Emotional Experience and Interaction Design

Building a Soft Machine: New Modes of Expressive Surfaces

“…Visceral is a theme often found in the context of theater and film for the creation of 'affect'. Youn-Kyung Lim et al, for their part, explore emotional experience in interaction design -using Norman's definition of 'Visceral' as 'perceptually-induced reactions' which relate directly to our physical senses [36].…”

Design Dialogue: The Visceral Hedonic Rhetoric Framework

“…Lim, Donaldson, Jung, Kunz, Royer, Ramlingingam, Thirmaran, and Stolterman were successful in demonstrating that some direct correlations exist between certain qualities and certain emotional responses. 53 However, their study asked participants to provide examples of products they either liked or disliked; these products were then matched to a series of descriptive words belonging to each level of cognition. The issue with this approach is that visceral response is inherently fleeting; it is an instantaneous and momentary judgment that cannot be reproduced at a later stage in an interview.…”

Design, User Experience, and Usability: Technological Contexts

“…Finally, Freides [36] noted that with complex spatial or temporal pattern recognition, the sensory modality used to represent the data is more critical than the contextual and parametric variables themselves because each modality processes information in a different way, and we automatically use the modality best suited to process variables that represent spatial, temporal, tactile, or kinesthetic relationships.…”