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SEMANTICS: MEANINGS AND CONTEXTS OF ARTIFACTS11This chapter reflects a long collaboration between Klaus Krippendorff, who wrote its text, and Reinhart Butter, who provided the photographic illustrations for this text
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2008
Product Experience
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. Comments
doi:10.1016/b978-008045089-6.50017-4
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