Technology as Experience

Technology as Experience
15 Oct. 2004
Author: John Mccarthy,Peter Wright (Author)
Publisher: MIT Press (15 Oct. 2004)
Language: English
Hardcover: 256 pages
ISBN-10: 0262134470
ISBN-13: 9780262134477
Book Description
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.
Table of contents:
TECHNOLOGY AS EXPERIENCE…Page 1
Contents…Page 8
Preface…Page 10
Acknowledgments…Page 12
1 Living with Technology…Page 14
2 Going on from Practice…Page 36
3 A Pragmatist Approach to Technology as Experience…Page 62
4 The Threads of Experience…Page 92
5 Making Sense of Experience…Page 118
6 An Online Shopping Experience…Page 144
7 A Pilot’s Experiences with Procedures…Page 160
8 Experiences of Ambulance Control…Page 174
9 Technology as Experience…Page 196
References…Page 212
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