TAMING HAL: Designing Human Interfaces Beyond 2001
By Asaf Degani
Palgrave (NYP)

Can’t program your VCR? Frustrated by all the options on your cell phone? Ready to kick your computer? Maybe you can live with these "user interface" annoyances, but what happens when your 747 pilot can’t figure out the autopilot interface? That’s exactly what really caused the crash of KAL 007. And that’s exactly the kind of "accident" happening with ever increasing frequency in hospital operating rooms, aircraft cockpits, high-tech factories, and in every setting where humans interact with computers.

In TAMING HAL, leading NASA scientist Asaf Degani explains in crystal-clear language exactly why interfaces between people and machines all to often don’t work and what needs to be done to put humans back in control. Elegantly written, this is a book that will appeal to fans of writers such as Henry Petroski, Don Norman, and Nicholas Negroponte. Degani does for human/machine interface design what Edward Tufte does for visual design. Because it is a ground-breaking book that could literally revolutionize the way we think about human/machine interactions, TAMING HAL will be a must-read for everyone working in high-tech industries – from software engineers and marketing executives to lawyers – as well as for readers of publications such as Scientific American, Wired, Fast Company and the New York Times’ Tuesday Science Section.

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