Chapter 6: Emotional Interaction
Chapter Introduction | Web Resources | In-Depth Activity Comments | Teaching Materials
Below is additional material associated with the topics covered in chapter 6.
Emotion and interaction design
Aarron Walter’s blog (2018) on "Designing for Emotion"; includes a complete chapter from his 2011 book.
www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2018/05/designing-for-emotion.php
Dan Saffer describes the elements of interaction design that cover emotional aspects. www.uxmatters.com/MT/archives/000096.php
Angus Deveson (2018) has made a great video on “Emotional Design - How does a product make you FEEL?”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_VivTOAYkE&t=28s
Affective computing
Ros Picard talking about emotion technology at a TedX talk
http://youtu.be/ujxriwApPP4
Automatic face recognition apps
You can download a free app that uses the front facing camera on your phone/tablet to recognize your emotions from:
www.affectiva.com/
A TED talk by Rana el Kaliouby (chief founder of Affectiva) in 2015 outlines how important this new field is, called “This app knows how you feel – from the look on your face.”
www.ted.com/talks/rana_el_kaliouby_this_app_knows_how_you_feel_from_the_look_on_your_face
Links provided in the book:
- Kia Höök talks about affective computing (p168): www.interaction-design.org/encyclopedia/affective_computing.html
- Nest products (p174): www.wired.com/story/inside-the-second-coming-of-nest/
- The Piano Staircase (p183): youtu.be/2lXh2n0aPyw
- The Outdoor Bin (p183): youtu.be/cbEKAwCoCKw
- Interactive doll Luvabella (p187): youtu.be/au2VG9xRZZ0