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User-Centered Technology (Suny Series, Studies in Scientific & Technical Communication): A Rhetorical Theory for Computers and Other Mundane Artifacts ... in Scientific and Technical Communication) - Softcover

Johnson, Robert R.

 
9780791439326: User-Centered Technology (Suny Series, Studies in Scientific & Technical Communication): A Rhetorical Theory for Computers and Other Mundane Artifacts ... in Scientific and Technical Communication)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0791439321 ISBN 13: 9780791439326
Verlag: State University of New York Press, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

Awarded "1998 Best Book" by the National Council of Teachers of English for Excellence in Technical and Scientific Communication. User-Centered Technology presents a theoretical model for examining technology through a user perspective. Johnson begins with a historical overview of the problem of technological use from the ancient Greeks to the present day - a problem seen most clearly in historical discussions of rhetoric theory. The central portion of the book elaborates on user-centered theory by defining three focal issues of the theory: user knowledge, human-technology interaction, and technological determinism. Working from an interdisciplinary perspective, Johnson uses rhetoric theory to present a definition of user knowledge; human factors engineering to illuminate the ideological presuppositions built into technology design; and history, philosophy, and sociology to explain technological determinism, possibly the greatest impediment to user-centered technology development in modern times. The latter part of the book applies user-centered theory in two contexts: the nonacademic sphere, where the writing and design of computer user documentation is discussed, and the academic sphere, through a discussion of how user-centered concepts might drive university technical communication and composition curricula.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Robert R. Johnson is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Master's Program in Technical and Scientific Communication at Miami University.

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Verlag
State University of New York Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0791439321
ISBN 13 
9780791439326
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
216
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