Designing for Life: A Human Perspective on Technology Development - Hardcover

Saariluoma, Pertti; Cañas, José J.; Leikas, Jaana

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ISBN 10: 1137530464 ISBN 13: 9781137530462

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

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Throughout the chapters, the authors take readers through the various uses of technology. They discuss archifact analysis, usability and cognitive engineering, as well as motivation and emotion in user interface design. The book also crucially introduces a new, holistic approach to designing human-technology interaction.

The book is suitable for researchers, postgraduate and undergraduate students of cognitive and social psychology as well as all those who are interested in technological design and its societal impact.

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Pertti Saariluoma is Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. 

José J. Cañas is Professor at The Brain, Mind and Behavior Research Center of the University of Granada, Spain. 

Jaana Leikas is Principal Scientist at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Adjunct Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. 

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This book reviews the history of technology and suggests how it will continue to develop in relation to human use. Technology and humans are bound together inextricably as more of our daily life, and even emotions, are influenced by objects which in turn are designed to reflect nature.

Throughout the chapters, the authors take readers through the various uses of technology. They discuss archifact analysis, usability and cognitive engineering, as well as motivation and emotion in user interface design. The book also crucially introduces a new, holistic approach to designing human-technology interaction.

The book is suitable for researchers, postgraduate and undergraduate students of cognitive and social psychology as well as all those who are interested in technological design and its societal impact.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1137530464
• ISBN 13: 9781137530462
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 284
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