3.1 Characteristics of Convivial Tools
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Tuesday 24 July 2007
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6 Others
Other characteristics of Technical Conviviality include:
6 Ergonomics
7 Simplicity
8 Robustness
9 Open access
10 Modularity
11 Recyclability
12 Environmental friendliness
13 Social friendliness
14 Promotion of autonomy
15 Full service
16 Eutrapelia
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Tuesday 17 July 2007
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3 Intuitive Use
As electronic objects accumulate an ever increasing number of functions, they become more and more difficult to learn to use. One could give endless examples of small catastrophes resulting from failure to master overly-complex products, such as accidental erasure of photos in a digital camera, (...)
Saturday 14 July 2007
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5 Durability
There appear to be two meanings of the word durability with respect to technical products: life-cycle durability and database durability.
Life-cycle durability
In the first sense, durability refers to the length of the working life of tool. We could call this "life-cycle durability." A (...)
Monday 11 June 2007
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4 Reparability
Reparability is unfashionable
There are two possible spellings for this word which denotes the quality of being easy to repair: "repairability" or "reparability". A google search yields about twice as many hits for the first spelling than for the second, but this article uses the second. (...)
Monday 11 June 2007
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2 Usability
Definition of Usability
The on-line encyclopaedia Wikipedia defines "Usability" as:
The ease with which people can employ a particular tool or other human-made object in order to achieve a particular goal.
The Wikipedia definition appears to be a simplified version of the definition given (...)
Tuesday 5 June 2007
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1 The Characteristics of Convivial Tools
The characteristics of convivial tools are those which enhance the user’s capability to work with independent efficiency. A fairly comprehensive list might include the following characteristics:
Usability Intuitive Use Reliability Reparability Durability Ergonomics Simplicity Robustness (...)