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User experience (UX): towards an experiential perspective on product quality

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User Experience (UX) is not just "old wine in new bottles". It is a truly extended and distinct perspective on the quality of interactive technology: away from products and problems to humans and the drivers of positive experience. This paper will present my particular perspective on UX and will discuss its implications for the field of Human-Computer Interaction.

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      IHM '08: Proceedings of the 20th Conference on l'Interaction Homme-Machine
      September 2008
      215 pages
      ISBN:9781605582856
      DOI:10.1145/1512714

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