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The Design of Future Things

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by Don Norman


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  Index

  Accelerando (Stross), 25–26

  Adaptive cruise control, 114–115

  Adaptive House project, 119–123

  Affordances, 66–69, 71–72

  AI. See Artificial intelligence

  Airplanes/airports

  baggage handling, 131–132

  natural warning signals, artificial reintroduction of, 150

  safety, 77–78

  stopping points on throttles, 65

  Alarms, 141

  Anthropomorphism, 47

  Apple Computer, the Newton, 142–146

  Appliances. See Homes

  Archiver, conversations with. See Machine’s point of view, the

  Artificial intelligence (AI), 39–40

  Asimov, Isaac, 188–189

  Augmentation of human intelligence, 34, 123–134

  Automagical approach, 38

  Automation

  augmentative technology as the future of design, 34, 133–134

  autonomous or augmentative, 130–133

  concerns/dangers raised by, 96–99, 114–115

  on a factory floor, impact of, 132–133

  inappropriate, the problem of, 113–116

  responsive, 86–90

  sensible, overautomation and, 105–108

  swarming and platooning of automobiles, 108–113

  trade-offs of, 117–118

  See also Intelligent machines; Technology

  Automobiles

  adaptive cruise control, 10–14, 114–115

  automation in, 96–99, 105–108, 115–116

  car+driver as symbiotic system, 44–47

  communication with car vs. wife, comparison of, 1–2

  fictional account of technological nightmare in, 91–92

  Intelligent Vehicles, 157

  loose- and tight-rein control of, distinction between, 72

  monitoring of the driver by, 36–37

  natural interaction in, example of, 19–20

  natural signals monitored by, 24

  natural warning signals, artificial reintroduction of, 150–151

  navigation system, lack of communication with, 2–4, 6–8

  reverse risk compensation principles applied to, 82–85

  sounds in and around, 61, 63–64

  swarming and platooning of, 108–113

  Aware Home, 128

  Benchmarking and best practices, 54

  Bicycles of Delft, 74–77

  Blade Runner, 25

  Blind people, silent automobiles and, 64

  Books, Plato’s critique of, 5–6

  Brain, the, 40–43

  Brown, John Seely, 148–149

  Calm technology, 148–149

  Castlefranchi, Cristiano, 62

  Clark, Herbert, 49–50

  Cobot (Collaborative Robot), 86–89

  Colgate, Ed, 86

  Comfort noise, 63

  Common ground, lack of in human-machine interaction, 49–55, 77

  CommonSense, 29–30

  Communication

  autonomous intelligent devices, between people and, 69–74


  with car vs. wife, comparison of, 1–2

  common ground in, 49–55

  feedback, need for, 146–147. See also Feedback

  horse and rider, between. See Horseback riding

  implicit, 62

  from a machine’s point of view, 183–187

  with mechanical and electronic devices, differences in, 135–136

  as natural interaction, 149–151. See also Natural interaction

  rules of interaction applicable to, 151–153

  signaling distinguished from, 57

  See also People and machines; Signaling; Sounds

  Conferences, 28, 99–104

  Copiers, 74

  Delft, bicycles of, 74–77

  Denver airport, 131–132

  Design

  affordances in, 67–69, 71–72

  augmentative technology as the future of, 133–134

  definition of, 171

  predictability as a rule for, 75–77

  rules of interaction between people and machines, 151–153, 193

  rules of interaction between people and machines, a machine’s perspective on, 189–192

  the science of, 171–175

  Shared Space, 79–80

  Design of Everyday Things, The (Norman), 67, 142, 149, 156

  Dick, Philip K., 31

  Doonesbury (Trudeau), 144

  Duval Guillaume Antwerp, 170

  Education, robots assisting in, 163

  Elderly, restructuring homes and buildings to accommodate the, 170–171

  Elliott, M. A., 81

  Emotional Design (Norman), 43

  Emotions, built into machines, 43–47

  Ethnographic research, 124–125

  Evolution

  a machine’s point of view of, 179–183

  of people and machines, comparison between, 41–42

  Exoskeletons, 88–89

  Factories, the impact of automation on, 132–133

  Fax machines, 52

  Federation for the Blind, 64

  Feedback

  the Apple Newton’s failure to provide, 142–147

  example of failure to allow for, 136–138

  a machine’s perspective on, 186–187

  need for effective, 138–142

  rules of interaction applicable to, 151–153

  through natural

  interaction/implicit signaling, 147–151. See also

  Natural interaction

  Flemisch, Frank, 70

  Ford, Henry, 188–189

  Georgia Institute of Technology, 128, 130

  German Aerospace Center, Institute for Transportation Systems, 22

  Gibson, J. J., 67–68

  Graffiti, 146

  Handshaking, 51–52

  Handwriting recognition, 143–145

  Hill, Will, 66

  History

  of intelligent machines, 38–40

  from a machine’s point of view, 179–183

  Hollan, Jim, 66

  Homeostasis, 79

  Homes

  appliances/devices in, 14–17, 25–26, 29–30, 61, 139–140, 149

  augmenting human intelligence by, 123–130

  multiple signals in, potential danger of, 58

  robots in, 161–165

  showers in, 65

  smart, 23–25, 28–31, 119–123

  Horse and carriage, driving a, 71

  Horseback riding, 19, 21–22, 44–46, 70–71

  Huxley, Aldous, 188

  IBM, Almaden Research Laboratories, 136–137

  Implicit communication, 62, 147

  Informate, 133

  Institut für Verkehrsführung und Fahr, 70

  Intelligent machines

  artificial intelligence, developing a science of, 39–40

  autonomous or augmentative?, 34, 130–133

  autonomous or semiautonomous, descriptions of, 35–37

  communicating with people, 69–74. See also

  Communication; Natural

  interaction; People and

  machines; Signaling

  everyday people interacting

  with, 37–38

  of the future, 155–160

  history of, 38–40

  implicit communication in the design of, 62

  intelligence of in the mind of the designer, 13

  predictability as a requirement of, 75–77

  strengths and limitations of, 8–9, 25–32, 103–104

  See also Automation; Homes; Machines; Technology

  Intelligent Vehicles, 157

  Iowa State University, Virtual

  Reality Applications

  Center, 175

  Kaufman, C., 183

  Kennedy, J. V., 81

  Kettles

  musical whistles on, 65

  whistles as signals on, 56, 60

  KitchenSense, 29–30

  Knobs as implicit communication, 65

  Licklider, J. C. R., 17–18, 22

  Lights, as a feedback mechanism, 140

  London, keeping track of cars entering downtown, 32

  “Loop,” in or out of the, 113–115

  Machine+person entities

  bicycle+person, 75–76

  Cobots, 86–88

  communication with/within, 69–74

  exoskeletons, 88–89

  Segway Personal Transporters, 89–90

  See also Symbiotic relationships

  Machines

  automobiles. See Automobiles

  building emotional states into, 43–47

  common ground in communication between, 51–52

  communication with. See Communication

  conforming to our, 168–171

  the danger when they are too comfortable, 85

  homes and appliances. See Homes

  “intelligent” or “smart.” See Intelligent machines

  and people, comparisons to and relations with. See People and machines

  responsive automation in, 86–90

  robots, 160–165

  socialization of, need for, 9

  Machine’s point of view, the, 177–178

  communication with people, machine discussion of the rules for, 187–189

  communication with people, rules for, 183–187, 193

  history from, 179–183

  on the rules for human designers, 189–192

  Maes, Pattie, 155

  McCandless, Tim, 66

  McColl, V. A., 81

  McLean, Paul, 42

  Microsoft Research group, 123–124, 126–127, 129–130

  Miller, Christopher, 73

  Mini Cooper automobile, 31

  “Minority Report” (Dick), 31

  Minority Report (Spielberg), 31

  MIT Media Lab, 29

  Monderman, Hans, 78–79

  Mozer, Mike, 119–121, 123

  National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 22, 70

  Natural interaction

  affordances, 66–69, 71–72

  as effective communication, 149–153

  examples of, 18–21, 74–77, 86–90

  feedback provided through, 147–149

  implicit signals and communication as, 61–66

  lessons to be learned from, 57–60

  limited ability to create, 104

  machine+person entities, communication with/within, 69–74

  a machine’s perspective on, 185

  natural sounds, examples of, 60–61

  “playbook” concept, 73–74

  responsive automation, 86–90

  safety, reverse risk compensation to increase, 77–85

  See also Communication; Signaling; Sounds

  Natural mappings, 149–150

  Negotiation, power in, 3

  Neural networks, 119–120

  Newton, the (Apple Computer), 142–146

  Overautomation, 107–108

  Palm, 146

  Paragraph International, 143

  People

  blind, sile
nt automobiles and, 64

  changes in resulting from changes in technology, 165–167

  conforming to our technology, 168–171

  homes that augment the intelligence of, 123–130

  and machines, comparisons to and relations with. See People and machines

  perceptual system of, 58–59

  as tools of technology, 94–99. See also Technology

  People and machines

  blame for problems, question of assigning, 12, 142–147

  brains of, comparison between, 40–41

  control, shift of the entity in, 10–17

  differences between, 14–16

  discrepancies in the workings of, 48–49

  disjunction between what they find easy and hard, 26–27

  evolution of, comparison between, 41–42

  interaction between, difficulties regarding, 5–10, 49–55. See also Communication

  the machine’s point of view. See Machine’s point of view, the

  symbiotic relationship of in future technology, 43–47

  Perlman, R., 184

  Peshkin, Michael, 86

  Physical marks as implicit communication, 66

  Plato, 5

  Platooning, 111–113

  “Playbook” concept, 73–74

  Radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, 29, 31

  Recommendation systems, 20–21

  Refrigerator magnets, 125–127

  Responsive automation, 86–90

  Risk

  a machine’s perspective on reverse compensation, 186

  perception of and reverse compensation, 78–85

  Risk homeostasis, 79

  Robots, 160–165

  Rosetta, 145

  Royal Majesty, 115

  Rrrun (Thoma), 42

  Rumble strips, 150–151

  Safety, perceived vs. real and reverse risk compensation, 77–85

  Sapper, Richard, 65

  Science of design, 171–175

  Segway Personal Transporter, 89–90

  Semiotic Engineering (de Souza), 67

  Shared Space, 79–80

  Signaling

  annoyance/confusion/danger of multiple devices, 57–58

  communication distinguished from, 57

  implicit, 61–66

  natural. See Natural interaction

  in reverse risk compensation, 83

  See also Communication; Sounds

  Situation awareness, 114

  “Smart” environments, 28

  “Smart” homes. See Homes

  “Smart” machines. See Intelligent machines

  Snow White, 155–156

  Socrates, 5–6

  Sounds

  alarms, 141

  of appliances in the home, 139–140

  comfort noise, 63

  design problem regarding, 63–65

  missing elevators without, 138

 

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