Usability: Turning Technologies into Tools
Paul S. Adler, Terry A. Winograd, «Usability: Turning Technologies into Tools»
Oxford University Press | ISBN: 0195075102 | 1992 | PDF | 224 pages | 14.39 MB
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 to satisfy better the demands and contingencies of their work.