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The ability to use tools is a distinguishing feature of human beings. It represents a complex psychomotor activity which we are only now beginning to understand. Robust theoretical accounts are being developed which allow us to understand better how people use tools and which explain differences in human and animal tool-use from the perspective of cognitive science. Our understanding needs to be based on research into how people use tools, which draws on many disciplines: such as why tool use can fail (drawing particularly on ergonomics) and the neurological areas probably associated with tool use (drawing on neuropsychology). This book considers contemporary tool use in domains such as surgery, and considers future developments in human-computer interfaces, such as haptic virtual reality and tangible user interfaces. It presents a single, coherent account of human tool use as a complex psychomotor activity; it builds on this to explain how people use tools and how this activity can fail; and then goes on to describe the design and development of usable tools.
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Review:
"Whilst sets of guidelines for design of handles etc. are readily available within the ergonomics literature, Baber summarizes much of this material succinctly and usefully within the book. In sum, this is a useful, interesting, and entertaining read that draws upon a wide literature to embed an analysis of an ancient ... human activity within a theoretical framework. [I]t is a refreshing to review a book that has such wide appeal and relevance. It is easy to imagine the book being useful to development psychologists, archaeologists, or ethologists almost as much as to ergonomists." - Ergonomics, Vol. 48, No. 4, March 2005
About the Author:
Christopher Baber is Lecturer in Ergonomics at the University of Birmingham, UK.
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- PublisherCRC Press
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0415277299
- ISBN 13 9780415277297
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages300
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