All Too Human: Understanding and Improving our Relationships with Technology

ISBN-13: 9781009012546 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 250 str.

Anne McLaughlin (North Carolina State University)

Opis

Why do people fear air travel, but text while driving? How were the travesties at the Abu Ghraib prison like a nuclear meltdown? What is the best way to throw a rocket at a robot? These are just a few questions addressed by the field of human factors psychology. These scientists use knowledge of how people think and why they act to improve the design of our world. In All Too Human, Dr. Anne McLaughlin introduces the field with vivid and topical stories that hinge on cognitive processes such as attention, memory, and decision-making. From the COVID-19 pandemic, to abandoned SCUBA divers, conspiracy theories, and the travails of online dating, McLaughlin draws on a century of research into the human mind to explain our past and predict our future.

Recenzje

'Psychologist Anne McLaughlin's new book, All Too Human, is a wonderful read – a fascinating tour of the capacity and limits of our minds and bodies. With vivid and compelling examples, McLaughlin shows how rigorous human factors research and design can help us more safely navigate a complex world - whether we're using a dating site, landing a jet airliner on the Hudson River, or surviving a pandemic.' Cat Warren, author of the NY Times bestseller What the Dog Knows

Spis treści

1. 'Brace for impact'; 2. Bad water; 3. Hybrid vigor; 4. A mind divided; 5. All the light we cannot see; 6. Mistakes: We've made a few; 7. History repeating?; 8. Needles in haystacks; 9. Apt pupils and alien invaders; 10. A relative to truth; 11. Old principles for new worlds; References; index.