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The Man Who Lied to His Laptop: What Machines Teach Us About Human Relationships
The Man Who Lied to His Laptop What Machines Teach Us About Human Relationships
Author: Clifford Nass, Corina Yen
Counterintuitive insights about building successful relationships-based on research into human-computer interaction. — The driver was insistent: "A woman should not be giving directions." Despite the customer service rep's reassurance that the navigation system in his car wasn't actually a woman -- just a computer with a...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781617230011
ISBN-10: 1617230014
Publication Date: 9/2/2010
Pages: 224
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Publisher: Current Hardcover
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Audio CD
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Basically, people interact with machines in ways that mirror the ways that they would interact with other people. I was hoping for a book about UI design, but this book is really a standard psychology book, only all of the experiments are performed using machines as the researchers' secret conspirator rather than using a human.
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