Usability: Turning Technologies Into Tools

by Paul S. Adler and Terry A. Winograd

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195075102
• ISBN13: 9780195075106
• Release Date: September 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.6"