Experience with Technology: Dynamics of User Experience with Mobile Media Devices

ISBN-13: 9781447153962 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 142 str.

Ali Al-Azzawi

Opis

With a focus on gaining an empirically derived understanding of the underlying psychological dimensions and processes behind people's experiences with technology, this book contributes to the debate of user experience (UX) within several disciplines, including HCI, design and marketing. It analyses UX dynamics at various time scales, and explores the very nature of time and meaning in the context of UX.

"Experience with Technology" uses personal construct theory (PCT) as a theoretical and methodological starting point to this project. Major case-studies are described that examine people's experiences with mobile media devices. The results show a group of super-ordinate constructs that, upon interaction, undergo a change in the way they vary and relate to each other, as well as the development of a high reliability UX-Scale.

The book concludes by proposing the ICE ("Interaction, " "Construction," and "Evaluation") model of UX that consolidates its findings into a workable framework of UX. The proposed framework will be of particular use to designers and practitioners, and forms an empirically grounded starting point for further research.

Recenzje

From the reviews:

"The book's main results address three important topics. The first is the conceptualization of the technology, or the way people interpret it. The author then investigates the dynamics of user experience, followed by his proposal of an original model for user experience. ... this book addresses a topic of high interest in an age of tremendous technological development: user experience. ... this book may be more useful to design/marketing people ... ." (D. Grigoras, Computing Reviews, May, 2014)

Spis treści

Foreword by David Frohlich and Margaret Wilson.- Preface.- Introduction.- Theories of Experience.- Measuring Experience.- Construct Dynamics: Interaction.- Construct Dynamics: Consumption.- ICE: A Model of Experience with Technology.- Conclusions.- Appendices.

O autorze

Fadhil Al-Azzawi, geboren 1940 in Kirkuk im Irak, gründete 1969 die Lyrikzeitschrift Shi'r 69, die nach vier Ausgaben verboten wurde. Nachdem er drei Jahre aufgrund seiner politischen Aktivitäten in Haft verbringen mußte, verließ Fadhil al-Azzawi 1977 den Irak und lebt seither in Deutschland. Er schrieb zahlreiche Romane, Lyrikbände und Essays und übersetzte unter anderem Morgenstern, Musil und Enzensberger ins Arabische. Fadhil Al-Azzawi lebt heute in Berlin.