Aesthetics of Interaction Design

Understanding participant engagement in problem structuring interventions with self-determination theory

“…Moreover, prior work with SDT has studied how environments can be designed to be more conducive to experiences of competence, relatedness, and autonomy through their emotional appeal (Rigby, 2015;Ryan & Deci, 2006). Hence, to study the aesthetic experience of participants as they interact in a problem structuring intervention, concepts from interaction aesthetics are drawn upon, an area of research which focuses on how design elements can be used to create desirable emotional responses when participants interact with designed objects or systems (Hunicke, LeBlanc, & Zubek, 2004;Mõttus & Lamas, 2015). Specifically, to guide the exploratory study, a well-established taxonomy which identifies aesthetic design elements (Hunicke, LeBlanc, & Zubek, 2004) for creating high-engagement activities is used, which has been found to be useful in a wide range of scenarios (e.g., Leclercq, Poncin, & Hammedi, 2017;Peters et al, 2018).…”

Know Your Audience: The benefits and pitfalls of generating plain language summaries beyond the "general" audience

“…A rich body of work in HCI has shown that for many interfaces, one size does not fit all. Adapting interfaces to different users has the potential to improve usability [13,87], aesthetic judgements [28,69], and trust [61,68]. Increasingly, language styles, such as community language norms [26], formality [9], and text complexity [11,95] have been the focus of adaptable user interfaces.…”