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Affective Design Theory Emotional Services

LEMTool – Experiment #1: Results

Kevin Capota has posted the results of the first experiment with the LEMTool. His blog displays three emotion scorecards that rate three websites…

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Effects of Affect Emotion & Business

The Emotional Side of Security – Part 2

Wired News has an excerpt from Bruce Schneier’s essay on The Psychology of Security

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Emotional Products Emotional Services Opinions

Robots and Ethics

The South Korean government has forecast that every South Korean will own a robot by 2020. Information like this has prompted the drafting of a Robots Ethics Charter…

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Effects of Affect Emotion & Business Opinions

Disappointment Beats Exceeding Expectations

Medical News Today has an article from the Journal of Consumer Research about how disappointment tends to have more impact on perceptions of a product or service than when our expectations have been exceeded…

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Effects of Affect Emotion & Business Persuasion

Emotions Dominate Decision-Making

An article on USA Today discusses how a study in the field of neuroeconomics is offering some confirmination of recent observations by neuroscientists regarding emotion’s dominant role in the brain’s decision-making process…

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Emotion & Business Emotional Products Opinions

Robots and Emotion

An article on BBC News discusses a multi-country, European initiative called Feelix Growing that is focusing on developing technologies to help robots learn and interpret human emotional responses and behavior.

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Effects of Affect Emotion & Business Opinions

The Emotional Side of Security – Part 1

A recent article on Dark Reading explains how security experts are realizing that internet security is both “a reality and a feeling”…

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Emotion & Business Opinions

A Top Trend for 2007: Status

Trendwatching.com has an article about how status will be a top trend for 2007. But we’re not just talking about status in the traditional sense of owning and displaying expensive brands…

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Effects of Affect Emotional Products Opinions

Seasonal Affective Disorder and Simplicity

In northern climates, some people suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder (or S.A.D.), a mood disorder that causes depressive symptoms…

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Introduction Opinions

Redesigning the affectivedesign Banner

You may have noticed that the banner has changed. The original banner graphic was a placeholder that wound up remaining on the site a little longer than I had intended…

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Effects of Affect Emotional Products Opinions

Video Games That Improve Emotional Health

Reuters has an article about how the success of games that help to improve the mental abilities of players is inspiring developers to create a new genre of video games…

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