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Anne McLaughlin - All Too Human, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

All Too Human

Understanding and Improving our Relationships with Technology

Av Anne McLaughlin

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Why do people fear air travel, but text while driving? How were the travesties at the Abu Ghraib prison like a nuclear meltdown? What is the best way to throw a rocket at a robot? These are just a few questions addressed by the field of human factors psychology. These scientists use knowledge of how people think and why they act to improve the design of our world. In All Too Human, Dr. Anne McLaughlin introduces the field with vivid and topical stories that hinge on cognitive processes such as attention, memory, and decision-making. From the COVID-19 pandemic, to abandoned SCUBA divers, conspiracy theories, and the travails of online dating, McLaughlin draws on a century of research into the human mind to explain our past and predict our future.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2022-02-17
  • Mått: 158 x 235 x 18 mm
  • Vikt: 461 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 210
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9781316515600
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Anne McLaughlin is Professor of Psychology at North Carolina State University, USA. She has worked as an educator and researcher in the field of human factors psychology and directs cutting-edge research on human behavior and cognition with research projects funded by NASA, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Science Foundation.

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'A fantastic and approachable journey to understand the capability and limitations of the human brain and what we can do about it to improve technology and our world in general. McLaughlin offers the reader relatable true stories, helping us understand why catastrophes like Chernobyl or a miraculous emergency plane landing on the Hudson can happen. The common denominator is human limitations and errors. We can either pretend we are error-proof or accept that humans are fallible. The latter allows us to adequately design and engineer solutions to prevent errors from being fatal and build a safer and more equitable society. This book is a must-read for anyone wanting to understand why we can forget very important things, or struggle to use a piece of technology.' Celia Hodent, Ph.D. in psychology, UX strategist, author of The Gamer's Brain, The Psychology of Video Games, and What UX is Really About

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