Earnshaw R.A. (2018): “Research and Development in Digital Media”, Springer, Switzerland ISBN: 978-3-319-73079-0.  Downloads of the e-book as at 23 May 2018 = 738, 28 June = 901, 3 July = 919, 26 Aug = 1,290, 12 Oct = 1,511   For more information see: https://www.springer.com/gb/book/9783319730790

Earnshaw R.A. (2017): “State of the Art in Digital Media and Applications”, Springer, Switzerland ISBN: 978-3-319-61408-3.  Downloads of the e-book as at 23 May 2018 = 1,388, 28 June = 1,484, 3 July = 1,492, 26 Aug = 1,619, 12 Oct = 2,207   For more information see: http://www.springer.com/gb/book/9783319614083

Earnshaw R.A. (2017): “Art, Design and Technology: Collaboration and Implementation”, Springer, Switzerland ISBN: 978-3-319-58120-0.  Downloads of the e-book as at 23 May 2018 = 2,907, 28 June = 3,019, 3 July = 3,049, 26 Aug = 3,198, 12 Oct = 3,368   For more information see: https://www.springer.com/gb/book/9783319581200

Earnshaw R.A. (2017): “Research and Development in the Academy, Creative Industries and Applications”, Springer, Switzerland ISBN: 978-3-319-54080-1.  Downloads as at 23 May = 1, 691, 28 June = 1,767, 3 July = 1,767, 26 Aug = 1,866, 12 Oct = 2,014   For more information see: https://www.springer.com/gb/book/9783319540801

Earnshaw R.A. (2016): “Research and Development in Art, Design, and Creativity”, Springer, Switzerland ISBN: 978-3-319-33004-4.  Downloads of the e-book as at 23 May 2018 = 2,019, 28 June = 2,069, 3 July = 2,102, 26 Aug = 2,230, 12 Oct = 2,351   For more information see: http://www.springer.com/gb/book/9783319330044

The 5th and latest book is “Research and Development in Digital Media”.  The manuscript was delivered to the publisher, Springer, on 15 November 2017.  Publication date was 5 February 2018.  The Foreword was provided by Professor John Vince.  This book is a companion volume to the previous one on “State of the Art in Digital Media and Applications”.  The latter presents a user view of digital media and applications.  “Research and Development in Digital Media” presents an overview of the underpinning and technical aspects of digital media. ISBN – 978-3-319-73079-0. Springer web page for the book –

The 4th book on “State of the Art in Digital Media and Applications” by R. A. Earnshaw was published on 15 September 2017.  Springer web site for the book is – http://www.springer.com/gb/book/9783319614083   Foreword by Professor Kellogg S. Booth, University of British Columbia, Canada.  https://www.cs.ubc.ca/people/kellogg-booth   Recipient of the 2016 Canadian Digital Media Pioneer Award.  http://graphicsinterface.org/awards/cdmp/kellogg-s-booth/.

The 3rd book is “Art, Design and Technology: Collaboration and Implementation” by R. A. Earnshaw.  Springer web site for the book is – http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319581200    Foreword by Professor Daniel Thalmann, NTU, Singapore and EPFL, Switzerland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Thalmann    Published by Springer on 16 June 2017

The 2nd book “Research and Development in the Academy, Creative Industries and Applications”, R. A. Earnshaw, was published by Springer March 2017.    http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54081-8  Foreword by Professor John Dill, Simon Fraser University, Canada.https://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stories/2016/-sfu-visual-analytics-pioneer-recognized-with-career-award.html

“Research and Development in Art, Design and Creativity”, R. A. Earnshaw, Springer, 2016. http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-33005-1  Foreword by Professor James D. Foley, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_D._Foley  and http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/Jim.Foley/foley.html

Two books in the above (numbers 2 and 3, where the immediate book above published in 2016 is counted as number 1) each have 3 Case Studies written by external specialists to illustrate how the principles set out earlier in the book have worked out in practice and the lessons learned.

Level of the Material

The level of the material is appropriate for first year graduate students and in some cases final year undergraduates.  Given the page limitations in the Springer Briefs series, each chapter is an executive summary of a particular topic area and there is an extensive list of References at the end of each chapter for those readers wishing to “drill down” to further detail on the current research issues and challenges.