[PDF] The Interaction Of Objects eBook

Author : Maurice Nevile
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 28,85 MB
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9027269831

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Objects are essential for how, together, people create and experience social life and relate to the physical environment around them. Interacting with Objects: Language, materiality, and social activity presents studies which use video recordings of real-life settings to explore how objects feature in social interaction and activity. The studies consider many objects (e.g. paper documents, food, a camera, art, furniture, and even the human body), across various situations, such as shopping, visiting the doctor, interviews and meetings, surgery, and instruction in dance, craft, or cooking. Analyses reveal in precise detail how, as people interact, objects are seen, touched and handled, heard, created, transformed, planned, imagined, shared, discussed, or appreciated. With the companion collection Multiactivity in Social Interaction: Beyond multitasking, the book advances understanding of the complex organisation and accomplishment of social interaction, especially the significance of embodiment, materiality, participation and temporality. By focussing on objects in and for actual occasions of human action, Interacting with Objects: Language, materiality, and social activity will interest many researchers and practitioners in language and social interaction, communication and discourse, design, and also more widely within anthropology, sociology, psychology, and related disciplines.

Author : Pentti Haddington
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 34,70 MB
Release : 2023-10-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3031307275

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Everyday social life is deeply tied to the ways in which people talk, interact, and engage in joint activities with each other. This book examines language use and social interaction through the lens of complexity, focusing on how participants establish and maintain shared understanding in multi-layered situations and settings. This book will find readership among students and scholars who use video-based methods and are interested in interaction, intersubjectivity and multimodality.

Author : David J. Lilja
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 12,81 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1461526841

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In brief summary, the following results were presented in this work: • A linear time approach was developed to find register requirements for any specified CS schedule or filled MRT. • An algorithm was developed for finding register requirements for any kernel that has a dependence graph that is acyclic and has no data reuse on machines with depth independent instruction templates. • We presented an efficient method of estimating register requirements as a function of pipeline depth. • We developed a technique for efficiently finding bounds on register require ments as a function of pipeline depth. • Presented experimental data to verify these new techniques. • discussed some interesting design points for register file size on a number of different architectures. REFERENCES [1] Robert P. Colwell, Robert P. Nix, John J O'Donnell, David B Papworth, and Paul K. Rodman. A VLIW Architecture for a Trace Scheduling Com piler. In Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, pages 180-192, 1982. [2] C. Eisenbeis, W. Jalby, and A. Lichnewsky. Compile-Time Optimization of Memory and Register Usage on the Cray-2. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Languages and Compilers, Urbana l/inois, August 1989. [3] C. Eisenbeis, William Jalby, and Alain Lichnewsky. Squeezing More CPU Performance Out of a Cray-2 by Vector Block Scheduling. In Proceedings of Supercomputing '88, pages 237-246, 1988. [4] Michael J. Flynn. Very High-Speed Computing Systems. Proceedings of the IEEE, 54:1901-1909, December 1966.

Author : Lee M. Panich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 697 pages
File Size : 11,3 MB
Release : 2021-07-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1000403610

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The Routledge Handbook of the Archaeology of Indigenous-Colonial Interaction in the Americas brings together scholars from across the hemisphere to examine how archaeology can highlight the myriad ways that Indigenous people have negotiated colonial systems from the fifteenth century through to today. The contributions offer a comprehensive look at where the archaeology of colonialism has been and where it is heading. Geographically diverse case studies highlight longstanding theoretical and methodological issues as well as emerging topics in the field. The organization of chapters by key issues and topics, rather than by geography, fosters exploration of the commonalities and contrasts between historical contingencies and scholarly interpretations. Throughout the volume, Indigenous and non-Indigenous contributors grapple with the continued colonial nature of archaeology and highlight Native perspectives on the potential of using archaeology to remember and tell colonial histories. This volume is the ideal starting point for students interested in how archaeology can illuminate Indigenous agency in colonial settings. Professionals, including academic and cultural resource management archaeologists, will find it a convenient reference for a range of topics related to the archaeology of colonialism in the Americas.

Author : Juha-Pekka Alarauhio
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 17,49 MB
Release : 2022-05-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3030991040

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This book emphasizes humans interacting and participating in making meaning with multimodal resources and relating experience via intermedial means. The contributors explore diverse ways of mediating work, education, arts, and culture, and ask how interactive participation involves experiences of the north either as a physical setting or a more abstract cultural condition that shapes the activity. The ten chapters engage with topical theoretical debate and put novel methodology to test, providing essential reading for scholars and students in this rich and rapidly developing global field of research.

Author : Elisabeth Reber
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 34,68 MB
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027281653

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How do participants display affectivity in social interaction? Based on recordings of authentic everyday conversations and radio phone-ins, this study offers a fine-grained analysis of how recipients of affect-laden informings deploy sound objects, i.e. interjections (oh, ooh and ah) and paralinguistic signals (whistle and clicks), for responsive displays of affectivity. Examining the use of such sound objects across a number of interactional activities including news telling, troubles talk, complaining, assessments and repair, the study provides evidence that the sound pattern and sequential placement of sound objects systematically contribute to their specific meaning-making in interaction, i.e. the management of sequence organisation and interactional relevancies (e.g. affiliation). Presenting an in-depth analysis of a little researched area of language use from an interactional linguistic perspective, the book will be of theoretical and methodological interest to an audience with a background in linguistics, sociology and conversational studies.

Author : Marc H. Bornstein
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 22,45 MB
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 131778605X

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Interaction in Human Development unites theoretical essays and empirical accounts bearing directly on the nature of interactions as a principal factor and organizing feature in human mental and social development. The papers discuss all areas of interaction including genetic, environmental, life-span, interpersonal, and cultural. Ideal as a text for students and as a reference for professionals in personality, developmental, educational, and environmental psychology, psychotherapy, behavioral medicine, and language.

Author : Sebastiano Bagnara
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 18,93 MB
Release : 2006-06-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1482269538

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Ad hoc and interdisciplinary, the field of interaction design claims no unified theory. Yet guidelines are needed. In essays by 26 major thinkers and designers, this book presents the rich mosaic of ideas which nourish the lively art of interaction design. The editors introduction is a critical survey of interaction design with a debt and contribut