Geopolitical Issues in Human Computer Interaction

Human-Computer Interaction Issues in Human Computation

Sustainability Issues in Human Computer Interaction Design

The ICT market is growing rapidly and more business and social networking systems is crossing over to less developed regions. This IT usage expansion is associated with increasing environmental threats in the form of greenhouse effects and hardly decommissioned e-waste. For this reason sustainable development became an issue in the last two decades of the 20 century. Recently, sustainable softw...

Privacy Issues and Human-Computer Interaction

Privacy can be a key aspect of the user experience with computers, online systems, and new technologies. Knowing what to consider about users and their views of computer systems can only improve privacy mechanisms. Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is the subfield of Computer Science that studies how people interact with and through computational technologies. This chapter examines what HCI, as ...

Wearable Computer Interaction Issues in Mediated Human to Human Communication

This thesis presents the use of wearable computers as mediators for human to human communication. As the market for on-body wearable technology grows, the importance of efficient interactions through such technology becomes more significant. Novel forms of communication is made possible due to the highly mobile nature of a wearable computer coupled to a person. A person can, for example, delive...

Geopolitical Issues of Natural Gas Trade in Northeast Asia

 This work was supported by the Academy of Korean Studies of the Republic of Korea in year 2012-2013 (AKS-2010-CAA-2101) Energy security has assumed newfound geopolitical importance at the outset of XXI century (Moran and Russell, 2008). Diminishing fossil fuel supplies have led to fears of energy shortages, while rapid economic and population growth have fuelled the demand for cheap, clean and...