both cultural variation in countries as different as the Philippines and Germany, as well as the differences between SMS and other communications channels like Instant Messaging and the traditional letter. It presents usability and design research which explores how SMS will evolve and what is likely to be the pattern of person-to-person messaging in the future. In short, The Inside Text is a fundamental resource for anyone interested in mobile communications at the start of the 21st Century.

Personal communication service systems --- Wireless communication systems. --- Social aspects. --- Communication systems, Wireless --- Wireless data communication systems --- Wireless information networks --- Wireless telecommunication systems --- Telecommunication systems --- PCS systems --- Personal telecommunication systems --- Personal wireless communication systems --- Personalized communication services --- Wireless personal communication systems --- Wireless communication systems --- Information Technology --- Computer Science (Hardware & Networks) --- Computer science. --- Architectural design. --- Anthropology. --- Computer Science, general. --- User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction. --- Interaction Design. --- Sociology, general. --- Human beings --- Design --- Structural design --- Informatics --- Science --- User interfaces (Computer systems). --- Graphic design. --- Sociology. --- Social theory --- Social sciences --- Interfaces, User (Computer systems) --- Human-machine systems --- Human-computer interaction --- Primitive societies

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Financial organizations, like many others, are undergoing radical change. This is affecting both their organizational processes and the technology that supports those processes. This book reports on the use of sociological ethnography in helping guide these changes, both in terms of helping better understanding and redraw work processes and through providing more accurate and flexible understanding of the role technology plays. It places the reported research in context by contrasting it with those approaches more commonly associated with change, including business process engineering, partici

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Welcome to the proceedings of ICEC 2006 Firstly, we are pleased with the solid work of all the authors who contributed to ICEC 2006 by submitting their papers. ICEC 2006 attracted 47 full paper submissions, 48 short paper submissions in total 95 technical papers. Based on a thorough review and selection process by 85 international experts from academia and industry as members of the Program Committee, a high-quality program was compiled. The International Program Committee consisted of experts from all over the world: 2 from Austria, 1 from Canada, 3 from China, 3 from Finland, 3 from France, 11 from Germany, 2 from Greece, 2 from Ireland, 5 from Italy, 10 from Japan, 1 from Korea, 7 from Netherlands, 2 from Portugal, 1 from Singapore, 3 from Spain, 3 from Sweden, 1 from Switzerland, 15 from UK, and 14 from USA. The final decision was made by review and conference chairs based on at least three reviewers' feedback available online via the conference management tool. As a result, 17 full papers and 17 short papers were accepted as submitted or with minor revisions. For the remaining submissions, 28 were recommended to change according to the reviews and were submitted as posters. This proceedings volume presents 62 technical contributions which are from many different countries: Belgium, Canada, P. R. China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, The Netherlands, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, the UK, and USA.

Entertainment computing --- Divertissement informatique --- Congresses. --- Congrès --- Computer Science --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Computer science. --- Multimedia information systems. --- User interfaces (Computer systems). --- Artificial intelligence. --- Computer graphics. --- Application software. --- Computer Science. --- User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction. --- Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet). --- Multimedia Information Systems. --- Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics). --- Computer Graphics. --- Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities. --- Application computer programs --- Application computer software --- Applications software --- Apps (Computer software) --- Computer software --- Automatic drafting --- Graphic data processing --- Graphics, Computer --- Computer art --- Graphic arts --- Electronic data processing --- Engineering graphics --- Image processing --- AI (Artificial intelligence) --- Artificial thinking --- Electronic brains --- Intellectronics --- Intelligence, Artificial --- Intelligent machines --- Machine intelligence --- Thinking, Artificial --- Bionics --- Cognitive science --- Digital computer simulation --- Logic machines --- Machine theory --- Self-organizing systems --- Simulation methods --- Fifth generation computers --- Neural computers --- Interfaces, User (Computer systems) --- Human-machine systems --- Human-computer interaction --- Computer-based multimedia information systems --- Multimedia computing --- Multimedia information systems --- Multimedia knowledge systems --- Information storage and retrieval systems --- Informatics --- Science --- Digital techniques --- Amusements --- Multimedia systems. --- Information systems. --- Artificial Intelligence.