John McCarthy is Professor of Applied Psychology at University College Cork. McCarthy and Wright are the coauthors of Technology as Experience (MIT Press) and Experience-Centered Design. Peter Wright is Professor of Social Computing at Newcastle University. Wright and McCarthy are the coauthors of Technology as Experience (MIT Press) and Experience-Centered Design.
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