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Author

Corn, Joseph J.

Title User unfriendly : consumer struggles with personal technologies, from clocks and sewing machines to cars and computers / Joseph J. Corn.

Publication Info.

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.

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Available to Pittsburg State University patrons only.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe ProQuest E-Book	Electronic Book	---	Available

Description	1 online resource (295 pages) : illustrations
	text rdacontent
	computer rdamedia
	online resource rdacarrier
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-264) and index.
Contents	Our marvelous and maddening machines -- The advent of technology consumption -- Buying an automobile -- Running a car -- Tools, tinkering, and trouble -- Reading the owner's manual -- Computers and the tyranny of technology consumption -- The technology treadmill -- Acknowledgments.
Note	Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 5, 2013).
Subject	Consumer satisfaction.
	Human-computer interaction.
	Human-machine systems -- Social aspects.
	Technological innovations -- United States.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
ISBN	9781421401928
	9781421401935 (electronic bk.)