Description
Technology has been used to perpetrate crimes against humans, animals, and the environment, which include racism, cyber-bulling, illegal pornography, torture, illegal trade of exotic species, irresponsible waste disposal, and other harmful aberrations of human behavior.
Technology for Facilitating Humanity and Combating Social Deviations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives provides a state-of-the-art compendium of research and development on socio-technical approaches to support the prevention, mitigation, and elimination of social deviations with the help of computer science and technology. This book provides historical backgrounds, experimental studies, and future perspectives on the use of computing tools to prevent and deal with physical, psychological and social problems that impact society as a whole.
Author's/Editor's Biography
Miguel Vargas Martin (Ed.)
Miguel Vargas Martin, BSc, MASc, PhD, PEng is an Associate Professor at the University of
Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT). Before joining UOIT, he was a post-doctoral researcher at
Alcatel Canada and Carleton University (Ottawa). He is a licensed Professional Engineer in Ontario
and holds a PhD in Computer Science, a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, and a Bachelor of
Computer Science. He has reported his work in over fifty journals, book chapters, conference papers,
technical reports, and pending patents, and so far has supervised over 20 students at the graduate and
undergraduate level. His current research interests include virtual learning environments, computer
forensics, mitigation of denial-of-service attacks, security and human computer interaction, hidden
communication channels, and web modeling and optimization.
Miguel Garcia-Ruiz (Ed.)
Miguel A. Garcia-Ruiz graduated in Computer Systems engineering and obtained his MSc in
Computer Science from the University of Colima, Mexico. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science
and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Sussex, UK. He took a virtual reality course at Salford
University, UK, and a graphics techniques internship at the Madrid Polytechnic University, Spain.
Miguel is an Associate Professor of Computer Science with the College of Telematics of the University
of Colima. He has published more than sixty scientific papers in major journals, book chapters and two
books, and directed a video documentary on virtual reality. His research interests include virtual reality and usability of multimodal human-computer interfaces. Currently, Miguel is a Visiting Professor
at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada.
Arthur Edwards (Ed.)
Arthur Edwards received his Master’s degree in Education from the University of Houston in 1985. He has been a Researcher-Professor at the University of Colima since 1985, where he has served in various capacities. He has been with the School of Telematics since 1998. His primary areas of research are Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL), distance learning, collaborative learning, multimodal leaning, and mobile learning. The primary focus of his research is presently in the area of mobile collaborative learning.