The trouble with computers : usefulness, usability, and productivity / Thomas K. Landauer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Landauer, Thomas K., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computers.

Technological innovations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 425 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

MIT Press CogNet.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [1995]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Landauer estimates that the application of these methods would make computers have the same enormous impact on productivity and standard of living that were the historical results of technological advances in energy use (the steam engine, electric motors), automation in textiles and other manufacture, and in agriculture. He presents solid evidence for this claim, and for a huge benefit-to-cost ratio for user-centered design activities backed by descriptions of how to do these necessary things, of promising applications for better computer software designs in business, and of the relation of user-centered design to business process reengineering, quality, and management.

Notes:

"A Bradford book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-405) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Landauer, Thomas K. Trouble with computers.

ISBN:

9780262277891

0262277891

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.