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Leonardo's Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies.(Book Reviews)
Technical Communication, May, 2004 by Price, Jonathan
Leonardo's Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies
Ben Shneiderman, 2002. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, [ISBN 0-262-19476-7, 269 pages, including index, $24.95 USD.]
Ben Shneiderman sees Leonardo da Vinci's ubiquitous notebooks, full of sketches, hypotheses, and inventions, as models for a new, more humane form of computing--one that is more creative, sociable, and universally usable. Imagining how Leonardo might build a laptop computer, Shneiderman pleads for a renaissance in the way we build and document technology. He paints a practical utopia.
Building on more than a quarter century of research, teaching, and consulting on human-computer interaction, this book rises above the details of usability research, interface guidelines,...
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