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HCI for Cybersecurity, Privacy and Trust: 5th International Conference, HCI-CPT 2023, Held as Part of the 25th HCI International Conference, HCII 2023, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 23–28, 2023, Proceedings

Abbas Moallem

This proceedings, HCI-CPT 2023, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cybersecurity, Privacy and Trust, held as Part of the 24th International Conference, HCI International 2023, which took place in July 2023 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The total of 1578 papers and 396 posters included in the HCII 2023 proceedings volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 7472 submissions. The HCI-CPT 2023 proceedings focuses on to user privacy and data protection, trustworthiness and user experience in cybersecurity, multifaceted authentication methods and tools, HCI in cyber defense and protection, studies on usable security in Intelligent Environments. The conference focused on HCI principles, methods and tools in order to address the numerous and complex threats which put at risk computer-mediated human-activities in today’s society, which is progressively becoming more intertwined with and dependent on interactive technologies.
Global Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Sarika Pruthi

In a globalized world, entrepreneurial ventures tend to function internationally across a range of different countries and regions to be successful. It is vital, therefore, for entrepreneurs, innovators, and business professionals to be thinking and acting with a global mindset. This comprehensive textbook helps to develop such a mindset by drawing on theory, research, examples and case studies. There is a strong focus on developing countries and emerging economies throughout the text given the centrality of these markets to successful business today. Dedicated chapters shine a unique spotlight on timely topics such as migration, immigration, ethnicity, and digitalization in relation to entrepreneurship. Case studies and examples are included from around the world and include small start-ups, SMEs and well-known international brands such as Amazon, Dyson and Uber. Written in an accessible style for readers, there are additionally a wide range of learning features in each chapter including learning outcomes, summaries and discussion questions, alongside visual aids.This text is essential reading for university and college courses related to international entrepreneurship and global innovation.
The Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication, Second Edition

Rona Tamiko Halualani and Thomas K. Nakayama

The Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication stands as the premier collection of contemporary and relevant readings that define, delineate, and inhabit what it means to “do critical intercultural communication.” This handbook features the latest research and contributions from leading scholars in the field, covering core theoretical, methodological, and applied works that give shape to the arena of critical intercultural communication studies. This is the only handbook to cover the state and nature of critical intercultural communication studies.
Public Art as Resistance in San Jose

Katherine D. Harris, Kerri J. Malloy, and Alena Sauzade

Public Art as Resistance in San José, an ongoing project with a series of activities that investigates the history of resistance embedded in downtown San José public art. The research required to create a walking tour, panel of art experts, and community exhibit each act as sites of community dialogue and engagement that can afford agency through art. The primary resulting activity, a guided walking tour, begins on the urban campus of San José State University and continues through downtown San José, highlighting a history of resistance and community empowerment through twelve unique works of public art. While the art works that make up this tour are among the many murals, monuments, sculptures and ephemeral pieces of pieces of public art in this area and in the city at large, this particular walking tour takes a singular approach by considering how San José’s communities actively challenge narrow and exclusionary interpretations of local history through public art creation. The digital footprint for this project as a static website and a self-guided tour using a free mobile app, will be amplified with proposed funding requests to the National Endowment for the Humanities to create an augmented reality version in a unique mobile app that will create a sustainable digital representation of this tour and all of its collaborative partnerships. We continue to add works of art (and unfortunately retire some due to demolition of murals on buildings) with each successful funding. The activities inherent to building this project may become one of the future HonorsX courses and continue the tradition of our SJSU students becoming tour guides and experts about the social justice of public art.
Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Analytics for Food Security

Chandrasekar Vuppalapati

Climate change, increasing population, food-versus-fuel economics, pandemics, etc. pose a threat to food security to unprecedented levels. It has fallen upon the practitioners of agriculture and technologists of the world to innovate and become more productive to address the multi-pronged food security challenges. Agricultural innovation is key to managing food security concerns. The infusion of data science, artificial intelligence (AI), advanced analytics, satellites data, geospatial data, climatology, sensor technologies, and climate modeling with traditional agricultural practices such as soil engineering, fertilizers use, and agronomy are some of the best ways to achieve this. Data science helps farmers to unravel patterns in fertilizer pricing, equipment usage, transportation and storage costs, yield per hectare, and weather trends to better plan and spend resources. AI enables farmers to learn from fellow farmers to apply best techniques that are transferred learning from AI to improve agricultural productivity and to achieve financial sustainability. Sensor technologies play an important role in getting real-time farm field data and provide feedback loops to improve overall agricultural practices and can yield huge productivity gains. Advanced Analytics modeling is essential software technique that codifies farmers’ tacit knowledge such as better seed per soil, better feed for dairy cattle breed, or production practices to match weather pattern that was acquired over years of their hard work to share with worldwide farmers to improve overall production efficiencies, the best antidote to food security issue. In addition to the paradigm shift, economic sustainability of small farms is a major enabler of food security. The book reviews all these technological advances and proposes macroeconomic pricing models that data mines macroeconomic signals and the influence of global economic trends on small farm sustainability to provide actionable insights to farmers to avert any financial disasters due to recurrent economic crises.
Feedback for Continuous Improvement in the Classroom: New Perspectives, Practices, and Possibilities

Carrie Holmberg and Brent Duckor

Educators Brent Duckor and Carrie Holmberg show you how to plan, enact, and reflect on feedback practices within lessons and across units using an accessible, comprehensive, and innovative framework that illuminates the path towards equity and excellence for all. With evidence-based research and real classroom examples, Feedback for Continuous Improvement in the Classroom answers: What is formative feedback? How does it influence student outcomes and teacher pedagogy? Why are well-defined learning goals, aligned with rich tasks and progress guides, essential to making feedback truly formative? What are essential facets of teacher, peer, and self-driven feedback? How does feedback work best in whole-class, small group, or individual configurations? What can make written, spoken, and nonverbal feedback modalities more effective—for all? How can focusing on feedback improve learning across all subject matter disciplines? Prompts for self-reflection, videos, vignettes, and scaffolds throughout help readers see how effective feedback can be embedded into classrooms and school communities committed to discovery, growth, and deeper learning.
The Long Shore: Archaeologies and Social Histories of California's Maritime Cultural Landscapes

Marco Meniketti

The book offers insights into cultural landscapes of California that reaches beyond the confines of waterfronts to include Indigenous practices of maritime -oriented tribes to the Portuguese shore whalers, Italian fishermen, Chinese abalone harvesters, ship breakers, and logging schooners. The book uses an archaeological lens to examine the social relationships and material culture the diverse communities that lived on California's long shore.
Abandoning Their Beloved Land: The politics of Bracero Migration in Mexico

Alberto García

Abandoning Their Beloved Land is a new history of the Bracero Program, a bilateral initiative that allowed Mexican men to work in the US as seasonal contract farmworkers (braceros) between 1942 and 1964. This book uses national, regional, and local Mexican archival collections to explore the political factors that shaped the administration of the bracero selection process in Mexico, as well as individual decisions to migrate as braceros.
Tips for Writing Well: Research-Based Principles

Scott Alkire

This handbook for academic writers asks, Do you have something to say? Do you know what you are talking about? Do you have credible sources? Can you say what you have to say as clearly as possible? Can you avoid cliches and ready-made phrases? The principles embedded in these questions, along with 20 more, comprise this book. Two essays putting into action the principles for good writing set forth conclude the volume.
Steady and Measured: Benner C. Turner, A Black College President in the Jim Crow South

Travis D. Boyce

Steady and Measured chronicles the life, and reassesses the career, of Benner C. Turner, an African American collegiate president at South Carolina State College, a historically black college in Orangeburg, South Carolina. Although critical of civil rights activism on campus, he championed black education through the pragmatic leadership of his struggling institution.
Weight of Dreams

Irene Carvajal

Inspired by Carvajal’s own immigrant journey and objects found in her family home back in Costa Rica, the Weight of Dreams is a site specific kinetic installation comprised of cast porcelain bells and laser cut objects suspended and interconnected by monofilament. The sounds and fragmented images created by the installation serve as a metaphor to the memories and echos of an immigrant’s past. One of 42 art installations selected to be part of THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT exhibition (September-October 2023) in Athens, Greece. Curated by Kostas Prapoglou.
Specialty Crops for Climate Change Adaptation: Strategies for Enhanced Food Security by Using Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

Chandrasekar Vuppalapati

Specialty crops are defined as fruits and vegetables, tree nuts, dried fruits, horticulture, and nursery crops including floriculture. The value of specialty crop production in the United States accounted for 18.44 % of the $433.569 billion in agriculture cash receipts collected in 2021. In 2020, that ratio was 21.47% of the $363.464 billion. Specialty crops are gaining increasing attention across nation as demonstrated in the 2018 farm bill (Agricultural Act of the 2018 Farm Bill (P.L. 115-334)) with the increased number of provisions addressing specialty crop issues, reflecting their growing role in the global economy. The cultivation of Specialty crops, nevertheless, has its own challenges. Specialty crops are generally more sensitive to climatic stressors and require more comprehensive management compared to traditional row crops. Specialty crops face significant financial risks threatening US$1.6 Trillion global market due to their higher water demand. The mission of the book is to prepare current and future software engineering teams, agriculture students, economists, macroeconomists with the skills and tools to fully utilize advanced data science, artificial intelligence, climate patterns, and economic models to develop software capabilities that help to achieve Specialty crops and economic sustainability, through improved productivity for years to come and ensure enough food for the future of the planet and generations to come!
Scenic design for "Fannie - The Music and Life of Fannie Lou Hamer"

Andrea Bechert

I was the Scenic Designer for the production of "Fannie - The Music and Life of Fannie Lou Hamer" at the TheatreWorks which opened at the Lucie Stern Theatre in Palo Alto on March 8, 2023. As the Scenic Designer, I oversee the design and visual aspects in three departments, and work directly with the people in those departments. These areas are Scenery (the architectural aspects of the setting), Scenic Art & Paints (the textures, painting, and finish of the scenery), and Properties (anything that you would move in or out of your house in a moving van including all décor). I can provide a ¼”=1’-0” scale color model, paint elevations, and drafting.
San Jose.STL

Yoon Chung Han

San José.STL is the culmination of a San José State University-based project that included two creative learning workshops intended to introduce community members to the technology and creative potential of 3D printing. Offered in partnership with Chopsticks Alley Art and the San José Museum of Art, the first workshop took place at the Olinder Community Center in March 2023, and was led by artist Behnaz Farahi. The second workshop, led by UK-based artist Michael Eden, was held at the San José Museum of Art a month later. The free workshops were organized by SJSU Professor Yoon Chung Han, and served a broad cross section of San José’s diverse community. The exhibition is not only a celebration of the outcome, but of curiosity and creativity, community connections, and the power of collaboration.
Public Obsceneties

Sukanya Chakrabarti

When Choton returns to Kolkata on a research trip with his Black American boyfriend Raheem, his grandfather’s photograph stares down at him from the walls of his family home. Choton loves being the translator, toggling nimbly between Bangla and English, interviewing queer locals, showing Raheem his world. But through the lens of Choton’s grandfather’s old camera, Raheem begins to notice things Choton can’t. 'Public Obscenities' is a bilingual play about the things we see, the things we miss, and the things that turn us on.
Optical Multidimensional Coherent Spectroscopy

Christopher Smallwood

This book provides an introduction to optical multidimensional coherent spectroscopy, a relatively new method of studying materials based on using ultrashort light pulses to perform spectroscopy. The technique has been developed and perfected over the last 25 years, resulting in multiple experimental approaches and applications to a broad array of systems ranging from atoms and molecules to solids and biological systems.
Introduction to Quantum Computing

Ahmed Banafa
Indigenous America in the Spanish Language Classroom

Anne Fountain

Provides teachers with key historical and cultural information about Indigenous Peoples throughout the Americas and explains how to incorporate relevant resources. It begins with an overview of the Iberian impact on Indigenous Americans and connects it to language teaching with practical ideas. The book includes ideas for Beginning classes, courses in Conversation, Composition, Linguistics, and Translation and for Advanced Placement Literature and Culture. A separate chapter covers Spanish American Literature and the chapter on Latin American Studies has a focus on Brazil. A distinctive feature of the Ebook lets readers access hundreds of active sites with a single click.
Getting the Runaround: Formerly Incarcerated Men and the Bureaucratic Barriers to Reentry

John Halushka

Getting the Runaround takes readers into the bureaucracy of prisoner reentry, examining how returning citizens navigate the "institutional circuit" of parole offices, public assistance programs, rehabilitation facilities, shelters, and family courts. Tracing the lives of men returning to New York City after incarceration, the book argues that the very institutions charged with facilitating the transition from incarceration to community life perversely undermine reintegration by imposing a litany of bureaucratic obstacles. This "runaround" is not merely a series of inconveniences but rather an extension of state punishment that exacerbates poverty and diminishes citizenship rights. By telling the stories of men caught in vicious cycles of bureaucratic control, Halushka demonstrates the urgent need to shift reentry away from an austerity-driven, compliance-based framework and toward a vision of social justice and inclusion.
Asghar Farhadi: Interviews

Ehsan Khoshbakht and Drew Todd

This volume sheds new light on the life and career of celebrated Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi, whose roots in theatre and then television greatly inform his movies. Hailed by critics today as one of his generation's great dramatist filmmakers, Farhadi reveals much of his craft in a series of interviews given throughout his career up to the present. Translated from Persian into English exclusively for this publication, the interviews offer unique perspectives into the filmmaker's complicated role as artist and celebrity in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
In-Between Worlds: Performing [as] Bauls in an Age of Extremism

Sukanya Chakrabarti

This book examines the performance of Bauls, ‘folk’ performers from Bengal, in the context of a rapidly globalizing Indian economy and against the backdrop of extreme nationalistic discourses. Recognizing their scope beyond the musical and cultural realm, Sukanya Chakrabarti engages in discussing the subversive and transformational potency of Bauls and their performances. In-Between Worlds argues that the Bauls through their musical, spiritual, and cultural performances offer ‘joy’ and ‘spirituality,’ thus making space for what Dr. Ambedkar in his famous 1942 speech had identified as ‘reclamation of human personality’. Chakrabarti destabilizes the category of ‘folk’ as a fixed classification or an origin point, and fractures homogeneous historical representations of the Baul as a ‘folk’ performer and a wandering mendicant exposing the complex heterogeneity that characterizes this group. Establishing ‘folk-ness’ as a performance category, and ‘folk festivals’ as sites of performing ‘folk-ness,’ contributing to a heritage industry that thrives on imagined and recreated nostalgia, Chakrabarti examines different sites that produce varied performative identities of Bauls, probing the limits of such categories while simultaneously advocating for polyvocality and multifocality.While this project has grounded itself firmly in performance studies, it has borrowed extensively from fields of postcolonial studies and subaltern histories, literature, ethnography and ethnomusicology, and cosmopolitan studies.
In the Shadow of Tungurahua: Disaster Politics in Highland Ecuador

A.J. Faas

In the Shadow of Tungurahua is about the people of Penipe, Ecuador living in and between several villages around the volcano Tungurahua and two resettlement communities built for people displaced following volcanic eruptions in 1999 and 2006. The book challenges prevailing ideas about how disasters are produced and reproduced. The disasters unfolding around Tungurahua also provide lessons in the humanitarian politics of disaster—deservingness, inequality, and bare life. But this is also a story of how people responded to confront hardships and craft new futures, about forms of cooperation in disaster, and the potential for locally derived disaster recovery.
Valley of Heart's Delight: Environment and Sense of Place in the Santa Clara Valley

Anne Marie Todd

This agricultural history explores the transformation of the Santa Clara Valley from America's largest fruit-producing region into the technology capital of the world. Extensive archival research and interviews reveal how a sense of place emerges and changes in this evolving agricultural community. A community's sense of place influences a sense of responsibility towards the local environment. Silicon Valley is a non-place, where weakened or disrupted attachment to place threatens the environment and community. The story of the Santa Clara Valley is an American story of the development of agricultural lands and the transformation of rural regions.
We the Elites: Why the US Constitution Serves the Few

Robert Ovetz

Written by 55 of the richest white men, and signed by only 39 of them, the US constitution is the sacred text of American nationalism. Popular perceptions of it are mired in idolatry, myth and misinformation - many Americans have opinions on the constitution but have little idea what it says. This book examines the constitution for what it is – a rulebook for elites to protect capitalism from democracy. Social movements have misplaced faith in the constitution as a tool for achieving justice when it actually impedes social change through the many roadblocks and obstructions we call 'checks and balances'. This stymies urgent progress on issues like labour rights, poverty, public health and climate change, propelling the American people and rest of the world towards destruction.Robert Ovetz's reading of the constitution shows that the system isn't broken. Far from it. It works as it was designed to.
Artificial Intelligence and Heuristics for Enhanced Food Security

Chandrasekar Vuppalapati

"This book introduces readers to advanced data science techniques for signal mining in connection with agriculture. It shows how to apply heuristic modeling to improve farm-level efficiency, and how to use sensors and data intelligence to provide closed-loop feedback, while also providing recommendation techniques that yield actionable insights.
The book also proposes certain macroeconomic pricing models, which data-mine macroeconomic signals and the influence of global economic trends on small-farm sustainability to provide actionable insights to farmers, helping them avoid financial disasters due to recurrent economic crises.
The book is intended to equip current and future software engineering teams and operations research experts with the skills and tools they need in order to fully utilize advanced data science, artificial intelligence, heuristics, and economic models to develop software capabilities that help to achieve sustained food security for future generations."