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Author: Anton Nijholt
Publisher: Springer Verlag, Singapore
Imprint: Springer Verlag, Singapore
Edition: 1st ed. 2017
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 1.60cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 5.207kg
ISBN: 9789811019616
ISBN 10: 9811019614
Pages: 253
Publication Date: 24 October 2016
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
In Playable Cities, edited by Anton Nijholt, several researchers pose ideas for 'smart cities' - developing current metropolitan hubs to allow citizens to 'playfully connect with [their] environments, and with one another, by way of environments.' ... Playable Cities contains a lot of interesting, highly descriptive information on the many facets of the research involving smart cities. ... the amount of Playable Cities contains will be helpful in leading to further research on smart cities ... . (Brian Couch, Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol. 10, 2017)
In Playable Cities, edited by Anton Nijholt, several researchers pose ideas for `smart cities' - developing current metropolitan hubs to allow citizens to `playfully connect with [their] environments, and with one another, by way of environments.' ... Playable Cities contains a lot of interesting, highly descriptive information on the many facets of the research involving smart cities. ... the amount of Playable Cities contains will be helpful in leading to further research on smart cities ... . (Brian Couch, Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol. 10, 2017)
Author Information
Anton Nijholt studied mathematics and computer science at the Technical University of Delft, the Netherlands and received a Ph.D. degree in theoretical computer science from the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in 1980. He is a Professor of Computer Science in the Human Media Interaction group, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands. He held positions at various universities in and outside The Netherlands. His main research interests are entertainment computing, multimodal interaction, affective computing, and brain–computer interfacing. He has hundreds of scientific publications, including (edited) books on the history of computing, language processing, and brain–computer interfacing. Recently he edited three books: “Playful User Interfaces”, “More Playful User Interfaces” and “Entertaining the Whole World”, all with Springer. He has been a guest-editor for Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces, International Journal of Arts and Technology, Entertainment Computing, International Journal of Creative Interfaces and Computer Graphics (IJCICG) and the Brain-Computer Interfaces journal. Presently, he is editing a section on Brain-computer Interaction and Games in a Springer Handbook on Digital Games and Entertainment. Professor Nijholt is also Specialty Chief Editor of Frontiers in Human-Media Interaction and (associate) editor of several other journals. He has also served as Program Chair and General Chair for the main international conferences on affective computing, multimodal interaction, virtual agents, and entertainment computing.
