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The crucial role of speech-language pathologists (SLPs) in hospice and palliative settings receives a long-overdue focus in End-of-Life Care Considerations for the Speech-Language Pathologist, the fifth volume in Plural's Medical Speech-Language Pathology book series. Seasoned clinicians provide a practical guide to the terminology, context, and knowledge needed to employ best practices and address the specific needs of patients nearing the end of life. As a profession, speech-language pathology focuses primarily on rehabilitation, with the expectation that patients'function will improve with intervention. For patients with life-limiting conditions, SLPs play an important role in supporting patients'communication, cognition, eating, drinking, and swallowing with an emphasis on quality of living. Clinical professionals require tailored resources to develop their knowledge and skills related to appropriate care and treatment in hospice and palliative care contexts, which have been hard to find until now.

A delightful, engaging, and comprehensive overview of interaction design Effective and engaging design is a critical component of any digital product, from virtual reality software to chatbots, smartphone apps, and more. In the newly updated sixth edition of Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction, a team of accomplished technology, design, and computing professors delivers an intuitive and instructive discussion of the principles underlying the design of effective interactive technologies. The authors discuss how to design and apply digital technologies in the real world, illustrated with numerous examples. The book explores the interdisciplinary foundations of interaction design, including skills from product design, computer science, human and social psychology, and others. The book builds on the highly successful fifth edition and draws on extensive new research and interviews with accomplished professionals and researchers in the field that reflect a rapidly-changing landscape. It is supported by a website hosting digital resources that add to and complement the material contained within. Readers will also find: Explorations of the social and emotional components of interacting with apps, digital devices and computers Descriptions about how to design, prototype, evaluate and construct technologies that support human-computer interaction Discussions of the cognitive aspects of interaction design, as well as design and evaluation, including usability testing and expert reviews. An essential text for undergraduate and graduate students of human-computer interaction, interaction design, software engineering, web design, and information studies, Interaction Design will also prove to be indispensable for interaction design and user experience professionals.Yvonne Rogers is the Director of the Interaction Centre at University College London as well as a Professor of Interaction Design. Helen Sharp is Professor of Software Engineering at the Open University, UK. Jennifer Preece is Professor and Dean Emerita in the College of Information, Maryland's iSchool - at the University of Maryland.

In den letzten Jahren werden – u.a. angestoßen durch transhumanistische Diskurse und einschlägige Publikationen wie Insect Media (Jussi Parikka) oder Das Internet der Tiere (Alexander Pschera) – Tiere und Medien zunehmend auf produktive Weise zusammengedacht. Tiere sind dabei nicht auf die Rolle eines kulturwissenschaftlich beschreibbaren Motivs beschränkt, sondern sie treten in vielfältiger Weise als Mediennutzer in Erscheinung – etwa in der Animal Computer Interaction, die sich zunehmend als eigene Disziplin gegenüber der Human Computer Interaction positioniert. Medien schaffen eine neue Form der Verbindung zu Tieren und können teilweise sogar für die Tiere selbst von Nutzen sein. In dieser Ausgabe von Tierstudien wird deshalb der Animal Turn in den Medienwissenschaften beleuchtet und an konkreten Fallbeispielen aus anderen Fachgebieten gezeigt, auf welche Weise und zu welchem Zweck Tiere als Medien bzw. (Ver-)Mittler fungieren oder eingesetzt werden (können). Beiträger•innen u.a. aus der Philosophie, Geschichtswissenschaft, Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft, aber auch aus Design, Kunst und Computertechnologie analysieren, wie Tiere im Umgang oder im Verbund mit Medien eine spezifische Agency entfalten und welche Rolle diese Agency für gängige Differenzziehungen zwischen den Arten spielt. Wenn Tieren, Menschen und Technik untrennbar miteinander gekoppelt werden, verändert sich nicht nur das Verständnis von Sozialität und Agency, sondern auch die Dominanz des Anthropozentrismus erfährt durch den Blick auf die technisch-mediale Verfasstheit von Tieren und ihr Eingebundensein in sozio-technische Assemblagen eine Einschränkung.

A new edition of the #1 text in the human computer Interaction field! Hugely popular with students and professionals alike, the Fifth Edition of Interaction Design is an ideal resource for learning the interdisciplinary skills needed for interaction design, human-computer interaction, information design, web design, and ubiquitous computing. New to the fifth edition: a chapter on data at scale, which covers developments in the emerging fields of'human data interaction'and data analytics. The chapter demonstrates the many ways organizations manipulate, analyze, and act upon the masses of data being collected with regards to human digital and physical behaviors, the environment, and society at large. Revised and updated throughout, this edition offers a cross-disciplinary, practical, and process-oriented, state-of-the-art introduction to the field, showing not just what principles ought to apply to interaction design, but crucially how they can be applied. Explains how to use design and evaluation techniques for developing successful interactive technologies Demonstrates, through many examples, the cognitive, social and affective issues that underpin the design of these technologies Provides thought-provoking design dilemmas and interviews with expert designers and researchers Uses a strong pedagogical format to foster understanding and enjoyment An accompanying website contains extensive additional teaching and learning material including slides for each chapter, comments on chapter activities, and a number of in-depth case studies written by researchers and designers.

This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Agile Software Development, XP 2016, held in Edinburgh, UK, in May 2016.While agile development has already become mainstream in industry, this field is still constantly evolving and continues to spur an enormous interest both in industry and academia. To this end, the XP conference attracts a large number of software practitioners and researchers, providing a rare opportunity for interaction between the two communities. The 14 full papers accepted for XP 2016 were selected from 42 submissions. Additionally, 11 experience reports (from 25 submissions) 5 empirical studies (out of 12 submitted) and 5 doctoral papers (from 6 papers submitted) were selected, and in each case the authors were shepherded by an experienced researcher. Generally, all of the submitted papers went through a rigorous peer-review process.

A new edition of the #1 text in the Human Computer Interaction field! Hugely popular with students and professionals alike, Interaction Design is an ideal resource for learning the interdisciplinary skills needed for interaction design, human–computer interaction, information design, web design and ubiquitous computing. This text offers a cross-disciplinary, practical and process-oriented introduction to the field, showing not just what principles ought to apply to interaction design, but crucially how they can be applied. An accompanying website contains extensive additional teaching and learning material including slides for each chapter, comments on chapter activities and a number of in-depth case studies written by researchers and designers.