Clifford Nass (1958–2013)
Författare till The Man Who Lied to His Laptop: What Machines Teach Us About Human Relationships
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- Nass, Clifford Ivar
- Andra namn
- Nass, Cliff
- Födelsedag
- 1958-04-03
- Avled
- 2013-11-02
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
- Dödsort
- Stanford Sierra Camp, Fallen Leaf Lake, California, USA
- Bostadsorter
- Teaneck, New Jersey, USA
- Utbildning
- Princeton University (PhD)
- Yrken
- professor (Communication)
computer scientist - Organisationer
- Stanford University
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Statistik
- Verk
- 3
- Medlemmar
- 271
- Popularitet
- #85,376
- Betyg
- 3.5
- Recensioner
- 5
- ISBN
- 14
I found the writing itself somewhat problematic. I thought that Nass's ego tended to get in the way of the story-telling. Basically every successful experiment discussed was Nass's, and he is quick to point out how he solved issues that had been plaguing other "lesser" scientists for years.At some point, I started to count how many times the phrases "I solved," "I discovered," "I showed," etc, popped up, but I quickly lost count. In addition, the layout of idea/anecdote-experiment-conclusion-reaction became somewhat repetitive. However, one benefit of this format and dearth of overall narrative structure is that if a reader was only interested in particular areas, it would be easy to skip to those sections.
The ideas ranged from the obvious to the surprising and unintuitive. One of my favourite examples was Nass's discussion of how he had been brought in as a consult for Microsoft about the disaster that was "Mr. Clippy, the Animated Assistant." I remember Mr. Clippy. The first advanced setting I learned in Word was how to turn the darned thing off. Nass's advice, backed up by experiments, was to make Mr. Clippy tell the user that he is stupid (thereby flattering the user's ego) and apologize and berate himself and Microsoft whenever he made mistakes. For some reason, Microsoft wasn't exactly happy with this...can't imagine why... Overall, definitely an interesting read from a renowned scientist.… (mer)