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Emotion & UX Emotional Products

Testing Emotional Responses to Websites

Over at Simpler is Better, Iain Barker describes how he used 118 emotion words from the Microsoft Product Reaction Cards to test people’s reactions to websites…

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Emotion & Attention Opinions Psychology

How Does Culture Affect What We Focus on?

With globalization, more products and services are being distributed to a global, multicultural audience. What kinds of adjustments need to be made to tailor these products to different cultures?

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Emotion & UX Emotional Products Opinions

Phones That Sense Their Environment

The recent announcement of the iPhone, equipped with motion and proximity sensing capabilities was only the first in a rash of new phones that can sense and respond to the environment…

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Emotion & UX Emotional Products Product Personalities

Designing Emotional Software

Donald Norman has a post on his blog about how he helped H&R Block create their new tax software tango based on Emotional Design principles…

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Emotion & UX Presentations Product Personalities

Emotion, Arousal, Attention and Flow on Slideshare

In a previous post, I mentioned how Stephen P. Anderson had utilized a few slides from my 2006 IA Summit talk for his fantastic presentation entitled Creating Pleasurable Interfaces

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Emotions & Information Opinions Persuasion

Visualize and Communicate Information Persuasively

When it comes to communicating information in a way that resonates persuasively with people, it’s important to tailor how that information is displayed…

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Emotional Products Opinions

PC World’s 20 Most Annoying Tech Products

PC World lists the 20 Most Annoying Tech Products. And for some reason, their #1 choice reminds me of Seinfeld and Grunge

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Emotion & UX Emotional Products Opinions

Happiness, Engagement and Love in Video Games

As the emotional effects of video games become more and more apparent, the games themselves are diversifying to occupy different emotional “niches”…

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Emotion & UX Opinions Presentations

Creating Pleasurable Interfaces with Stephen P. Anderson

Stephen P. Anderson from PoetPainter has posted a presentation on Slideshare entitled “Creating Pleasurable Interfaces: Getting From Tasks to Experiences”…

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Effects of Affect Emotions & Health Opinions

Expressing Love May Lower Your Cholesterol Levels

How can designing for emotion help improve medical care? An article on Medical News Today describes a study in Human Communication Research that suggests expressing love may help lower cholesterol…

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Neuroscience Psychology

Moral Decisions are Social Emotional Decisions

Would you kill one person to save others? Two recent medical articles here and here discuss recent findings by neuroscientists showing damage to a particular portion of the brain that is known to process social emotions can affect moral judgments…

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