From the website Design & Emotion, Marco van Hout interviews business leaders and folks from leading design agencies on the topic of emotion and design…
Month: November 2006
Every time I’m forced to book a flight with Air Canada, due to the virtual monopoly they enjoy on Canadian flights, the experience can only be described as…
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…
The W3C has created a group to explore the increased use of emotional cues on the web, including a set language for representing and annotating emotions…
New Scientist Tech has an article about how the town of Groningen in the Netherlands has installed microphones at street level to help monitor the ’emotional’ activity on the street…
Hotel News has an article about how brands need to respond to customers’ emotional needs to build and sustain brand loyalty. The article focuses on three key points, paraphrased below…
We Feel Fine is the brainchild of ‘harvests’ human feelings (nice image ;-)) from weblogs by searching for the phrases “I feel” and “I am feeling” and then identifying the…
Steve Portigal sent me a link about a Japanese system called the Symbiotic Hosting Online Jog Instrument (SHQJI). This product can…
Weekend America has a story about how a device made by EmSense can monitor emotions for use in gaming applications.
“Video games that can tell what you’re feeling and even alter how the game reacts to you based on your emotional state are on the horizon, says Mike Zyda, who heads up the University of Southern California’s video game development program.”…
Spiegel Online has a fascinating article about how some European cities are experimenting with reducing or eliminating traffic signals and signs, and in some places, even removing the distinction between sidewalks and roads. So at this point, you may be thinking, “how does this relate to emotion?”…