The recent announcement of the iPhone, equipped with motion and proximity sensing capabilities was only the first in a rash of new phones that can sense and respond to the environment…
Category: Emotional Products
Donald Norman has a post on his blog about how he helped H&R Block create their new tax software tango based on Emotional Design principles…
PC World lists the 20 Most Annoying Tech Products. And for some reason, their #1 choice reminds me of Seinfeld and Grunge…
As the emotional effects of video games become more and more apparent, the games themselves are diversifying to occupy different emotional “niches”…
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…
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.
In northern climates, some people suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder (or S.A.D.), a mood disorder that causes depressive symptoms…
Medical News Today has an article about how pharmaceutical advertising relies on appeals to consumer’s emotions rather than on providing information…
The Christian Science Monitor has an article on recent advances in affective computing…