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Designing for Humans

Professor Harold Thimbleby · Gresham College

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About

Previous lectures looked at the inside of gadgets, but this is less than half the story. When we use complex systems we often fall into traps; we acquire beliefs about what is achievable and act on them. Often we don’t know we have these beliefs, and are at the mercy of the system’s design. Whatever our beliefs about what we should do, we may act otherwise; e.g. walking away from a ticket machine taking the tickets but leaving the change.

The talk

  1. Designing for Humans 2003-02-13 · YouTube

Credits and licence

Institution
Gresham College
Speaker
Professor Harold Thimbleby
Year
2003
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Mathematics, Computer science
Source
Gresham College
Licence
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