In The Human Factor, Kim Vicente coined the term 'Human-tech' to
describe a more encompassing and ambitious approach to the study of
Human-Technology Interaction (HTI) than is now evident in any of
its participating disciplines, such as human factors,
human-computer interaction, cognitive science and engineering,
industrial design, informatics or applied psychology. Observing
that the way forward is 'not by widgets alone,' Vicente's
Human-tech approach addresses every level-physical, psychological,
team, organizational, and political-at which technology impacts
quality of life, identifies a human or societal need, and then
tailors technology to what we know about human nature at that
level. The Human Factor was written for a broad audience, in part
to educate general readers beyond the HTI community about the need
to think seriously about the tremendous impact that poorly designed
technology can have, ranging from user frustration to the tragic
loss of human life. The articles collected in this book provide
much of the technical material behind the work that was presented
in The Human Factor, and the commentaries by Alex Kirlik situate
these articles in their broader historical, scientific and ethical
context. This collection of articles and commentaries forms a set
of recommendations for how HTI research ought to broaden both its
perspective and its practical, even ethical, aspirations to meet
the increasingly complicated challenges of designing technology to
support human work, to improve quality of life, and to design the
way will live with technology. As the first book both to integrate
the theory and research underlying Human-tech, and to clearly
delineate the scientific challenges and ethical responsibilities
that await those who either design technology for human use, or
design technology that influences or even structures the working or
daily lives of others, Human-tech: Ethical and Scientific
Foundations will appeal to the broad range of students and scholars
in all of the HTI disciplines.
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