Authors:Sebastiano Bagnara, Gillian Crampton Smith,
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associate
Keywords: factors, ergonomics, series, human, design, practice, interaction, theories
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2006-06-20
List price: $87.95
ISBN-10: 0805856188
ISBN-13: 9780805856187

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 contribution to neighboring disciplines, notably cognitive psychology, computer science, discourse analysis, economics, engineering, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, semiotics and sociology. The following essays, by experts in these disciplines and in int

Authors:Ricardo Tartaglia, Sebastiano Bagnara, Tommaso Bella
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Keywords: healthcare, patient, safety, systems, ergonomics, italy, march, april, florence, international, proceedings, conference, heps
Number of Pages: 587
Published: 2005-03-20
List price: $144.95
ISBN-10: 041537782X
ISBN-13: 9780415377829

Incorporating the work of an international team of researchers and professionals, this book examines the complex and challenging issues involved with risk management and patient safety. Taking a systemic and interdisciplinary approach, the book discusses:*System reliability and patient safety*Leadership, staff well-being and care quality*Healthcare organization and information systems*Risk managementa and communication*Usability of medical and surgical devices*Environmental design in hospital*Occupational ergonomics and safety*Human alertness and performance Comprising papers presented at t

Author: Sebastiano Santostefano
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: relational, book, series, perspectives, view, outdoors, child, therapy
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2004-11-12
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0881634263
ISBN-13: 9780881634266

Building on relational conceptualizations of enactment and on developmental research that attests to the role of embodied, nonverbal language in the meanings children impute to their experiences, Sebastiano Santostefano offers this compelling demonstration of effective child therapy conducted in the “great outdoors.”  Specifically, he argues that, for the child, traumatic life-metaphors should be resolved at an embodied rather than an exclusively verbal level; they should be resolved, that is, as they are enacted between child and therapist.  To this end, child and therapist must take ad

Author: Sebastiano Serlio
Publisher: Dover Publications
Keywords: architecture, domestic, serlio
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1997-01-27
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0486293521
ISBN-13: 9780486293523

Sixth book of classic treatise by influential Italian Renaissance architect. Handbook of classical style comprises 76 superb plates—with extensive editorial apparatus—including elevations, floor plans, cutaway views and other images. Farmhouses, workers’ dwellings, pavilions, fortresses, villas, palaces, houses for a king, etc. Also, informative discussions by three noted scholars of Serlio’s life, work, legacy, more. 173 illustrations. Introduction. Notes.

Authors:Giuseppe Nardulli, Sebastiano Stramaglia,
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: signals, biomedical, modelling
Number of Pages: 230
Published: 2002-07-15
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 9810248431
ISBN-13: 9789810248437

Proceedings of the conference held September 19-21, 2001 in Bari, Italy. This book, a result of cross-disciplinary interaction among physicists biologists and physicians, covers several topics where methods and approaches rooted in physics are successfully applied to analyze and to model biomedical data.

Authors:Howard R. Moskowitz PhD, Sebastiano Porretta, Matt
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: design, development, product, food, research, concept
Number of Pages: 612
Published: 2005-02-28
List price: $219.99
ISBN-10: 0813824249
ISBN-13: 9780813824246

Concepts are critical for the development and marketing of products and services. They constitute the blueprint for these products and services, albeit at the level of consumers rather than at the technical level. A good product concept can help make the product a success by guiding developers and advertising in the right direction. Yet, there is a dearth of both practical and scientific information about how to create and evaluate concepts. There has been little or no focus on establishing knowledge bases for concepts. Concept development is too often relegated to the so-called "fuzzy front e