Usability : Turning Technologies into Tools
As more and more equipment incorporates advanced technologies, usability -- the ability of equipment to take advantage of users' skills and thereby to function effectively in the broad range of real work situations -- is becoming an essential component of equipment design. Usability: Turning Technologies into Tools collects six essays that herald a fundamental shift in the way industry and researchers think about usability. In this new, broader definition, usability no longer means safeguarding against human error, but rather enabling human beings to learn, to use, and to adapt the equipment t
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9780195360578, 9781280442384, 9786610442386, 9781423737155, 0195360575, 1280442387, 661044238X, 1423737156
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Contributors; 1. The Usability Challenge; 2. Design for Usability: Crafting a Strategy for the Design of a New Generation of Xerox Copiers; 3. Designing Effective Systems: A Tool Approach; 4. Skill-Based Design: Productivity, Learning, and Organizational Effectiveness; 5. Scandinavian Design: On Participation and Skill; 6. Work at the Interface: Advanced Manufacturing Technology and Job Design; 7. Enacting Design for the Workplace; Name Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Subject Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q. RS; T; U; V; W; X
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