David Gilmore – Författare

Diverging from previous ethnographic studies of Spain that have limited themselves primarily to tiny mountain villages, Gilmore focuses on class relations and traditional culture in Fuenmayor, an Andalusian farming town of 8,000, to provide a greater understanding of complex societies. Unlike studies focused on homogeneous villages, Gilmore's study depicts a rural life characterized by class antagonism, political polorization, and occasional violence. As an ethnographic study of a single community, "The People of the Plain" breaks new ground by exploring the relationship between class conflict, political regression, and traditional culture in a modern complex society. At the same time, it provides an engaging view of Andalusian rural life in the twilight of the Franco regime.

This text provides one of the currently available overviews of human-computer interaction across different cultures, disciplines and countries. It contains the selected proceedings of Interact '95 - the Fifth International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction - arranged by the International Federation for Information Processing and held in Lillehammer, Norway, in June 1995. The underlying theme of this book is bringing people together. It focuses on computers enabling people to communicate and co-operate with each other. Case studies, research and theory, education and training are discussed. Chapters explore topics such as: people interacting with robot technologies; technologies for the disabled; video conferencing and shared workspaces; and bringing design teams together with an organization. This text should prove useful to academics and researchers working in human-computer interaction.