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标题：Situated Techno-Cools: factors that contribute to making technology cool in a given context of use
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作者：Alma Leora Culén ; Andrea Alessandro Gasparini
期刊名称：PsychNology Journal
电子版ISSN：1720-7525
出版年度：2012
卷号：10
期号：2
页码：117-139
出版社：PsychNology Journal
摘要：The concept “cool”, as it applies to technological products, is discussed in this paper. We offer a model showing how different factors in situated use of techno-cools affect the perception of coolness. The model is discussed using a case of the iPad in educational use. The case is grounded in our experience from four case studies related to introduction of the iPad as a cool educational tool in two elementary schools, a high school, and a university. The space between iPad’s coolness as a device and factors influencing that coolness in education, such as mastery, usefulness, added value, self-presentation and identity, novelty and fun, was studied. The age of participants was a determining factor for what subset of these was making the iPads cool at school. Tween students considered self-presentation, fun and novelty as the most important factors. For older students the important ones were usefulness, added value and mastery.
关键词：Cool; situated cool; techno-cool model; ;iPad