User unfriendly :
Corn, Joseph J.
User unfriendly : consumer struggles with personal technologies, from clocks and sewing machines to cars and computers / Joseph J. Corn. - 1 online resource (295 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-264) and index.
Our marvelous and maddening machines -- The advent of technology consumption -- Buying an automobile -- Running a car -- Tools, tinkering, and trouble -- Reading the owner's manual -- Computers and the tyranny of technology consumption -- The technology treadmill -- Acknowledgments.
9781421401935 (ebook)
Consumer satisfaction.
Human-computer interaction.
Human-machine systems--Social aspects.
Technological innovations--United States.
Electronic books.
T173.8 / .C685 2011eb
303.48/30973
User unfriendly : consumer struggles with personal technologies, from clocks and sewing machines to cars and computers / Joseph J. Corn. - 1 online resource (295 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-264) and index.
Our marvelous and maddening machines -- The advent of technology consumption -- Buying an automobile -- Running a car -- Tools, tinkering, and trouble -- Reading the owner's manual -- Computers and the tyranny of technology consumption -- The technology treadmill -- Acknowledgments.
9781421401935 (ebook)
Consumer satisfaction.
Human-computer interaction.
Human-machine systems--Social aspects.
Technological innovations--United States.
Electronic books.
T173.8 / .C685 2011eb
303.48/30973