Pleasure With Products: Beyond Usability

by Patrick W. Jordan and W.S. Green

The role of human factors in product design has, in the past, pertained almost exclusively to product usability, but increased recognition is being given to "pleasure-based" human factors. This emphasizes the holistic nature of the experience of person-product interaction. While traditional approaches tended to characterize the user in terms of physical or cognitive processing capabilities, new human factors approaches are concerned with wider lifestyle...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415237041
• ISBN13: 9780415237048
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 398 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"