Product experience The book brings together research that investigates how people experience products: durable non durable or virtual. In contrast to other books the present book takes a very broad possibly all inclusive perspective on how people experience products. It thereby bridges gaps between several areas within psychology (e.g. perception cognition emotion) and links these areas to more applied areas of science such as product design human computer interaction and marketing. The field of product experience research will include some of the research from four areas: Arts Ergonomics Technology and Marketing. Traditionally each of these four fields seems to have a natural emphasis on the human (ergonomics and marketing) the product (technology) or the experience (arts). However to fully understand human product experience we need to use different approaches and we need to build bridges between these various fields of expertise *Most comprehensive collection of psychological research behind product design and usability *Consistenly addresses the 3 components of human product experience: the human the product and the experience *International contributions from experts in the field