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- Title
Expanding Pragmatism with Symbolic Interactionism: Recounting the Story of Two Frameworks.
- Authors
Koskinen, Ilpo; Forlizzi, Jodi; Battarbee, Katja
- Abstract
This article describes the story of pragmatism and its transformation into symbolic interactionism at Carnegie Mellon University and Aalto University. In both universities, design researchers were interested in user experience in interactive systems. John Dewey's pragmatism taught them to study how experience sometimes transforms into an experience and occasionally into stories. Herbert Blumer's interactionism had its roots in Chicago School sociology, and it developed in association with pragmatism. His interactionism gave these researchers tools to study Dewey's concepts empirically. We show in the article how this theoretical connection came about after 2000 and how it has shaped research programs in these two communities since then. We also discuss the relevance of pragmatism and interactionism in our current technological landscape, dominated by social media and artificial intelligence.
- Subjects
SYMBOLIC interactionism; DEWEY, John, 1859-1952; PRAGMATISM; AALTO University; CARNEGIE-Mellon University; USER experience; RESEARCH personnel; ARTIFICIAL intelligence
- Publication
Design Issues, 2023, Vol 39, Issue 4, p49
- ISSN
0747-9360
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1162/desi_a_00736