Exploration of Space, Technology, and Spatiality: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Phil Turner (Napier University, UK), Susan Turner (Napier University, UK), and Elisabeth Davenport (Napier University, UK)

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Publication Status: E-Book and Print Version Available for Purchase

ISBN13: 9781605660202

EISBN13: 9781605660219

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-020-2

Description:

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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The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

Acousmêtre in spatial design
Auditory space
Cognition
Computer mediated communication
Contested terrain
Corporeality
Digital situationalist
Digital stained glass
Geonosy patterns
Gnosis patterns
Information environments
Interactive spectacle
Linearity and surface
Linguistics and information theory
Materializing communication concepts
Measured space
Memory prosthetics
Organizational identities
Organizational space
Pictorial imperative
Pictorial space
Place apprehension
Social space
Spatial Design
Spatial Development
Spatial language
Technosocial space
Virtual space
Visual-narrative
Wireless Sensor Networks

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This book brings together researchers working at the intersections of digital, geographical, geometric, linguistic, information and organisational space. They address complex and challenging issues which cross traditional domains of study, and together bridge perspectives from information science, geography, design, anthropology, computing, psychology and philosophy.

– Phil Turner, Napier University, UK

This collection explores the human understanding of physical space and conceptual spaces, interactions within technological spaces, and the roles of sound, images, and language in defining space.

– Book News Inc. (Decemeber 2008)

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.

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