• DocumentCode
    62260
  • Title

    User Unfriendly: Consumer Struggles with Personal Technologies [Book Review]

  • Author

    Wunsch, A. David

  • Volume
    33
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    winter 2014
  • Firstpage
    18
  • Lastpage
    20
  • Abstract
    This book examines the difficulties in marketing and selling new inventions to the mass, consumer market going back to the late 19th century. The difficulties faced by this late 19th century adult trying to master a new invention can serve as a paradigm for the case histories of early adoption that make this book - one that he was apparently inspired to write as part of the first wave of users (around 1982) of the home computer and its printer.
  • Keywords
    consumer behaviour; innovation management; invention; marketing; personal technology; Book reviews; Consumer behavior; Consumer products; Market opportunities; Performance evaluation; Technological innovation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Technology and Society Magazine, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0278-0097
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MTS.2014.2366923
  • Filename
    6969187