All too human : understanding and improving our relationships with technology /
"Why do people fear air travel, but text while driving? How were the travesties at the Abu Ghraib prison like a nuclear meltdown? What is the best way to throw a rocket at a robot? These are just a few questions addressed by the field of human factors psychology. These scientists use knowledge...
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Cambridge University Press,
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Publisher Address: | Cambridge, United Kingdom : |
Publication Dates: | 2022. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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"Why do people fear air travel, but text while driving? How were the travesties at the Abu Ghraib prison like a nuclear meltdown? What is the best way to throw a rocket at a robot? These are just a few questions addressed by the field of human factors psychology. These scientists use knowledge of how people think and why they act to improve the design of our world. In All Too Human, Dr. Anne McLaughlin introduces the field with vivid and topical stories that hinge on cognitive processes such as attention, memory, and decision-making. From the COVID-19 pandemic, to abandoned SCUBA divers, conspiracy theories, and the travails of online dating, McLaughlin draws on a century of research into the human mind to explain our past and predict our future"-- |
Carrier Form: | xiv, 195 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [186]-188) and index. |
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9781316515600 1316515605 9781009012546 1009012541 |
Index Number: | T14 |
CLC: | T-05 |
Call Number: | T-05/M161 |
Contents: | "Brace for impact" -- Bad water -- Hybrid vigor -- A mind divided -- All the light we cannot see -- Mistakes : we've made a few -- History repeating? -- Needles in haystacks -- Apt pupils and alien invaders -- A relative to truth -- Old principles for new worlds. |