March 2006
Beginner
272 pages
5h 48m
English
Thesis 46Users will tend to blame themselves for defaults in everyware.
When ubiquitous systems break down, as they surely must from time to time, how will we react?
We've seen that it may be difficult to determine the origin of a problem, given a densely interwoven mesh of systems both local and remote—that emergent behavior arising in such a mesh means that there mightn't even be a single point of failure, in the classical sense.
We've also seen that users are likely to understand their interactions with everyware as primarily social in nature. Reeves and Nass tell us, further, that we generally treat informatic systems as though they had ...
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