Mit Press imprint: 940 books
Good Reception
Teens, Teachers, and Mobile Media in a Los Angeles High School
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
A year in the life of a ninth-grade English class shows how participatory culture and mobile devices can transform learning in schools.
Schools and school districts have one approach to innovation: buy more technology. In Good Reception, Antero Garcia describes what happens when educators build...
by Michael Batty
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018
How we can invent—but not predict—the future of cities.
We cannot predict future cities, but we can invent them. Cities are largely unpredictable because they are complex systems that are more like organisms than machines. Neither the laws of economics nor the laws of mechanics apply; cities...
The Expressive Moment
How Interaction (with Music) Shapes Human Empowerment
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
A new way to understand expressive interaction, focusing on the dynamic, fast, pre-reflective processes underlying interactions with music.
The expressive moment is that point in time when we grasp a situation and respond quickly, even before we are aware of it. In this book, Marc Leman argues...
Chasing Men on Fire
The Story of the Search for a Pain Gene
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
A thirty-year quest, from genes to pain-signaling neurons to people with a rare genetic disorder that makes them feel they are on fire.
Two soldiers, both with wounds injuring the same nerve, show very different responses: one is disabled by neuropathic pain, unable to touch the injured limb...
Playing Smart
On Games, Intelligence, and Artificial Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
A new vision of the future of games and game design, enabled by AI.
Can games measure intelligence? How will artificial intelligence inform games of the future? In Playing Smart, Julian Togelius explores the connections between games and intelligence to offer a new vision of future games and...
by Kristine Jørgensen
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013
An investigation into computer game interfaces, both naturalistic and symbolic, and the distinction between gameworlds and other kinds of fictional worlds.
Computer games usually take one of two approaches to presenting game information to players. A game might offer information naturalistically,...
Designing with the Body
Somaesthetic Interaction Design
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2018
Interaction design that entails a qualitative shift from a symbolic, language-oriented stance to an experiential stance that encompasses the entire design and use cycle.
With the rise of ubiquitous technology, data-driven design, and the Internet of Things, our interactions and interfaces with...
Linkography
Unfolding the Design Process
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
The description of a method for the notation and analysis of the creative process in design, drawing on insights from design practice and cognitive psychology.
This book presents linkography, a method for the notation and analysis of the design process. Developed by Gabriela Goldschmidt in...
Efficient Cognition
The Evolution of Representational Decision Making
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
An argument that representational decision making is more cognitively efficient, allowing an organism to adjust more easily to changes in the environment.
Many organisms (including humans) make decisions by relying on mental representations. Not simply a reaction triggered by perception, representational...
Living Zen Remindfully
Retraining Subconscious Awareness
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
A seasoned Zen practitioner and neurologist looks more deeply at mindfulness, connecting it to our subconscious and to memory and creativity.
This is a book for readers who want to probe more deeply into mindfulness. It goes beyond the casual, once-in-awhile meditation in popular culture, grounding...
The Systemic Image
A New Theory of Interactive Real-Time Simulations
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2017
A new conceptualization of the relationship between the systemic and the iconic in real-time simulations that distinguishes among four levels of forming.
Computer simulations conceive objects and situations dynamically, in their changes and progressions. In The Systemic Image, Inge Hinterwaldner...
The Digital Plenitude
The Decline of Elite Culture and the Rise of New Media
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2019
How the creative abundance of today's media culture was made possible by the decline of elitism in the arts and the rise of digital media.
Media culture today encompasses a universe of forms—websites, video games, blogs, books, films, television and radio programs, magazines, and more—and...
by Yu Zheng
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2019
An authoritative treatment of urban computing, offering an overview of the field, fundamental techniques, advanced models, and novel applications.
Urban computing brings powerful computational techniques to bear on such urban challenges as pollution, energy consumption, and traffic congestion....
by Christos H. Papadimitriou
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2005
The world of computation according to Turing, an interactive tutoring program, as told to star-crossed lovers: a novel.
Our hero is Turing, an interactive tutoring program and namesake (or virtual emanation?) of Alan Turing, World War II code breaker and father of computer science. In this...