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Turn signals are the facial expressions of automobiles

Title
Turn signals are the facial expressions of automobiles / Donald A. Norman.
Author
Norman, Donald A.
Publication
Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, ©1992.

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Description
xiv, 205 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
Calls attention to the dangers of letting the needs of the machine take precedence over human needs.
Subject
  • Technology > Social aspects
  • Industrial design > Social aspects
  • Alltag
  • Kognitive Psychologie
  • Technologie
  • Ontwerpen
  • Mens-machine-systemen
  • Cognitie
  • Technologie
  • Technology
Note
  • "A William Patrick book."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-197) and index.
Contents
I go to a sixth grade play -- Design follies -- The home magazine kitchen -- Refrigerator doors and message centers -- High-technology gadgets -- The teddy -- How long is noon? -- Real time -- Nature's packaging -- Evolution versus design -- Turn signals are the facial expressions of automobiles -- Book jackets and science -- Brain power -- Hofstadter's law -- One chance in a million -- Coffee cups in the cockpit -- Writing as design, design as writing.
ISBN
  • 0201581248
  • 9780201581249
  • 020162236X
  • 9780201622362
LCCN
91038762
OCLC
  • ocm24671087
  • 24671087
  • SCSB-1948354
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library