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User experience - a research agenda
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The present introduction to the special issue on 'Empirical studies of the user experience' attempts to give a provisional answer to the question of what is meant by 'the user experience', and provides a cursory sketch of UX and how the authors think UX research will look like in the future.
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The Interplay of Beauty, Goodness, and Usability in Interactive Products
  • M. Hassenzahl
  • Psychology, Business
    Hum. Comput. Interact.
  • 1 December 2004
TLDR
The nature of beauty is rather self-oriented than goal-oriented, whereas goodness relates to both; both were related to each other as long as beauty and goodness stress the subjective valuation of a product.
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The Thing and I: Understanding the Relationship Between User and Product
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Even though the HCI community seems to embrace the notion that functionality and usability is just not enough, the authors are far from having a coherent understanding of what user experience actually is.
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Understanding, scoping and defining user experience: a survey approach
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The draft ISO definition on UX seems to be in line with the survey findings, although the issues of experiencing anticipated use and the object of UX will require further explication.
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User experience (UX): towards an experiential perspective on product quality
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This paper will present my particular perspective on UX and will discuss its implications for the field of Human-Computer Interaction.
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Needs, affect, and interactive products - Facets of user experience
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The Effect of Perceived Hedonic Quality on Product Appealingness
  • M. Hassenzahl
  • Business
    Int. J. Hum. Comput. Interact.
  • 1 December 2001
TLDR
The results replicate and qualify the key findings of Hassenzahl, Platz, et al. (2000) and lend further support to the model's notion of hedonic quality and its importance for subjective judgments of product appealingness.
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Hedonic and ergonomic quality aspects determine a software's appeal
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The results suggest that both quality aspects can be independently perceived by users and almost equally contributed to the appeal of the tested software prototypes.
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The Inference of Perceived Usability From Beauty
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The present study's main objective is to re-examine the relation between beauty and usability, that is, the implication that “what is beautiful is usable,” and adopted an inference perspective to qualify underlying processes to examine the possibility that, under the circumstances pertaining in most studies of this kind where participants have limited experience of using a website or product, the relationship between Beauty and usability is mediated by goodness.
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All You Need is Love: Current Strategies of Mediating Intimate Relationships through Technology
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This article provides a review of 143 published artifacts and presents six strategies used by designers/researchers to create a relatedness experience: Awareness, expressivity, physicalness, gift giving, joint action, and memories as starting points for the experience-oriented design of technology.
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