About this title: 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. Today, three quarters of all advanced technology implementations in manufacturing fail to achieve their performance goals because of inadequate usability. By viewing the human being as a mechanistic system ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 1992-09-24
ISBN-13:9780195075106ISBN:0195075102
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 1992-09-24
ISBN-13:9780195075106ISBN:0195075102
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: OXFORD UNIV PR
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780195075106ISBN:0195075102
Description: New. This book addresses issues of how automated systems can be designed to enhance the ways that people use them. The comprehensive range of worker abilities, training, and worker input are emphasized. read more
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