Knowing Hands: The Cognitive Psychology of Manual Control

by David A Rosenbaum and David A. Rosenbaum

Book Overview

Whenever you get dressed, carry objects, write, draw, or gesture, you express knowledge about how to get things done with your hands. Ironically, that knowledge is often difficult to express. Typically you can't say what you know. Still, it would be enormously useful to identify the knowledge underlying manual control. The design of equipment and transportation systems might better anticipate the abilities and limitations of users, and methods of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 110747664X
• ISBN13: 9781107476646
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"