Foundations for Designing User-Centered Systems introduces the fundamental human capabilities and characteristics that influence how people use interactive technologies. Organized into four main areas—anthropometrics, behaviour, cognition and social factors—it covers basic research and considers the practical implications of that research on system design. Applying what you learn from this book will help you to design interactive systems that are more usable, more useful and more ...

Twenty-eight stories. One terrifying book!Need a new spine-tingling read?Consumed is a horror & dark fiction anthology featuring 28 macabre tales on the theme of food and drink, with stories from:U.M. Agoawike • Ed Ahern • K.G. Anderson • Evan Baughfman • Hannah Baxter • Cedric Bell • Jackson Bell • Tim Brown • Theo Carr • Tom Coombe • Marcus Field • Warren Frey • Gene Gallistel • Zach Gearey • E. Florian Gludovacz • Emma H...

ENDLICH GLÜCKLICH IN GRIECHENLAND? von HELENA DAWSONEin Blick in die Augen des attraktiven Griechen auf dem Platz neben ihr lässt Kate ihre Flugangst vergessen. Dennoch wehrt sie sich gegen ihre Gefühle. Erst als sie Alex in der idyllischen Hafenstadt Kalamata wiedertrifft, traut sie sich, ihm ihr Herz zu öffnen...VERLOCKUNG IN VENEDIG von LUCY GORDONIst es der Zauber der Lagunenstadt oder der Charme Guido Calvanis, der Dulcie in Vene...

The essays in this volume address the displacement of natural and cultural heritage caused by disasters, whether they be dramatic natural impacts or terrible events unleashed by humankind, including holocaust and genocide. Disasters can be natural or human-made, rapid or slow, great or small, yet the impact is effectively the same; nature, people and cultural heritage are displaced or lost. Yet while heritage and place are at risk from disasters, in time,sites of suffering are sometimes re...