We Are Not Users
Dialogues, Diversity, and Design
- Paperback
200 pages
- Release Date
29 October 2024
Summary
We live in a material world of designed artifacts, both digital and analog. We think of ourselves as users; the platforms, devices, or objects provide a service that we can use. But is this really the case? We Are Not Users argues that people cannot be reduced to the entity called “user”; we are not homogenous but diverse. That buzz of dissonance that we hear reflects the difficulty of condensing our diversity into “one size fits all.”
This book proposes that a new understand…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262553322 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262553325 |
| Author: | Eswaran Subrahmanian, Yoram Reich, Sruthi Krishnan |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 200 |
| Release Date: | 29 October 2024 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
Eswaran Subrahmanian
Eswaran Subrahmanian is Research Professor at the Engineering Research Accelerator and Engineering and Public Policy Department at Carnegie Mellon University and is a cofounder of Fields of View, a not-for-profit research organization that designs games and simulations for real-world social problems.
Yoram Reich is Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering and cofounder and head of the Systems Engineering Research Initiative at Tel Aviv University.
Sruthi Krishnan is a writer and cofounder of Fields of View.
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