Technology as Experience

By: Peter Wright

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Paperback | 24 August 2007

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In "Technology as Experience, " John McCarthy and Peter Wright argue that any account of what is often called the user experience must take into consideration the emotional, intellectual, and sensual aspects of our interactions with technology. We don't just use technology, they point out; we live with it. They offer a new approach to understanding human-computer interaction through examining the felt experience of technology. Drawing on the pragmatism of such philosophers as John Dewey and Mikhail Bakhtin, they provide a framework for a clearer analysis of technology as experience. Just as Dewey, in "Art as Experience, " argued that art is part of everyday lived experience and not isolated in a museum, McCarthy and Wright show how technology is deeply embedded in everyday life. The "zestful integration" or transcendent nature of the aesthetic experience, they say, is a model of what human experience with technology might become. McCarthy and Wright illustrate their theoretical framework with real-world examples that range from online shopping to ambulance dispatch. Their approach to understanding human-computer interaction--seeing it as creative, open, and relational, part of felt experience--is a measure of the fullness of technology's potential to be more than merely functional.

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"This book makes us aware that there is more to using technology, particularly software, than analyzing keystroke protocols or watching people at workand of the creativity and openness with which people use and experience technology."Gerd Waloszek, SAP Design Guild, SAP.com " Technology as Experience expertly explores the emotional and aesthetic dimensions of technological encounters, from the visceral aspects of subjective experience to the cultural embeddedness and meaning surrounding artifacts and our experience of them." Paul Dourish , School of Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine " Technology as Experience expertly explores the emotional and aesthetic dimensions of technological encounters, from the visceral aspects of subjective experience to the cultural embeddedness and meaning surrounding artifacts and our experience of them." Paul Dourish , School of Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine "*Technology as Experience* expertly explores the emotional and aesthetic dimensions of technological encounters, from the visceral aspects of subjective experience to the cultural embeddedness and meaning surrounding artifacts and our experience of them."--Paul Dourish, School of Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine

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Non-Fiction Science Science in General Impact of Science & Technology on Society Computing & I.T.Graphical & Digital Media Applications Computer Science Human-Computer Interaction

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Living with Technology	p. 1
Going on from Practice	p. 23
A Pragmatist Approach to Technology as Experience	p. 49
The Threads of Experience	p. 79
Making Sense of Experience	p. 105
An Online Shopping Experience	p. 131
A Pilot's Experiences with Procedures	p. 147
Experiences of Ambulance Control	p. 161
Technology as Experience	p. 183
References	p. 199
Index	p. 207
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