Measuring user experience

This is a reference list, but also an overview of resarch that concerns methods and perspectives for understanding user engagement. It is created by the reseracher Mounia Palmas at Yahoo.

I haven't gone through it yet...  but it may include some delighters.

People are already cyborgs

Donna Haraway writes about us being cyborgs, connected and dependent on the technology around us. Jepp, part of you brain is on the Internet and on your mobilephone Harraway is "a leading thinker about people's love/hate relationship with machines". Jepp, she is also into this perspective that we need to understand peoples relationships to technology, and even that human and machine are not possible to separate any longer. I don't agree fully, but I think it says something about our relationship to technology. Living "without that part of your brain" is like living without glasses  when having really bad sight. You feel cut off from reality. You loose something of yourself and you ability to take part in society and to perceive,  reflect and communicate.

Harraway also tackles "masculine bias in scientific culture and sees herself as the troubled "modest witness" of the ethical maelstrom of genetic engineering" 

Read more at: 

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.02/ffharaway_pr.html

By the way, Donna is coming to Uppsala in 30 of October!