About this title:What links the frustrations of daily life, like VCR clocks and voicemail systems, to airplane crashes and a staggering “hidden epidemic” of medical error?
Kim Vicente is a professor of human factors engineering at the University of Toronto and a consultant to NASA, Microsoft, Nortel Networks and many other organizations; he might also be described as a “technological anthropologist.” He spends his time in emergency rooms, airplane cockpits and nuclear power station control rooms -- as well as in kitchens, garages and bathrooms -- observing how people ...
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Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. A few pages show some highlighting. No creasing to spine. Tight binding. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 368 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: First Thus
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Random House Inc, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780676974904ISBN:0676974902
Description: Fine. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. read more
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