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Experience

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Interest in user experience (UX) became apparent in the mid-1990s when its advocates proposed that the design and evaluation of digital technology should be extended beyond the purely instrumental to include the broader range of experiences which it offers.

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Notes

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    The graded structure of a concept refers to the evidence that some examples are better than others. For example, if we consider birds, clearly robins are better members of this category than penguins.

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    To the alarmed reader, don’t worry—beyond this chapter there is relatively little Heidegger.

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Turner, P. (2017). Experience. In: A Psychology of User Experience . Human–Computer Interaction Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70653-5_1

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