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</div>Social Interaction, Globalization and Computer-Aided Analysis. A Practical Guide to Developing Social Simulation<div><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;display:inline"></div>by Alexander Osherenko</div>
<div><br><div class="gmail_default">Springer London, 2014, XVII, 245 p. 82 illus., ISBN:
<span class="">978-1-4471-6259-9 (Print) </span>
<span class="">978-1-4471-6260-5 (Online)</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><p style="margin:0px 0px 0.5em;padding:6px 45px 0px 0px;border:0px">Abstract:</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 0.5em;padding:6px 45px 0px 0px;border:0px">
<font color="#666666" face="myriad, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12px;line-height:15px">Tackling globalization is a great challenge – it is both extremely beneficial and essentially problematic.</span></font></p>
<p style="font-family:myriad,arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 0.5em;padding:6px 45px 0px 0px;border:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;color:rgb(102,102,102)">This comprehensive, multidisciplinary study confronts this ambivalence through the use of computer simulation. It discusses the findings of social interaction and social simulation through the use of understandable global examples. Readers can use this book as a tool to outline significant aspects of intercultural simulation and highlight the issues that need to be considered in the reader’s analysis.</p>
<p style="font-family:myriad,arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 0.5em;padding:6px 45px 0px 0px;border:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;color:rgb(102,102,102)">The author leads the reader via sequential narration from a colloquial description of intercultural situations to final simulation prototypes; each step is accompanied by descriptive comments and program code. <i>Social Interaction, Globalization and Computer-aided Analysis </i>shows the reader how to acquire intercultural data from seemingly inconceivable information sources.</p>
<p style="font-family:myriad,arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 0.5em;padding:6px 45px 0px 0px;border:0px;font-size:12px;line-height:15px;color:rgb(102,102,102)">Researchers and software developers engaged in interdisciplinary research projects in the field of Human-Computer Interaction will find this book to be a useful companion in their work.</p>
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</p></div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr">--<div>Alexander Osherenko, Dr. rer. nat.<div><a href="http://www.humboldt-innovation.de/" target="_blank">Humboldt Innovation</a></div><div>Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin<br>
</div><div>Senior HCI architect</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.socioware.de/" target="_blank">Socioware Development</a><div>Founder and R&D</div></div></div></div></div>
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