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Guy Boy - Orchestrating Human-Centered Design - 9781447143383 - V9781447143383
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Orchestrating Human-Centered Design

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Description for Orchestrating Human-Centered Design Hardcover. This book presents an Orchestra model that attempts to articulate technology, organizations and people. It examines technological and philosophical concepts that managers, technicians and all those interested in the design of artifacts need to consider. Num Pages: 212 pages, 1 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: TBDG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 161 x 18. Weight in Grams: 498.

The time has come to move into a more humanistic approach of technology and to understand where our world is moving to in the early twenty-first century. The design and development of our future products needs to be orchestrated, whether they be conceptual, technical or organizational. Orchestrating Human-Centered Design presents an Orchestra model that attempts to articulate technology, organizations and people. Human-centered design (HCD) should not be limited to local/short-term/linear engineering, but actively focus on global/long-term/non-linear design, and constantly identify emergent properties from the use of artifacts.

Orchestrating Human-Centered Design results from incremental syntheses of courses the author has given at ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer London Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
233
Condition
New
Number of Pages
212
Place of Publication
England, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781447143383
SKU
V9781447143383
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Guy Boy
Dr. Guy André Boy is a University Professor at Florida Institute of Technology (FIT) where he is also the Director of the Human-Centered Design Institute (HCDi), Chief Scientist for Human-Centered Design at NASA Kennedy Space Center, Senior Research Scientist of the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC). Fellow of the Air and Space Academy, Former President and CEO ... Read more

Reviews for Orchestrating Human-Centered Design
“For academics who deal with humans in systems concerns, the book is rich in references and theory of design processes. … this book is also targeted at corporate chief technology officers, program chief engineers, and systems engineering managers … . For INCOSE members, the book should be required reading for the Human Systems Working Group. It will also be of ... Read more

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