Trajectories as Journeys through User Experiences
This week I chose to discuss “From Interaction to Trajectories: Designing Coherent Journeys Through User Experiences” by Steve Benford, Gabriella Giannachi, Boriana …
Experience prototyping
In order to better understand experience prototyping I chose the paper titled “Design of an audio-based mobile journey planner application”. The paper …
Do you care if a computer says sorry? I didn’t think I did until I read this…
This week I chose to read ‘Do you Care if a Computer Says Sorry? User Experience Design through Affective Messages’ by Park …
Experience Prototyping
In their paper “Experience Prototyping” (2000), Buchenau and Suri explore the idea of creating representations of user experiences, through which early designs …
Towards a Shared Definition of User Experience (UX)
In order to obtain a better understanding about the experience design, we (Zeinab, Tag and me) found three papers for ourselves, which …
Undestanding Experience in Interactive Systems
This week I reviewed the paper entitled ” Understanding Experience in Interactive Systems” by Jodi Forlizzi and Katja Battarbee. The paper discusses …
‘Sine qua non’ of aesthetic experiences
This week is all about experience design and particularly about interactive systems that inspire inquisitive use. The term comes from John Dewey …
Designing for sustainability: fostering reflection in the design process
In this paper, Durall et al. focus on the strong links between experience and reflection [1, 2] and provide a method, through …
Experiences Before Things: A Primer for the (yet) Unconvinced
In ‘Experiences Before Things: A Primer for the (yet) Unconvinced’ author Marc Hassenzahl argues that HCI designers should shift their focus from …
Users’ expectations as an element of UX
This week I reviewed a paper by Thomas Olsson, titled “Layers of users expectations of future technologies: an early framework”. This …
Experience prototyping in automobiles
This week’s theme is “Experience Prototyping” [1], a design method that enables designers, clients or users to acquire a deeper understanding of …
What is the experience of a run down a mountain on a snowboard? It depends on the weight and material qualities of the board, the bindings and your boots, the snow conditions the weather, the terrain, the temperature of air in your hair, your skill level, your current state of mind, the mood and expressions of your companions (Buchenau and Suri, 2000, p.1).
Experience-centred design in HCI is a design philosophy that focuses on the experiential relationships that people have with technology. It is a …
Experience Centred Design: Whats all the fuss about?
This week I read Wright et al’s paper Aesthetics and Experience-Centred Design [1]. The authors build on Graves Peterson’s pragmatist framework for …
Activity tracking methods and motivations
A hot topic in the technology world at present is the ‘Quantified Self’. This is a movement where ordinary people seek to …
I can’t let you eat that, Dave. Have some carrot juice instead.
In their paper ‘Fit4Life: The Design of a Persuasive Technology Promoting Healthy Behaviour and Ideal Weight’ Purpura et al put forward a …
Quantified self: useful or useless?
… critical design whose goal is not to provide clear answers, but to provoke reflection … This week’s paper proposes a fictional, …