User Unfriendly

Author : Joseph J. Corn
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781421401928

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User Unfriendly by Joseph J. Corn Pdf

We've all been there. Seduced by the sleek designs and smart capabilities of the newest gadgets, we end up stumped by their complicated set-up instructions and exasperating error messages. In this fascinating history, Joseph J. Corn maps two centuries of consumer frustration and struggle with personal technologies. Aggravation with the new machines people adopt and live with is as old as the industrial revolution. Clocks, sewing machines, cameras, lawn mowers, bicycles, electric lights, cars, and computers: all can empower and exhilarate, but they can also exact a form of servitude. Adopters puzzle over which type and model to buy and then how to operate the device, diagnose its troubles, and meet its insatiable appetite for accessories, replacement parts, or upgrades. It intrigues Corn that we put up with the frustrations our technology thrusts upon us, battling with the unfamiliar and climbing the steep learning curves. It is this ongoing struggle, more than the uses to which we ultimately put our machines, that animates this quizzical study. Having extensively researched owner's manuals, computer user-group newsletters, and how-to literature, Corn brings a fresh, consumer-oriented approach to the history of technology. User Unfriendly will be valuable to historians of technology, students of American culture, and anyone interested in our modern dependency on machines and gadgets.

Author : Vivian Vande Velde
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780547351599

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User Unfriendly by Vivian Vande Velde Pdf

It’s the most advanced computer role-playing game ever: When you play you’re really there—in a dark dream teeming with evil creatures, danger-filled fortresses, and malevolent sorceries. The game plugs directly into your brain—no keyboard, no modem, no monitor. And for game hacker Arvin Rizalli and his friends, no cash up front, no questions asked . . . and no hope of rescue when the game goes horribly, deathly wrong.

Author : Joseph J. Corn
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781421401935

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User Unfriendly by Joseph J. Corn Pdf

We’ve all been there. Seduced by the sleek designs and smart capabilities of the newest gadgets, we end up stumped by their complicated set-up instructions and exasperating error messages. In this fascinating history, Joseph J. Corn maps two centuries of consumer frustration and struggle with personal technologies. Aggravation with the new machines people adopt and live with is as old as the industrial revolution. Clocks, sewing machines, cameras, lawn mowers, bicycles, electric lights, cars, and computers: all can empower and exhilarate, but they can also exact a form of servitude. Adopters puzzle over which type and model to buy and then how to operate the device, diagnose its troubles, and meet its insatiable appetite for accessories, replacement parts, or upgrades. It intrigues Corn that we put up with the frustrations our technology thrusts upon us, battling with the unfamiliar and climbing the steep learning curves. It is this ongoing struggle, more than the uses to which we ultimately put our machines, that animates this thought-provoking study. Having extensively researched owner’s manuals, computer user-group newsletters, and how-to literature, Corn brings a fresh, consumer-oriented approach to the history of technology. User Unfriendly will be valuable to historians of technology, students of American culture, and anyone interested in our modern dependence on machines and gadgets.

Author : Vivian Vande Velde
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Censorship
ISBN : 9780152045609

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Heir Apparent by Vivian Vande Velde Pdf

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Author : Łukasz Bogucki,Mikołaj Deckert
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443844567

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Teaching Translation and Interpreting by Łukasz Bogucki,Mikołaj Deckert Pdf

Translation is a phenomenon that affects us all on a daily basis, the more so now that dissemination of information is greatly enhanced by modern technology. However, there are no strict regulations on who can become a translator and what qualifications are required. The contributors to this volume strive to find out whether translators are taught, self-taught or trained, what the teaching or training programmes are like and how they can be improved. This is a companion volume to Teaching Translation and Interpreting: Challenges and Practices (edited by Łukasz Bogucki, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010). It contains papers delivered at two international conferences devoted to teaching translation and interpreting, organised in Łódź, Poland, as well as invited contributions. The authors are translation and interpreting scholars and teachers from leading Polish and Ukrainian universities.

Author : Sigurd Reimers,Andy Treacher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317799436

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Introducing User-Friendly Family Therapy by Sigurd Reimers,Andy Treacher Pdf

Offers a new approach to family therapy which could alter practice, based on research The "user perspective" is a dominant theme in health management at the moment

Author : Bruce Christianson,Bruno Crispo,James A. Malcom,Michael Roe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540771562

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Security Protocols by Bruce Christianson,Bruno Crispo,James A. Malcom,Michael Roe Pdf

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Security Protocols, held in Cambridge, UK, in April 2005. There are 24 revised full papers presented together with edited transcriptions of some of the discussions following the presentations. Among the topics addressed are authentication, anonymity, cryptographics and biometrics, cryptographic protocols, network security, privacy, SPKI, user-friendliness, and access control.

Author : Qin Gao,Jia Zhou
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 735 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030502492

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Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Healthy and Active Aging by Qin Gao,Jia Zhou Pdf

This three volume set of LNCS 12207, 12208 and 12209 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population, ITAP 2020, held as part of the 22nd International Conference, HCI International 2020, which took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, in July 2020. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The total of 1439 papers and 238 posters have been accepted for publication in the HCII 2020 proceedings from a total of 6326 submissions. ITAP 2020 includes a total of 104 regular papers which are organized in topical sections named: Involving Older Adults in HCI Methodology , User Experience and Aging, Aging and Mobile and Wearable Devices, Health and Rehabilitation Technologies, Well-being, Persuasion, Health Education and Cognitive Support, Aging in Place, Cultural and Entertainment Experiences for Older Adults, Aging and Social Media, Technology Acceptance and Societal Impact.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781428913509

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River Ice Data Instrumentation by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sinda Lopez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2347 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-12
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781136762376

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Routledge German Dictionary of Business, Commerce and Finance Worterbuch Fur Wirtschaft, Handel und Finanzen by Sinda Lopez Pdf

First published in 2002. The German Dictionary of Business, Commerce and Finance is the second dictionary to be published in Routledge’s programme of bilingual business dictionaries. The series was launched in December 1995 with the French Dictionary of Business, Commerce and Finance. It would not have been possible to compile this dictionary within a relatively short timescale, and to the standard achieved, without the use of a highly sophisticated, custom-designed database. The database’s most significant feature is that it is designed as a relational database: term records for each language are held in separate files, with further files consisting only of link records. Links between terms in different language files represent translations, enabling us to handle various types of one-to-many and many-to-one equivalences. Links between terms within a single language file represent crossreferences between geographical variants and abbreviations. The content of the database for this dictionary was created in three principal phases. A considerable proportion of the English term list was already available following the publication of the French Dictionary of Business, Commerce and Finance. The term list was then sent out to specialist translators - with current practical experience of business translation - who supplied German equivalences and expanded the English and German term lists to include the main relevant terminology in their particular spheres of work.

Author : Lianabel Oliver
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004-06-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780471662693

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Designing Strategic Cost Systems by Lianabel Oliver Pdf

Offering a multidisciplinary roadmap for the design, development, and implementation of a strategic cost system, this book shows how to design a cost system to become a more effective decision-making tool and a source of competitive advantage for the organisation. It describes how to structure a cost systems design project and discuss the issues that should be addressed upfront from a management, operations, and costing perspective. Includes a URL site containing key terms and helpful Excel templates. Highlights the logistics of putting together and managing the project team. Addresses the technical and political issues that may arise as the project unfolds.

Author : Allen Kent,James G. Williams
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1996-10-11
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0824727177

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Encyclopedia of Microcomputers by Allen Kent,James G. Williams Pdf

Truth Maintenance Systems to Visual Display Quality

Author : Martin Manser
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-28
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781408123324

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Good Word Guide by Martin Manser Pdf

'In every sense, a good word guide' Times Educational Supplement 'This intelligent guide is an essential addition to the bookshelves of all readers and writers' Good Book Guide Our language is changing faster than ever before. Modern communications are breaking down distinctions between formal and informal English, raising ever more questions as to how to speak and write correctly. This fully updated edition of the bestselling Good Word Guide offers information and advice on spelling, grammar, punctuation, pronunciation, confusables and the latest buzzwords and provides clear, straightforward answers to everyday language problems. This edition contains a new feature: 'Your Turn' sections - new interactive quizzes for the reader to test their own knowledge of grammar, plain English, punctuation, spelling and usage - a perfect resource for language courses. Endorsed by the Plain Language Commission.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NASA:31769000472665

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First Annual High-Speed Research Workshop, Part 3 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sampsa Hyysalo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136953378

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Health Technology Development and Use by Sampsa Hyysalo Pdf

How do development and use of new technology relate? How can users contribute to innovation? This volume is the first to study these questions by following particular technologies over several product launches in detail. It examines the emergence of inventive ideas about future technology and uses, how these are developed into products and embedded in health care practices, and how the form and impact of these technologies then evolves through several rounds of design and deployment across different types of organizations. Examining these processes through three case studies of health care innovations, these studies reveal a blind spot in extant research on development-use relations. The majority of studies have examined shorter ‘episodes’: moments within particular design projects, implementation processes, usability evaluations, and human-machine interactions. Studies with longer time-frames have resorted to a relatively coarse ‘grain-size’ of analysis and hence lost sight of how the interchange is actually done. As a result there are no social science, information systems, or management texts which comprehensively or adequately address: • how different moments, sites and modes of shaping new technology determine the evolution of new technology; • the detailed mechanisms of learning, interaction, and domination between different actors and technology during these drawn out processes; and • the relationship of technology projects and the professional practices and social imaginations that are associated in technology development, evaluation, and usage. The "biographies of technologies and practices" approach to new technology advanced in this volume offers us urgent new insight to core empirical and theoretical questions about how and where development projects gain their representations of future use and users, how usage is actually designed, how users’ requests and modifications affect designs, and what kind of learning takes place between developers and users in different phases of innovation—all crucial to our understanding and ability to advance new health technology, and innovation more generally.