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Human Computer Interaction
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Whether we’re communicating with a human or a machine, the goal is to create a shared understanding of the world. That’s the point behind both the rules governing polite conversation and how a user-friendly machine should work.
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― User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play
― User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play
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If we use, to achieve our purposes, a mechanical agency with whose operation we cannot efficiently interfere once we have started it, because the action is so fast and irrevocable that we have not the data to intervene before the action is complete, then we had better be quite sure that the purpose put into the machine is the purpose which we really desire and not merely a colorful imitation of it.
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