Computers and Caring: Using Technology to Help Us Care

by Erik T. Mueller

Overview

How can we use technology to help us be more caring to the people around us and to ourselves? This book presents solutions including point of performance systems that help us care in the moment, training systems that teach us strategies for caring, and reflection systems that help us analyze caring in our lives. It reviews existing technological tools and products to support caring. It includes sample code and a case base of how to be caring in forty-eight common situations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781512228625
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	05/15/2015
Pages:	168
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.36(d)

About the Author

Erik Mueller was a member of the IBM team that developed the Watson Jeopardy! system, Watson for Healthcare, and WatsonPaths. His books include Commonsense Reasoning, Daydreaming in Humans and Machines, and Natural Language Processing with ThoughtTreasure. He received an S.B. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles.