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Record Nr.

UNINA9910143646103321

Titolo

Handheld and ubiquitous computing : first International Symposium, HUC '99, Karlsruhe, Germany, September 27-29, 1999 : proceedings / / Hans-W. Gellersen (editor)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Heidelberg : , : Springer, , [1999]

©1999

ISBN

3-540-48157-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 1999.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XII, 396 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, , 0302-9743 ; ; 1707

Disciplina

004.16

Soggetti

Pocket computers

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Design Probes for Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing -- Maintaining Context and Control in a Digital World -- Everywhere Messaging -- Mobile, Ubiquitous and the Sense of Space -- The Children’s Machines: Handheld and Wearable Computers Too -- Pocket BargainFinder: A Handheld Device for Augmented Commerce -- Scalable and Flexible Location-Based Services for Ubiquitous Information Access -- Enabling Context-Awareness from Network-Level Location Tracking -- Perceptual Intelligence -- Advanced Interaction in Context -- Exploring Brick-Based Navigation and Composition in an Augmented Reality -- Handheld Computing Predictions: What Went Wrong? -- The Open-End Argument for Private Computing -- Integrating PDAs into Distributed Systems: 2K and PalmORB -- Designing Information Appliances Using a Resource Replication Model -- Active Map: A Visualization Tool for Location Awareness to Support Informal Interactions -- Close Encounters: Supporting Mobile Collaboration through Interchange of User Profiles -- A Digital Photography Framework Supporting Social Interaction and Affective Awareness -- The Role of Connectivity in Supporting Context- Sensitive Applications -- Issues in Developing Context-Aware Computing -- RAMSES: A Mobile Computing System for Field Archaeology -- Token-Based Access to Digital Information -- InfoStick: An Interaction Device for Inter-Appliance Computing --



Using Spatial Co-location for Coordination in Ubiquitous Computing Environments -- Amplifying Reality -- Designing Interaction Styles for a Mobile Use Context -- POBox: An Efficient Text Input Method for Handheld and Ubiquitous Computers -- Middleware for Ubiquitous Computing -- Towards a Better Understanding of Context and Context-Awareness -- The MediaCup: Awareness Technology Embedded in an Everyday Object -- Point & Click-Interaction in Smart Environments -- Wearable Information Appliances for the Emergency Services: HotHelmet -- Using Wearable Computer as an Audiovisual Memory Prosthesis -- Today’s Stories -- On the Self Evaluation of a Wearable Assistant -- On Positioning for Augmented Reality Systems -- Hippie: A Nomadic Information System -- A Rapidly Configurable Location-Aware Information System for an Exterior Environment -- Mobile Computing in Machine Engineering Applications -- Chameleon — Reconfigurability in Hand-Held Multimedia Computers -- An Evaluation of WebTwig — A Site Outliner for Handheld Web Access -- Human Factors of Multi-modal Ubiquitous Computing -- URCP: Experimental Support for Multi-modal Interfaces -- Magic Medicine Cabinet: A Situated Portal for Consumer Healthcare -- Augmented Workspace: The World as Your Desktop -- The ChatterBox -- Pollen: Virtual Networks That Use People as Carriers -- VoIP in Context-Aware Communication Spaces -- A Platform for Environment-Aware Applications -- The Design and Implementation of the Ubidata Information Dissemination Framework -- Co-authoring in Dynamic Teams with Mobile Individuals -- A Universal, Location-Aware Hoarding Mechanism -- QoS and Context Awareness for Mobile Computing -- Anonymous and Confidential Communications from an IP Addressless Computer -- Ad-hoc Network Routing for Centralized Information Sharing Systems.

Sommario/riassunto

Truly personal handheld and wearable technologies should be small and unobtrusive and allow access to information and computing most of the time and in most circumstance. Complimentary, environment-based technologies make artifacts of our surrounding world computationally accessible and facilitate use of everyday environments as a ubiquitous computing interface. The International Symposium on Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing, held for the first time in September 1999, was initiated to investigate links and synergies in these developments, and to relate advances in personal technologies to those in environment-based technologies. The HUC 99 Symposium was organised by the University of Karlsruhe, in particular by the Telecooperation Office (TecO) of the Institute for Telematics, in close collaboration with ZKM Karlsruhe, which generously hosted the event in its truly inspiring Center for Arts and Media Technology. The symposium was supported by the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) and the German Computer Society (Gesellschaft f r Informatik, GI) and held in cooperation with a number of special interest groups of these scientific societies. HUC 99 attracted a large number of paper submissions, from which the international programme committee selected 23 high-quality contributions for presentation at the symposium and for inclusion in these proceedings. In addition, posters were solicited to provide an outlet for novel ideas and late-breaking results; selected posters are also included with these proceedings. The technical programme was further complemented by four invited keynote addresses, and two panel sessions.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818877303321

Titolo

Demons and illness from antiquity to the early-modern period / / edited by Siam Bhayro and Catherine Rider

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill Nijhoff, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

90-04-33854-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (447 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Magical and Religious Literature of Late Antiquity, , 2211-016X ; ; Volume 5

Disciplina

202.16

Soggetti

Demonology - History

Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Siam Bhayro and Catherine Rider -- Shifting Alignments: The Dichotomy of Benevolent and Malevolent Demons in Mesopotamia / Gina Konstantopoulos -- The Natural and Supernatural Aspects of Fever in Mesopotamian Medical Texts / András Bácskay -- Illness as Divine Punishment: The Nature and Function of the Disease-Carrier Demons in the Ancient Egyptian Magical Texts / Rita Lucarelli -- Demons at Work in Ancient Mesopotamia / Lorenzo Verderame -- Demons and Illness in Second Temple Judaism: Theory and Practice / Ida Fröhlich -- Illness and Healing through Spell and Incantation in the Dead Sea Scrolls / David Hamidović -- Conceptualizing Demons in Late Antique Judaism / Gideon Bohak -- Oneiric Aggressive Magic: Sleep Disorders in Late Antique Jewish Tradition / Alessia Bellusci -- The Influence of Demons on the Human Mind according to Athenagoras and Tatian / Chiara Crosignani -- Demonic Anti-Music and Spiritual Disorder in the Life of Antony / Sophie Sawicka-Sykes -- Over-Eating Demoniacs in Late Antique Hagiography / Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe -- Miracles and Madness: Dispelling Demons in Twelfth-Century Hagiography / Anne E. Bailey -- Demons in Lapidaries? The Evidence of the Madrid ms Escorial, h.I.15 / M. Carolina Escobar Vargas -- The Melancholy of the Necromancer in Arnau de Vilanova’s Epistle against Demonic Magic / Sebastià Giralt --



Demons, Illness, and Spiritual Aids in Natural Magic and Image Magic / Lauri Ockenström -- Between Medicine and Magic: Spiritual Aetiology and Therapeutics in Medieval Islam / Liana Saif -- Demons, Saints, and the Mad in the Twelfth-Century Miracles of Thomas Becket / Claire Trenery -- The Post-Reformation Challenge to Demonic Possession / Harman Bhogal -- From A Discoverie to The Triall of Witchcraft: Doctor Cotta and Godly John / Pierre Kapitaniak -- Healing with Demons? Preternatural Philosophy and Superstitious Cures in Spanish Inquisitorial Courts / Bradley J. Mollmann -- Afterword: Pandaemonium / Peregrine Horden -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Texts.

Sommario/riassunto

In many near eastern traditions, including Christianity, Judaism and Islam, demons have appeared as a cause of illness from ancient times until at least the early modern period. This volume explores the relationship between demons, illness and treatment comparatively. Its twenty chapters range from Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt to early modern Europe, and include studies of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. They discuss the relationship between ‘demonic’ illnesses and wider ideas about illness, medicine, magic, and the supernatural. A further theme of the volume is the value of treating a wide variety of periods and places, using a comparative approach, and this is highlighted particularly in the volume’s Introduction and Afterword. The chapters originated in an international conference held in 2013.