A Psychology of User Experience Involvement, Affect and Aesthetics
It is well-established that while cognitive psychology provides a sound foundation for an understanding of our interactions with digital technology, this is no longer sufficient to make sense of how we use and experience the personal, relational and ubiqu
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Phil Turner
A Psychology of User Experience Involvement, Affect and Aesthetics
Human–Computer Interaction Series Editors-in-chief Desney Tan Microsoft Research, USA Jean Vanderdonckt Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/6033
Phil Turner
A Psychology of User Experience Involvement, Affect and Aesthetics
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Phil Turner School of Computing Edinburgh Napier University Edinburgh UK
ISSN 1571-5035 Human–Computer Interaction Series ISBN 978-3-319-70652-8 ISBN 978-3-319-70653-5 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70653-5
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Preface
This book is about why we care about digital technology.
Origins Human–computer interaction (HCI) is the study and development of interactive technology and has witnessed significant changes in brief history. While we continue to use these technologies to complete tasks—everything from managing a company’s finances to killing make-believe aliens and, more recently, a whole raft of activities on our smart phones—our understanding is changing. This change centres on the move from the instrumental use of technology to the use of technology as an end in itself. From the beginnings of HCI, psychology has been called upon in the service of better design, and rather less markedly, in the understanding of users. Changes in the use and application of interactive technology have also changed the scope of the underlying psychology of interaction. Where once “plain vanilla” cognitive psychology could be relied up
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