Abstract
The intention of this book is to help you think about design from a user-centered perspective. Our aim is to help you understand what questions to ask when designing a technology or a system or when you are evaluating a design that already exists. We focus on physiological, cognitive, and social aspects of the human user, aspects that will affect how someone will use what you design. This chapter introduces some historical background to the field of User Centered System Design, and introduces current themes.
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- Industrial Process Control
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- Cognitive Ergonomic
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We note that the language at the time used the word man to include both genders, a practice that, appropriately, is no longer acceptable.
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Ritter, F.E., Baxter, G.D., Churchill, E.F. (2014). User-Centered Systems Design: A Brief History. In: Foundations for Designing User-Centered Systems. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5134-0_2
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