affective design

I’ve given talks at a number of conferences over the years, but the 2010 IA Summit was my first time presenting both a talk and a poster. Read more

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Over at Boxes and Arrows, they’ve just published an article I’ve written discussing how to design interfaces that encourage the creation of “flow“. Read more

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Colour is one aspect of an interface that prominently comes into play when we are discussing design and emotion for products, software and websites. As with anything that evokes emotion, there are both conscious and unconscious processes involved… Read more

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Another way to describe the relationship between emotions is in terms of the relationship between two dimensions; value and arousal… Read more

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Emotions affect how we feel, how we think, what we say and what we do. We represent the objects we encounter and the experiences we have in… Read more

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In order to understand and apply emotions to the practice of design, it’s necessary to understand what differentiates different types of emotions, and the effect of emotions on… Read more

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Emotions are the means employed by the mind to evaluate the organism’s internal and external environment and respond appropriately… Read more

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Over the next few weeks, I’ll be posting articles drawn directly from my master’s thesis work in emotions and HCI… Read more

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