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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.

Technology --- Pleasure. --- Amusements. --- Psychological aspects. --- Social aspects.

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Interactive multimedia --- Entertainment computing --- Artificial intelligence --- Amusements --- Electronic data processing

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German literature --- Amusements --- Literary recreations --- Consumption (Economics) --- Amusements. --- Consumption (Economics). --- German literature. --- Intellectual life. --- Literary recreations. --- Manners and customs. --- History and criticism --- History --- History --- History --- 1800-1899. --- Europe --- Europe --- Europe. --- Intellectual life --- Social life and customs

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Computer games --- Entertainment computing --- Application software --- Electronic games --- Amusements --- Electronic data processing --- Design --- Programming --- Internet games --- Television games --- Videogames --- Games --- Video games

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Jacqueline Lloyd Smith and Denise Meyerson collectively have over 50 years' global experience in the design and delivery of incredible learning experiences for clients in the private and public sectors. They have partnered with top tier, medium size, and small corporate clients to produce events that rock. They are now opening their files to other facilitators, and educators-of all levels-to share tools and techniques they have personally tested and used.They are generously allowing you to benefit from their years of experience in the training, facilitation, and design space so you too are able to prepare, structure, and implement teachable moments, workshops, events, training days, learning experiences, offsites, and seminars that have a strong impact-and are memorable. Dip into this essential guide after you have been briefed by the executive team, managers, or human resource professionals and you are required to deliver a face-to-face session for anything between 1 and 100 hours. Play with these practical, user-friendly techniques to help your participants feel engaged and energized, so they will remember the key messages long after the event. Redesign and restructure the tools to suit your audience and the topic so the session remains vibrant and focused. Create experiences for any topic, whether for technical, personal, or professional development purposes.Not only do you have access to great openers and closers to activate thinking, we also provide you with a roadmap and overall layout so you have examples of how to structure your sessions.

Strategic planning --- Business meetings --- Play --- Recreations --- Recreation --- Amusements --- Games --- Meetings --- Goal setting (Strategic planning) --- Planning, Strategic --- Strategic intent (Strategic planning) --- Strategic management --- Planning --- Business planning --- E-books --- Employees