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How can we find strength in stressful times? How can we lead fuller, more effective lives? In thirty-three perceptive meditations, Herbert O'Driscoll probes these compelling questions. With gifted insight, he considers the serious challenges of being human, searches key events in the life of Jesus, and discovers new vitality and guidance for our living. Jesus knew the fear of pain, the stress of work, the grace of love. He provided spiritual hope and the ethical model for Western civilization. Herbert O'Driscoll shows us how the healing wisdom and power of Jesus' life can transform our own lives today.
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This book will give you a practical overview of several methods and approaches for designing mobile technologies and conducting mobile user research, including how to understand behavior and evaluate how such technologies are being (or may be) used out in the world. Each chapter includes case studies from our own work and highlights advantages, limitations, and very practical steps that should be taken to increase the validity of the studies you conduct and the data you collect. This book is intended as a practical guide for conducting mobile research focused on the user and their experience. We hope that the depth and breadth of case studies presented, as well as specific best practices, will help you to design the best technologies possible and choose appropriate methods to gather ethical, reliable, and generalizable data to explore the use of mobile technologies out in the world.
It is easy to imagine that a future populated with an ever-increasing number of mobile and pervasive devices that record our minute goings and doings will significantly expand the amount of information that will be collected, stored, processed, and shared about us by both corporations and governments. The vast majority of this data is likely to benefit us greatly—making our lives more convenient, efficient, and safer through custom-tailored and context-aware services that anticipate what we need, where we need it, and when we need it. But beneath all this convenience, efficiency, and safety lurks the risk of losing control and awareness of what is known about us in the many different conte...