Here are some current titles about robots and robotics from the library collection:
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Loving the machine : the art and science of Japanese robots / Timothy N. Hornyak. Circulating Collection, 3rd floor TJ211 .H66 2006
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Robots, machines in man's image / Isaac Asimov and Karen A. Frenkel.
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Sublime dreams of living machines [electronic resource] : the automaton in the European imagination / Minsoo Kang.
TJ211.15 .K36 2011eb |
Multi-modal interaction management for a robot companion / Shuyin Li. Circulating Collection, 3rd floor TJ211.49 .L5 2008 |
Search for other titles in WorldCat Discovery using "robots," and "robotics" to obtain a good selection. Limit your search to "Shepherd University" to locate titles found at Scarborough Library.
Here are two science fiction titles that deal with themes and issues raised in the Common Reading:
Those amazing electronic thinking machines! : an anthology of robot and computer stories / edited by Isaac Asimov, Martin S. [i.e. H.] Greenberg, Charles H. [i.e. G.] Waugh.
1983
PZ5 .T37 1983
Nineteen eighty-four, a novel.
1949
PR6029.R8 N5 1949
Search for other titles in WorldCat Discovery using "Asimov, Isaac," "Bradbury, Ray" in author search to begin finding titles of interest. Limit your search to "Shepherd University" to locate titles held at Scarborough Library.
One of the main topics in this year's Common Reading is that of how technology affects social interactions. Here are some current selections from the library's collection on this and other related topics
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Mobile wave : how mobile intelligence will change everything / Michael Saylor.
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No sense of place : the impact of electronic media on social behavior / Joshua Meyrowitz.
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IBrain : surviving the technological alteration of the modern mind / Gary Small and Gigi Vorgan. Circulating Collection, 3rd floorQP376 .S6377 2008
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Sign here! [electronic resource] : handwriting in the age of new media / edited by Sonja Neef, José van Dijck, and Eric Ketelaar. NetLibrary. Online eBook. Click on Linked Resource
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Breakup 2.0 : disconnecting over new media / Ilana Gershon. |
Affective computing and interaction [electronic resource] : psychological, cognitive and neuroscientific perspectives / [edited by] Didem Gökçay, Gülsen Yildirim. NetLibrary. Online eBook. Click on Linked Resource QA76.9.H85 A485 2011eb |
Search for other titles in WorldCat Discovery using "computer," "information technology," and "human-computer interaction" to obtain a good selection. Limit your search to "Shepherd University" to locate items held specifically at Scarborough LIbrary.
