Ethical & Social Aspects of IT

Communications technology is advancing at such speed, heralding a world of choice and opportunity, that we sometimes struggle to navigate each new ...

Inside the life of a hacker and cybercrime culture. Public discourse, from pop culture to political rhetoric, portrays hackers as deceptive, digit...

Artificial Intelligence was meant to be the great social equalizer that helps promote fairness by removing human bias from the equation, but is thi...

The concept of transhumanism emerged in the middle of the 20th century, and has influenced discussions around AI, braincomputer interfaces, genetic...

Sexting. Cyberbullying. Narcissism. Social media has become the dominant force in young people's lives, and each day seems to bring another shockin...

Todays machine-learning systems, trained by data, are so effective that weve invited them to see and hear for usand to make decisions on our behalf...

This book is dedicated to Hermann Maurer on the occasion of his 70th birthday. The title word Rainbow reflects the beauty and variety of the achiev...

The papers in this volume were the fruitful scientific results of the Second International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR), held during Novemb...

Thisbookcontainsthepostproceedingsofthe6thEuropeanWorkshoponPublic Key Services, Applications and Infrastructures, which was held at the CNR Resear...

In a world supported by Ambient Intelligence (AmI), various devices embedded in the environment collectively use the distributed information and th...

ICWL is an annual international conference series on Web-based learning that has so far been held in Asia, Europe and Australia. This series repres...

For almost a decade the International Federation for Information Processing Working Group 8.5 (Information Systems in Public Administration), or IF...

This volume compiles the papers accepted for presentation at the 16thWorking C- ference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Qualit...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Trust and Trustworthy Computing, TRUST 2011, held in Pittsbur...

TheseproceedingscontainthepapersselectedforpresentationatCARDIS 2010, the 9th IFIP Conference on Smart Card Research and Advanced Application hoste...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Task Models and Diagrams for User Interface Design, TAMODIA 200...

In 2011, amid the popular uprising against Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, the government sought in vain to shut down the Internet-based social n...

On behalf of the PROFES Organizing Committee we are proud to present the proce- th ings of the 11 International Conference on Product-Focused Softw...

The past decade has seen tremendous growth in the demand for biometrics and data security technologies in applications ranging from law enforcement...

Living in Digital Worlds investigates the relationship between human society and technology, as our private and particularly our public lives are i...

Digital Playgrounds explores the key developments, trends, debates, and controversies that have shaped childrens commercial digital play spaces ove...

Ethnography and Virtual Worlds is the only book of its kind--a concise, comprehensive, and practical guide for students, teachers, designers, and s...

Once hidden behind the veils of entrepreneurship, it is now clear that platforms are reshaping the world of work, and Amazon has been a forerunner ...