Designing Pleasurable Products

Jordan, Patrick W.

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“…performance) to more subjective issues of user satisfaction and enjoyment. These factors include emotion (Picard, 1997), pleasure (Jordan, 2000), fun (Blythe et al, 2003), engagability (Knight and Pandir, 2005), ambiguity (Gaver and Beaver, 2003) and aesthetics (Tilghman, 2004). The rationale for this shift is based on a growing awareness of the importance of subjective factors in influencing preference in choosing products and services.…”

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Homepage aesthetics: The search for preference factors and the challenges of subjectivity

Pandır

Knight²

2006

Interacting with Computers

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While many studies have considered the usability of website homepages, subjective issues such as preference have been under explored. This paper describes a pilot study that investigates subjects' preferences for different homepages. The study applies Berlyne's theory of experimental aesthetics to website homepages. This theory suggests that there is an inverted-U shape relationship between preference for a stimulus and its complexity. Twelve subjects evaluated 12 homepages. The study used a ranking method to measure subjects' preferences and the relationships between complexity, pleasure and interestingness. In addition, verbal reports were collected. No support was found for an inverted-U shape relationship and the findings indicate that complexity is not a predictor of pleasure. However, the results uncovered a number of subjective factors that underlie preference. These factors include individual differences in taste and lifestyle all of which are highly personal factors that change and develop over time. In addition, the findings suggest a link between interestingness and curiosity. Lastly, the findings show an agreement on the judgements of complexity, and disagreement on aesthetic preferences. In conclusion, the paper points out the challenges faced in researching preference because of its highly subjective character.

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Homepage aesthetics: The search for preference factors and the challenges of subjectivity

Pandır

Knight²

2006

Interacting with Computers

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“…Hofstede 8 comments that cultural orientations are extremely deeply embedded in cultures over hundreds and thousands of years; consequently, he feels that even modern communication media have not dislodged these cultural orientations. In fact, cultures tend sometimes to concentrate harder on preserving their approaches given the encroachment of alien cultures.…”

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Information Visualization for Advanced Vehicle Displays

Marcus

2002

Information Visualization

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Almost all vehicles soon will acquire advanced user interfaces with specialized information visualization. This revolution poses significant human factors issues, but also new challenges of appeal, cultural orientation, and branding. This article describes considerations beyond traditional human factors and shows conceptual visual prototypes that explore new approaches to vehicle information displays.

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“…Jordan 2002, Norman 2005. These approaches look not only at the practical and functional aspects of user -product interaction, but also at a variety of emotional and other variables which contribute to the overall experience of product use and ownership.…”

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Exploring users' product constructs: how people think about different types of product

Jordan

Persson

2007

CoDesign

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A repertory grid-based study (n ¼ 20) investigated the issues that people identify when considering different types of products. Participants were each presented with four sets of three stimuli, each representing a different product type. For each set of stimuli they were asked to pick an 'odd-one-out' and to describe why they had placed it apart from the other two in the set. Participants' responses differed markedly by product type. This suggests that approaches to affective design need to be seen in the context of the type of product under development. The outcomes of the study challenge some of the orthodoxies of human factors affective design. While, for some products, the key to positive affect might be a rich array of lifestyle associations and a positive user experience, for others it may simply be about styling or functionality.

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Designing Pleasurable Products

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Homepage aesthetics: The search for preference factors and the challenges of subjectivity

Homepage aesthetics: The search for preference factors and the challenges of subjectivity

Information Visualization for Advanced Vehicle Displays

Exploring users' product constructs: how people think about different types of product

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