Hi Dave, I guess this term "product experience" is not really new, it is just mostly related to other fields of design that we are not so close - as product/industrial design.
In fact, we are familiar with this "user experience" and "interaction" terms, but is interesting to notice that they have been used in other fields than human-computer / interaction design or whatever we call our expertise. As we "experience" many different things in many different contexts, a wide range of meanings can arise from this "user experience" idea. I guess Nathan Shedroff was one of the first ones I've noticed to use this notion of "experience design" not exclusively related to computer interaction design. It's very interesting to notice that both Paul Hekkert and Hendrik N. J. Schifferstein, editors of this book, are researchers at the faculty of Industrial Design Engineering of Delft University, one of the main schools that are going deeper in this field of experience design, design and emotion and so one... people are interested in understanding what makes a good experience, no matter if we're talking about computers, a chair, a poster. Psychology, perception, cognition, emotion...these are the fields that industrial designers are interested nowadays in order to "design an experience" - which is comprehensible, as products are becoming commodities, and services are becoming more important. Services are less tangible to evaluate, we only can tell about our experience in using them. I totally agree with you. We sure have to rethink our research...the age of pervasive computing is at our doorstep, computers tend to be less perceptible as an object, interfaces and context will become more and more dynamic and multi-sensorial. User experience design is going to another level. regards, mauro -- prof. mauro pinheiro universidade federal do espírito santo centro de artes depto. de desenho industrial On Feb 17, 2008 12:58 PM, David Malouf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A new book is coming on entitled "Product Experience". > http://tinyurl.com/3d5xu8 > > It seems to be a classic user experience book but with a twist. Instead of > Human-Computer Interaction it talks about Product-Human Interaction. > I never heard the phrase before, but it really speaks to me in terms of > re-thinking our research. Computer is a tad of an antiquated term in so far > as much of the silicon we interact with is not on a traditional computer > format (is there such a think any more?). > > Anyway, the book seems interesting. > > -- dave > > > -- > David Malouf > http://synapticburn.com/ > http://ixda.org/ > http://motorola.com/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
