The Trouble with Computers: Usefulness, Usability, and Productivity
- ISBN-10
- 0262621088
- ISBN-13
- 9780262621083
- Category
- Computers
- Pages
- 425
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1995
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Author
- Thomas K. Landauer
Description
Beginning with an explanation of why considerable outlays for computing since 1973 have not resulted in comparable payoffs, the author proposes that emerging techniques for user-centred development can turn the situation around - through task analysis, ite
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