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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th bi-annual Latin American Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, CLIHC 2013, held in Guanacasta, Costa Rica, in December 2013. The 11 full papers and 14 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 submissions. The papers address all current topics in HCI such as: cultural issues, assistive technologies, usability, accessibility, multimodal inter-faces, design issues, HCI education, and visualization and evaluation techniques, among others.
"The one source that sets reference collections on Latin American studies apart from all other geographic areas of the world.... The Handbook has provided scholars interested in Latin America with a bibliographical source of a quality unavailable to scholars in most other branches of area studies." —Latin American Research Review Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year b...
Roving vigilantes, fear-mongering politicians, hysterical pundits, and the looming shadow of a seven hundred-mile-long fence: the US–Mexican border is one of the most complex and dynamic areas on the planet today. Hyperborder provides the most nuanced portrait yet of this dynamic region. Author Fernando Romero presents a multidisciplinary perspective informed by interviews with numerous academics, researchers, and organizations. Provocatively designed in the style of other kinetic large-scale studies like Rem Koolhaas's Content and Bruce Mau’s Massive Change, Hyperborder is an exhaustively researched report from the front lines of the border debate.
A partir de entrevistas con músicos de distintas generaciones y géneros, el autor realizó un ejercicio periodístico en el que conviven la crónica, el retrato y la historia de vida, cuyo objetivo es contribuir al registro de la historia cultural de esta región a través de testimonios, anécdotas y relatos que en conjunto muestran una panorámica local no sólo de la música y sus protagonistas, sino de los acontecimientos que han transformado Guadalajara en lo relativo a la convivencia social, al desarrollo económico y cultural.
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Natural History and Ecology of Mexico and Central America presents an interesting overview of the frontiers of biodiversity and ecological research in the geographical area of Mexico and Central America. Chapters cover such topics as biodiversity and ecology of plant communities, tropical subterranean ecosystems, floating Sargassum species, the endangered species Dioon edule, Kemp’s ridley sea turtles, fish and fisheries, urbanization and bats, and food and sustainable diet.
The interaction between a user and a device forms the foundation of today’s application design. Covering the following topics: A suite of five structural principles helping designers to structure their mockups; An agile method for exploiting desktop eye tracker equipment in combination with mobile devices; An approach to explore large-scale collections based on classification systems; A framework based on the use of modeling and components composition techniques to simplify the development of organizational collaborative systems; A low-cost virtual reality system that provides highly satisfying virtual experiences; Popular hardware and software tools and technologies for developing augment...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th Mexican Conference on Pattern Recognition, MCPR 2015, held in Mexico City Mexico, in June 2015. The 30 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 63 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on pattern recognition and artificial intelligence; image processing and analysis; robotics and computer vision; natural language processing and recognition; and applications of pattern recognition.