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User-centered technology : a rhetorical theory for computers and other mundane artifacts / Robert R. Johnson.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY series, Studies in scientific and technical communicationPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, �1998.Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 195 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 058507867X
  • 9780585078670
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: User-centered technology.DDC classification:
  • 808/.0666 21
LOC classification:
  • QA76.9.U83 J64 1998eb
Online resources:
Contents:
List of figures -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. Situating technology ; 1. Users, technology, and the complex(ity) of the mundane: Some "out of the ordinary" thoughts ; 2. Refiguring the end of technology: Rhetoric and the complex of use -- Part II. Complicating technology ; 3. Not just for idiots anymore: Practice, production, and users' ways of knowing ; 4. Human factors and the tech(no)logical: Putting user-centered design into perspective ; 5. Sociology, history, and philosophy: Technological determinism along the disciplinary divides -- Part III. Communicating technology ; 6. When all else fails, use the instructions: Local knowledge, negotiation, and the construction of user-centered computer documentation ; 7. Technical communication, ethics, curricula: User-centered studies and the technical rhetorician -- References -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-187) and index.

List of figures -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. Situating technology ; 1. Users, technology, and the complex(ity) of the mundane: Some "out of the ordinary" thoughts ; 2. Refiguring the end of technology: Rhetoric and the complex of use -- Part II. Complicating technology ; 3. Not just for idiots anymore: Practice, production, and users' ways of knowing ; 4. Human factors and the tech(no)logical: Putting user-centered design into perspective ; 5. Sociology, history, and philosophy: Technological determinism along the disciplinary divides -- Part III. Communicating technology ; 6. When all else fails, use the instructions: Local knowledge, negotiation, and the construction of user-centered computer documentation ; 7. Technical communication, ethics, curricula: User-centered studies and the technical rhetorician -- References -- Index.

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