Digital Interface Handbook

Digital Interface Handbook
Author: John Watkinson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2013-07-18
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1136026096

A digital interface is the technology that allows interconnectivity between multiple pieces of equipment. In other words hardware devices can communicate with each other and accept audio and video material in a variety of forms. The Digital Interface Handbook is a thoroughly detailed manual for those who need to get to grips with digital audio and video systems. Francis Rumsey and John Watkinson bring together their combined experience to shed light on the differences between audio interfaces and show how to make devices 'talk to each' in the digital domain despite their subtle differences. They also include detailed coverage of all the regularly used digital video interfaces. New information included in this third edition: dedicated audio interfaces, audio over computer network interfaces and revised material on practical audio interfacing and synchronisation.

Design and Digital Interfaces

Design and Digital Interfaces
Author: Ben Stopher
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2021-07-15
Genre: Design
ISBN: 1350068292

Are digital interfaces controlling more than we realise? Can designers take responsibility, and should they? From domestic appliances like Siri and Amazon Echo, to large scale Facebook manipulation and Google search prediction, digital interfaces are ubiquitous in everyday life and their influences affect how people live, feel and behave. As they grow in complexity and increase integration into our lives we need to address the social, ethical, political and aesthetic responsibilities of those designing and creating the computer systems all around us. Through discussion with cutting-edge designers and thinkers and with international examples, the authors explain how we need an expanded aesthetic, critical and ethical awareness on the part of designers willing to act with sensitivity and understanding towards the people they design for and with. This critical take on the process and implications of interface design looks beyond the mechanics of making, and into the techno-political realm of deliberate and unintended consequences.

Visual Experiences

Visual Experiences
Author: Carla Viviana Coleman
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 486
Release: 2017-07-31
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1351650343

Visual Experiences: A Concise Guide to Digital Interface Design provides step-by-step examples to enable readers to create an interface, guiding them from sketching an idea to creating an interactive prototype. This creation of a visual experience is achieved in three steps: thought, design, and interaction. This book focuses on the visual experience of digital interface design from the initial idea to end-user prototype. Key Features Shows how to design visual digital interface experiences: a concise guide to creating successful prototypes without programming. Teaches the whole process of how to sketch, design, and create interactions. Unlike other books, this book does not just give a list of terminologies, but workable examples and methods. Includes a wide range of basic to advanced exercises geared towards professionals and students alike. Includes many illustrations throughout the book, guiding the reader through the process.

The Digital Interface and New Media Art Installations

The Digital Interface and New Media Art Installations
Author: Phaedra Shanbaum
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2019-08-22
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0429885997

This book is about the digital interface and its use in interactive new media art installations. It examines the aesthetic aspects of the interface through a theoretical exploration of new media artists, who create, and tactically deploy, digital interfaces in their work in order to question the socio-cultural stakes of a technology that shapes and reshapes relationships between humans and non-humans. In this way, it shows how use of the digital interface provides us with a critical framework for understanding our relationship with technology.

Handbook of Serial Communications Interfaces

Handbook of Serial Communications Interfaces
Author: Louis E. Frenzel
Publisher: Newnes
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2015-08-21
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0128006714

This book catalogs the most popular and commonly used serial-port interfaces and provides details on the specifications and the latest standards, enabling you to select an interface for a new design or verify that an interface is working correctly. Each chapter is based on a different interface and is written in an easy to follow, standard format. With this book you will learn: - The most widely used serial interfaces - How to select the best serial interface for a specific application or design - The trade-offs between data rate and distance (length or range) - The operation and benefits of serial data transmission - The most common media used for serial data transmission - Covers the most popular and commonly used interfaces and provides details on their specifications and standards - Explains the key concepts to enable an engineer to select an interface for a new design or verify that an interface is working correctly - Each chapter is based on a different interface and is written in an easy to follow, standard format

The Best Interface Is No Interface

The Best Interface Is No Interface
Author: Golden Krishna
Publisher: New Riders
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2015-01-31
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0133890422

Our love affair with the digital interface is out of control. We’ve embraced it in the boardroom, the bedroom, and the bathroom. Screens have taken over our lives. Most people spend over eight hours a day staring at a screen, and some “technological innovators” are hoping to grab even more of your eyeball time. You have screens in your pocket, in your car, on your appliances, and maybe even on your face. Average smartphone users check their phones 150 times a day, responding to the addictive buzz of Facebook or emails or Twitter. Are you sick? There’s an app for that! Need to pray? There’s an app for that! Dead? Well, there’s an app for that, too! And most apps are intentionally addictive distractions that end up taking our attention away from things like family, friends, sleep, and oncoming traffic. There’s a better way. In this book, innovator Golden Krishna challenges our world of nagging, screen-based bondage, and shows how we can build a technologically advanced world without digital interfaces. In his insightful, raw, and often hilarious criticism, Golden reveals fascinating ways to think beyond screens using three principles that lead to more meaningful innovation. Whether you’re working in technology, or just wary of a gadget-filled future, you’ll be enlighted and entertained while discovering that the best interface is no interface.

ARRL's HF Digital Handbook

ARRL's HF Digital Handbook
Author: Steve Ford
Publisher: American Radio Relay League
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2007
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0872591034

The Digital Interface Handbook

The Digital Interface Handbook
Author: Francis Rumsey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 290
Release: 1995
Genre: Digital communications
ISBN:

The Digital Interface Handbook is a thoroughly detailed manual for those who need to get to grips with digital audio and video systems. Now that installations in the broadcasting, multimedia and music industries are increasingly all digital, engineers and operators working in these industries need to become more familiar with digital interfaces, their benefits and pitfalls. Digital interfaces are the key to maintaining programme quality throughout the signal chain. In The Digital Interface Handbook Francis Rumsey and John Watkinson bring together their combined expertize to shed light on the differences between audio interfaces such as AES/EBU SPDIF, SDIF, MADI and other manufacturer-specific implementations, showing how to make devices 'talk to each other' in the digital domain despite their subtle differences. They also include detailed coverage of all the regularly used digital video interfaces. Anyone who has spent half a day wondering why two tape recorders will not communicate needs this book! A great deal more information on digital video will be found in this updated, second edition. Now that the subject is reaching a greater degree of standardization, and equipment is entering service in greater quantities, it is possible to include more on the practical applications of video, including how to go about installing equipment, including a discussion of cable lengths.

Wheel-Rail Interface Handbook

Wheel-Rail Interface Handbook
Author: R. Lewis
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 865
Release: 2009-09-25
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1845696786

Many of the engineering problems of particular importance to railways arise at interfaces and the safety-critical role of the wheel/rail interface is widely acknowledged. Better understanding of wheel/rail interfaces is therefore critical to improving the capacity, reliability and safety of the railway system.Wheel-rail interface handbook is a one-stop reference for railway engineering practitioners and academic researchers. Part one provides the fundamentals of contact mechanics, wear, fatigue and lubrication as well as state-of-the-art research and emerging technologies related to the wheel/rail interface and its management. Part two offers an overview of industrial practice from several different regions of the world, thereby providing an invaluable international perspective with practitioners' experience of managing the wheel/rail interface in a variety of environments and circumstances.This comprehensive volume will enable practising railway engineers, in whatever discipline of railway engineering – infrastructure, vehicle design and safety, and so on – to enhance their understanding of wheel/rail issues, which have a major influence on the running of a reliable, efficient and safe railway. - One-stop reference on the important topic of wheel rail-interfaces - Presents the fundamentals of contact mechanics, wear, fatigue and lubrication - Examines state-of-the-art research and emerging technologies related to wheel-rail interface and its management

The Handbook of Multimodal-Multisensor Interfaces, Volume 1

The Handbook of Multimodal-Multisensor Interfaces, Volume 1
Author: Sharon Oviatt
Publisher: Morgan & Claypool
Total Pages: 598
Release: 2017-06-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1970001666

The Handbook of Multimodal-Multisensor Interfaces provides the first authoritative resource on what has become the dominant paradigm for new computer interfaces— user input involving new media (speech, multi-touch, gestures, writing) embedded in multimodal-multisensor interfaces. These interfaces support smart phones, wearables, in-vehicle and robotic applications, and many other areas that are now highly competitive commercially. This edited collection is written by international experts and pioneers in the field. It provides a textbook, reference, and technology roadmap for professionals working in this and related areas. This first volume of the handbook presents relevant theory and neuroscience foundations for guiding the development of high-performance systems. Additional chapters discuss approaches to user modeling and interface designs that support user choice, that synergistically combine modalities with sensors, and that blend multimodal input and output. This volume also highlights an in-depth look at the most common multimodal-multisensor combinations—for example, touch and pen input, haptic and non-speech audio output, and speech-centric systems that co-process either gestures, pen input, gaze, or visible lip movements. A common theme throughout these chapters is supporting mobility and individual differences among users. These handbook chapters provide walk-through examples of system design and processing, information on tools and practical resources for developing and evaluating new systems, and terminology and tutorial support for mastering this emerging field. In the final section of this volume, experts exchange views on a timely and controversial challenge topic, and how they believe multimodal-multisensor interfaces should be designed in the future to most effectively advance human performance.