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