Things That Make Us Smart: Defending Human Attributes in the Age of the Machine
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* A Human-Centered Technology * Experiencing the World * The Power of Representation * Fitting the Artifact to the Person * The Human Mind * Distributed Cognition * A Place for Everything, and Everything in Its Place * Predicting the Future * Soft and Hard Technology * Technology Is Not Neutral
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- Authors
- Robinson, R., & Norman, D.
- Affiliations
- University of California San Diego (US)
- ORCID
- Norman, Donald
- Venue
- Design Issues
- Publisher
- JSTOR
- Published
- 1994
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 77
- ISSN
- 0747-9360 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2028878459
- Cited by
- 1,528
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 43.27
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Design Issues (publishedVersion)
- Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Cybernetics and Technology in Society
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Usability and User Interface Design
- Keywords
- human-centered technology, human qualities, human mind, distributed cognition, representation, technological neutrality, human experience
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