This book is a multidisciplinary study of the translation and localisation of video games. It
offers a descriptive analysis of the industry–understood as a global phenomenon in …

In 2001, Paul Dourish proposed the term embodied interaction to describe a new paradigm
for interaction design that focuses on the physical, bodily, and social aspects of our …

The demand and opportunity for cross-cultural technology design is rapidly rising due to
globalization. However, all too often resulting technologies are technically usable, yet …

A teachers' training project, employing teacher-mentored in-school training approach, has
been recently initiated in Greek secondary education for the introduction of Information and …

There is growing interest in designing for movement-based interactions with technology,
now that various sensing technologies are available enabling a range of movement …

The coming ubiquity of computational things urges us to consider what it means for
something to be present in someone's life, in contrast to being just used for something." Use" …

We present an interaction model for beyond-desktop visualizations that combines the
visualization reference model with the instrumental interaction paradigm. Beyond-desktop …

Purpose This research theorizes the condition of human beings reduced to being users (and
only users) in human-computer interaction (HCI), a condition that favors them becoming …

New interactive applications, artifacts, and systems are constantly being added to our
environments, and there are some concerns in the human–computer interaction research …

An investigation of interactivity, interfaces and their design, and the webs of complex
interactions that result. We are surrounded by interactive devices, artifacts, and systems. The …