Exploration of Space, Technology, and Spatiality: Interdisciplinary Perspectives - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1605660205 ISBN 13: 9781605660202

Publisher: Information Science Reference, 2008

Synopsis

The emerging study of technology in space has been shaping human interaction with physical, social, and technological worlds. Drawing upon a wide range of information technology disciplines, this field is now grabbing the attention of many, including computer scientists, anthropologists, and psychologists craving for more on this intriguing new field.

Exploration of Space, Technology, and Spatiality: Interdisciplinary Perspectives offers stimulating research currently bridging the areas of space, spatiality, and technology. A must-read for researchers and scholars working at the intersection of physical, social, and technological space, this book provides critical research from leading experts in the space technology domain an essential resource for any academic collection.

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About the Author

Phil Turner is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Computing at Napier University. He has a first degree and a PhD in Psychology and an MSc in Computing Science. Phil has some 20 years experience in the domain of human computer interaction in industry and academia and has published extensively. His current work concerns the application of philosophical concepts to develop explanatory frameworks for human computer interaction.

Susan Turner is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Computing at Napier University. Susan has experience in the teaching and research of the human aspects of computing across a variety of domains and a number of related publications. She has a PhD in Design and Computing, an MSc in Information Technology and a first degree in Psychology. Currently she is working on discourse analytic methods for studying the experience of technology.

Elisabeth Davenport is Professor of Information Management at Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland, where she has led and been engaged in numerous research projects in this domain. Her research focus is the interaction of texts, tasks, and technologies in academic and professional domains, and in social contexts outside the workplace such as the home, or the political process and she has an extensive publications history in these areas. She is also Visiting Scholar in the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Indiana.

Edition details

• Publisher: Information Science Reference
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1605660205
• ISBN 13: 9781605660202
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 280
• Editor: Turner Dr Phil, Turner RN Msn Fnp Susan, Davenport Elisabeth