The workshop will be part of the 7th International Conference on Design and Emotion 2010 held in Chicago, US from 4-7 October 2010
Overview
This workshop aims to engage participants actively in the critical exploration of the challenges and opportunities when studying and evaluating experiences in the context of emotions in design. From a methodological point of view, most existing product evaluation techniques do not suffice to capture the richness of experiences. They capture the interaction as an objective still instead of a subjective film.
Participants will be provoked to reflect on and create solutions for capturing temporal, emotional, and motivational aspects of experiences. The task will be a solution-oriented generation of user experience (UX) evaluation tools, addressing these three unresolved methodological issues. Taking a number of context scenarios into account will provide insights into a broader field of applications. As UX is always context-dependent, the inclusion of diverse settings is intended to highlight differences and commonalities of identified solutions. The settings are chosen from the main conference topics.
The half day will be filled with theoretical input, a discussion part, and an interactive group work. Additionally, everyone will be asked to submit position notes before the conference. However, instead of reporting latest results in a written format, all participants will answer the same questions regarding their take on state-of-the-art-UX. This collection of survey-responses will be distributed to attendees in form of a printed booklet and will serve as the base for discussion on-site and possible future exchange. Theoretical and empirical background information will be provided by the workshop organizers.
The development of solution possibilities will sharpen awareness on the one hand, but at the same time hopefully decrease the threshold to evaluate UX in practice later on. A variety of disciplinary backgrounds (design, computer science, psychology, marketing, neuroscience, biology, etc) is welcomed and intended to amplify the discourse of knowledge, ideas, perspectives, and positions. We would like to initiate a long term exchange of information and experiences between participants; starting out by experiencing scientific fun together.
