A 2nd chance - Tech Experience

Technology as Experience by John McCarthy & Peter Wright tell us how users take top priority in understanding in technology usage.

The technique is elaborated into 2 major part, each of them play an important aspect into making the virtual world an experience for life. The first one is 'The Four Threads of Experience' and the second one is 'The Six Sense-making Processes'.

First up 'The Four Threads of Experience'

Compositional is a way of how the user makes up the possibilities of solving, creating a situation and a solution to it. This will makes the user apply the technique that they have encounter in life or make up new ones and test out the result.

Sensuality in designing and adding life to the virtual space by giving out from the most comfortable, acceptable environment to the most cruel and unforgiving surrounding with the adjustment in texture and space when presenting the virtual world.

Emotional is the feedback from the user indicating how they run trough the exhibition, whether they enjoyed it or not.

Last but not least is the SPATIO-TEMPORAL. This is the after effect after going through the virtual world. It's the summary of elements rolled into one and see whether the user experience something good and is he/she willing to come back to it or not.

Now for 'The Six Sense-making Processes'.

Anticipation, is the urge to try new or current possibilities that the simulation offers.

Connection is how we interact with others on social basis. A warm friendly environment will surely attract more users, however take note that monitoring on it is a must as there will be those who are rebellious.

Interpreting are stuff that we human tend to do naturally. By interpretation is one of the major reason into making the user how they feel when visiting the virtual world. Designing and making interaction that would satisfy your needs rather making the user feeling stress and not wanting to use the application anymore.

Reflecting is how the human reflects their daily life and situation into the virtual world. It is also how we gain new experience either testing it out in the virtual world or taken experience from the real world. Reflecting one's self feelings with the new or old experience that we make or use.

Appropriating is the sense of choosing the appropriate or our desired way of doing things. This gained by the multiple test that was done when conducting, making a solution and how we experience it. From experience we then choose the most desired way of doing things.

Recounting is the process of storytelling, sharing our experience with others. This is a way of recap on what we have done/gone through. It can also be way of putting ourselves into thinking a new way or idea in solving previous problem that had been dealt with.

This is something like a summary of what I understand the article 'Technology as Experience' by John McCarthy & Peter Wright. From what I can say is that they focus on every aspect they could when creating something that focus on user's needs and interest. I could not add more as from my point of view, everything is there. The original article can be found in the link below. If there is any correction to be made in my review regarding this article, please leave a comment and I'll try to correct it A.S.A.P.

http://mmr2043.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/mccarthy.pdf