Departmental Papers (ASC)
Document Type
Book Chapter
Date of this Version
January 2007
Publication Source
Product Experience
Start Page
1
Last Page
25
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.
Recommended Citation
Krippendorff, K., & Butter, R. (2007). Semantics: Meanings and contexts of artifacts. In H. N. J. Schifferstein & P. Hekkert (Eds.), Product experience. New York, NY: Elsevier. Retrieved from http://repository.upenn.edu/asc_papers/91
Date Posted: 11 March 2008
Comments
Postprint version.