Interacting with Information
Ann Blandford
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We live in an information age, but information is only useful when it is interpreted by people and applied in the context of their goals and activities. The volume of information to which people have access is growing at an incredible rate, vastly outstripping people's ability to assimilate and manage it. In order to design technologies that better support information work, it is necessary to better understand the details of that work. In this lecture, we review the situations (physical, social and temporal) in which people interact with information. We also discuss how people interact with ... Read more
We live in an information age, but information is only useful when it is interpreted by people and applied in the context of their goals and activities. The volume of information to which people have access is growing at an incredible rate, vastly outstripping people's ability to assimilate and manage it. In order to design technologies that better support information work, it is necessary to better understand the details of that work. In this lecture, we review the situations (physical, social and temporal) in which people interact with information. We also discuss how people interact with ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Series
Synthesis Lectures on Human-Centered Informatics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
99
Place of Publication
San Rafael, United States
ISBN
9781608450268
SKU
V9781608450268
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99-1
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