Leonardo's Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies

Using the inspiration of Leonardo da Vinci to build a new, humanistic computing that focuses on users' needs and goals."A very useful book ..." -- Peta Jellis, First Monday Reviews..."This book is an inspiration, a must read." -- Gavriel Salvendy, International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction..."This book is an inspiration, a must read." < br />"This is an eloquently written and visionary book." < br />"It's easy...to get caught up in the author's techno-Utopian vision of a world more >>

Using the inspiration of Leonardo da Vinci to build a new, humanistic computing that focuses on users' needs and goals."A very useful book ..." -- Peta Jellis, First Monday Reviews..."This book is an inspiration, a must read." -- Gavriel Salvendy, International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction..."This book is an inspiration, a must read." < br />"This is an eloquently written and visionary book." < br />"It's easy...to get caught up in the author's techno-Utopian vision of a world hotwired to serve its populace." < br />"A very useful book ..."-- Peta Jellis, "First Monday Reviews"..." This book is an inspiration, a must read."-- Gavriel Salvendy, "International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction""Who should read ýLeonardo's Laptopý? Everyone who cares about mankind, technology, and the future."-- Gerd Waloszek, SAP Deisgn Guild"ýSchneidermaný is blessed with an engaging writing style and the ability to make this material interesting and lively."-- Jessie Thorpe, Modbee.com-- Parshu Anantharam, "The Rational Edge"--Christinger Tomer, University of Pittsburgh--Diane Maloney-Krichmar, University of Maryland Baltimore County-- Gavriel Salvendy, "International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction"" A very useful book ..." -- Peta Jellis, "First Monday Reviews"" This book will change the way you think about web design." -- WebReference" ... This book is an inspiration, a must read." -- Gavriel Salvendy, "International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction"" Who should read [Leonardo's Laptop]? Everyone who cares about mankind, technology, and the future." -- Gerd Waloszek, SAP Deisgn Guild" [Schneiderman] is blessed with an engaging writing style and the ability to make this material interesting and lively." -- Jessie Thorpe, Modbee.com" It's easy ... to get caught up in the author's techno-Utopian vision of a world hotwired to serve its populace." -- Elizabeth Millard, ComputerUser.com" This book communicates a kaleidoscopic vision of how technology can be used to empower people ... interesting and exciting." -- Parshu Anantharam, "The Rational Edge"" Questions about the relationship between technology and culture may be more important than ever. Ben Shneiderman's conviction that da Vinci's ideas about art and technique remain relevant may bring us an important step or two closer to useful answers about the roles that we want computers in play in our lives." The course in which I've used "Leonardo's Laptop" is called " LIS 2000: Understanding Information." ...It is designed as an introduction to the graduate program in library and information science at Pittsburgh, and attempts to look at a series of issues that affect the environment for scholarly publishing, information exchange, information retrieval, etc. The official course description is as follows: " Issues and problems arising from interrelationships among information and individuals, society, organizations and systems, and information that the information professions address." --Christinger Tomer, University of Pittsburgh& quot; This book will change the way you think about web design.& quot; -- WebReference& quot; A very useful book ...& quot; -- Peta Jellis, First Monday Reviews& quot; [Schneiderman] is blessed with an engaging writing style and the ability to make this material interesting and lively.& quot; -- Jessie Thorpe, Modbee.com& quot; Who should read [Leonardo's Laptop]? Everyone who cares about mankind, technology, and the future.& quot; -- Gerd Waloszek, SAP Deisgn Guild& quot; ... This book is an inspiration, a must read.& quot; -- Gavriel Salvendy, International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction& quot; It's easy ... to get caught up in the author's techno-Utopian vision of a world hotwired to serve its populace.& quot; -- Elizabeth Millard, ComputerUser.com& quot; This book communicates a kaleidoscopic vision of how technology can be us << less