Reuters has an article that has also appeared on CBC News on how video games provide more than just fun, satisfying deeper psychological and emotional needs…
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Season’s Greetings from affective design
As 2006 wraps up, I’d like to wish you all a great holiday season!…
Science News has an article about how positive emotions reduce the emergence of cold symptoms…
A recent study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that positive moods foster creative thought…
Creative Generalist has an interview with Jane Fulton Suri from IDEO about tapping into what she calls the “empathic economy”…
Colour is one aspect of an interface that prominently comes into play when we are discussing design and emotion for products, software and websites. As with anything that evokes emotion, there are both conscious and unconscious processes involved…
New Scientist has an article about how making complex decisions by relying on the unconscious mind results in more satisfaction…
Another way to describe the relationship between emotions is in terms of the relationship between two dimensions; value and arousal…
NY Magazine has an article about burnout in the workplace. The article is notable in that it talks about how one of the effects of the “always on” economy is…
Emotions affect how we feel, how we think, what we say and what we do. We represent the objects we encounter and the experiences we have in…