Departmental Papers (ASC)
Document Type
Book Chapter
Date of this Version
January 2007
Abstract
English dictionaries trace the origin of the word, 'experience' to knowledge of or skill in making experiments. Its etymology suggests an important conceptual truth: experiences are not merely personal and subjective but crucially related to interacting with something of interest, an artifact, an activity, or a situation involving other people. What we will explore here must therefore overcome the objective/subjective Cartesian dichotomy and be concerned instead with how humans experience the world by acting on it and creating it.
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Date Posted: 11 March 2008
Comments
Postprint from Product Experience, edited by Hendrik N.J. Schifferstein and Paul Hekkert (New York: Elsevier, 2007), pages 1-25.