Joseph R. Matthews

Chapter 1: Data and the experience of place: the use of data in contemporary spatial and cultural studies; Data and the sensuous; Inherent paradoxes: positivism and phenomenology; Phenomenology, transcendental philosophies and AI; New prototypes; Environmental, physiological and neurophysiological data; GIS data: navigation, emotions and gender issues; Narratives as data and data as narratives: the politics of what we map; Measuring the intangible; References.
Chapter 2: Data science in the age of Big Data: opportunities and challengesReferences; Chapter 3: Data Multimer: mapping human signals for improved spatial design; Introduction; Some (subjective) issues that led to Multimer; Multimer, and where it came from; Initial pilot studies and findings; Multimer system components; Challenges; Concluding comments: Multimer, diversity, and social inclusion; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 4: Data, emotion, space: FELT communication through computational textile texture; Introduction; Emotion and communication; Computing through the senses.
Related projects and backgroundDesign of FELT; The Study with Five Textures; The FELT study; Study methods; Comments on FELT as a wall panel; Free-association results; Circumplex analysis; Face Word Graphic analysis; Discussion of results to the five hypotheses for the FELT wall panel; Contributions to this work; References; Chapter 5: Responsive-surface design informed by immersive data visualization; Introduction; Noise mitigation: AuralSurface prototype; Daylight mitigation: FlowerWall prototype; Design methodology; Immersive data visualization; Acknowledgments; References.
Chapter 6: Data and comfort assessment: examining the suitability of physiological sensors for assessing comfort in an everyday environmentIntroduction; Hypothesis development; Methods; Data handling; Development of analysis method for within-subject analysis; Results for between-subject analysis; Results for within-subject analysis; Discussion; Conclusions; References; Chapter 7: Data and wayfinding at Thamesmead: applying geolocation and EEG recordings of brain activity for navigation design; Introduction; Thamesmead: setting the scene; Navigation research findings in Thamesmead.
Literature reviewExperiment design/methodology; Fieldwork methodology; Findings; Discussion; Recommendations and opportunities for future development; References; Chapter 8: Virtual reality and EEG data: understanding spatial transitions; Introduction; The designing of the VR experience and space; Recording brain data: EEG; The two sets of experiments; Spatial transitions in architecture; Emotional transitions and observations; Outcome and future work; References; Chapter 9: Data and GPS systems: comparing navigation and landmark knowledge between GPS users and non-GPS users; Introduction.… (altro)

Provides an overview of management theories related to strategic planning. While the discrete points are fine, the way they're put together provides no narrative flow or sense of overall cohesiveness. It's like the author took the one or two day workshop he normally presents and transferred his PowerPoint slides into book format (I don't know if that is true, but that's how it reads).

The first part is chock full of definitions, bullet point lists, and extraneous quotes (at least one of which was mis-attributed despite what the endnotes say.) Parts two and three provide a little more narration, but it's still like the author has a long list of theories to cover (in no more than two pages each) and we're checking things off as we go. There's no opportunity or encouragement for reflection or analysis.

If you're looking for a reference book with brief definitions of prominent management theories or if you like reading jargon-rich PowerPoint slides, this might interest you. Otherwise, try something else first.… (altro)