@article{1412117,
      recid = {1412117},
      author = {Brown, Barry, and Juhlin, Oskar,},
      title = {Enjoying machines /},
      pages = {1 online resource (viii, 219 pages)},
      abstract = {The dominant feature of modern technology is not how  productive it makes us, or how it has revolutionized the  workplace, but how enjoyable it is. We take pleasure in our  devices, from smartphones to personal computers to  televisions. Whole classes of leisure activities rely on  technology. How has technology become such an integral part  of enjoyment? In this book, Barry Brown and Oskar Juhlin  examine the relationship between pleasure and technology,  investigating what pleasure and leisure are, how they have  come to depend on the many forms of technology, and how we  might design technology to support enjoyment. They do this  by studying the experience of enjoyment, documenting such  activities as computer gameplay, deer hunting, tourism, and  television watching. They describe technologies that  support these activities, including prototype systems that  they themselves developed.Brown and Juhlin argue that  pleasure is fundamentally social in nature. We learn how to  enjoy ourselves from others, mastering it as a set of  skills. Drawing on their own ethnographic studies and on  research from economics, psychology, and philosophy, Brown  and Juhlin argue that enjoyment is a key concept in  understanding the social world. They propose a framework  for the study of enjoyment: the empirical program of  enjoyment.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1412117},
}