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User-Centered Technology
- A Rhetorical Theory for Computers and Other Mundane Artifacts
Engelsk Paperback
User-Centered Technology
- A Rhetorical Theory for Computers and Other Mundane Artifacts
Engelsk Paperback

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Presents a theoretical model for examining technology through a user perspective.

Winner of the 1999 Best Book presented by the National Council of Teachers of English NCTE Awards 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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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
195
ISBN-13:
9780791439326
Indbinding:
Paperback
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ISBN-10:
0791439321
Udg. Dato:
5 nov 1998
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Forlag:
State University of New York Press
Oplagsdato:
5 nov 1998
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