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Title: Leonardo's Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies by Ben Shneiderman ISBN: 0-262-69299-6 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.78 (9 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: A Reviewer You Can Trust Dislikes This Book
Comment: I am running three small internet and software interface venture businesses and avidly read anything anywhere that will in any way help me do a better job. If you put the word "interface" in your work, I will buy it just on the chance it will help me. My businesses are having all sorts of real problems with suppliers and customers and interfaces. We need help. So in that context I bought this book.
In about an hour it became apparent that this author has stopped thinking many years ago and now is famous enough to just sprinkle power cuties over his audiences instead of doing real work. I became more and more insulted by this author and his editor and publisher. It is one thing to dress up a title and table of contents wording to slant something falsely so it will look like something else and sell well--nearly all editors and publishers do this. However, it is something else to take casual ramblings and rantings of an old man who has not seen a trench much less been in one for a decade or more, it appears. and publish them just because marketing can get enough suckers to pull in some money for retirment.
This book is merely written to make money for its publisher and author and has no sincere intent to enlighten anyone about anything, as far as I can see. Nothing in it pertains to computer interface work in any serious sense. Each chapter expresses rage at some terrible aspect of current software. Rage is something I understand but I have it already and do not need more of it. I need solutions and ideas, preferably with experimental data backing some of them up. This book is just rage and out of date rage at that. I am sorry because this author ten years ago was a true pioneer and his early academic papers helped me a lot. It is sad to see commercial success ruin a good mind.
Rating: 5
Summary: An Outstanding book on Human Beings and Computers
Comment: Ben Shneiderman has written a wonderful book about computers and what human beings should expect to be able to use them for. He talks about "user centered" computer and how everyone should be able to use computers to do a better job. By everyone he means everyone, no matter who you are, disabled or not.
He goes into great detail about how the computer should be used and how it should be built to suit the user, not the user changing to suit the way the computer is built.
This is the way it should and must be. People should not serve computers, computers should serve the needs of the human population no matter who 0r where they are. He includes a great list of references and his examples of how the new computing should work are outstanding.
He makes his case well with detailed examples and commentaries on the subject. This books is a must buy for all of us!
Rating: 4
Summary: Easy to read, yet thoughtful
Comment: Leonardo's laptop is not a human factors book per se, but rather a collection of thoughts on the future of our society, and on how technology could be used for the good of all. The writing style is very accessible and the point of views, illustrated by examples of everyday life activities, are definitely engaged and very optimistic.
I had the chance of meeting the author during a presentation of Leonardo's Laptop: the book itself is true to Ben Schneiderman's distinctive friendly and dynamic style as he describes the world he hopes can be ours tomorrow.
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Title: Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do by B. J. Fogg ISBN: 1558606432 Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Pub. Date: December, 2002 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Emotional Design: Why We Love (Or Hate) Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman ISBN: 0465051359 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 23 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: The Laws of the Web: Patterns in the Ecology of Information by Bernardo A. Huberman ISBN: 0262582252 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Social Life of Information by John Seely Brown, Paul Duguid ISBN: 1578517087 Publisher: Harvard Business School Press Pub. Date: 15 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System by Siva Vaidhyanathan ISBN: 0465089844 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 04 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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