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Humane Interfaces: Questions of Method and Practice in Cognitive Technology Volume 13
Contributor(s): Marsh, J. P. (Editor), Gorayska, B. (Editor), Mey, J. L. (Editor)
ISBN: 0444828745     ISBN-13: 9780444828743
Publisher: North-Holland
OUR PRICE:   $162.36  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: April 1999
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Annotation: Ever since the first successful International Cognitive Technology (CT) Conference in Hong Kong in August 1995, a growing concern about the dehumanising potential of machines, and the machining potential of the human mind, has pervaded the organisers' thinking. When setting up the agenda for the Second International CT Conference in Aizu, Japan, in August of 1997, they were aware that a number of new approaches had seen the light, but that the need to integrate them within a human framework had become more urgent than ever, due to the accelerating pace of technological and commercialised developments in the computer related fields of industry and research


What the present book does is re-emphasize the importance of the 'human factor' - not as something that we should 'also' take into account, when doing technology, but as the primary driving force and supreme aim of our technological endeavours. Machining the human should not happen, but humanising the machine should. La Humacha should replace the Hemachine in our thinking about these matters.
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BISAC Categories:
- Computers | Interactive & Multimedia
- Psychology | Experimental Psychology
- Computers | Enterprise Applications - Business Intelligence Tools
Dewey: 004.019
LCCN: 99019385
Series: Human Factors in Information Technology
Physical Information: 0.94" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.64 lbs) 391 pages
 
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Ever since the first successful International Cognitive Technology (CT) Conference in Hong Kong in August 1995, a growing concern about the dehumanising potential of machines, and the machining potential of the human mind, has pervaded the organisers' thinking. When setting up the agenda for the Second International CT Conference in Aizu, Japan, in August of 1997, they were aware that a number of new approaches had seen the light, but that the need to integrate them within a human framework had become more urgent than ever, due to the accelerating pace of technological and commercialised developments in the computer related fields of industry and research


What the present book does is re-emphasize the importance of the 'human factor' - not as something that we should 'also' take into account, when doing technology, but as the primary driving force and supreme aim of our technological endeavours. Machining the human should not happen, but humanising the machine should. La Humacha should replace the Hemachine in our thinking about these matters.