I write this blog post in response to a blog post published a week ago called “A Growing Problem in HCI Research,” written by my colleague Erik Stolterman. The “growing problem” that Stolterman refers to is the expansion of HCI as a research field to the point that it now “has an empty space in…
This is going to be short, more like a provocation than a serious post. This quote really stirred me. What [philosopher Arthur Danto’s book] The Transfiguration [of the Commonplace] really attempts to do is to display a certain train of ideas, a certain set of discoveries and the questions opened up by them. It is…
Dewey’s notion of aesthetic experience is both reasonably easy to learn and use, and it has been very influential in user experience design practice and theory. Because I teach it at least once a year, and because I always seem to be drawing the same basic picture of it, I decided to make a more…
Read more A Visual Representation of Dewey’s Notion of Experience
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