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Emotions & Information Opinions Persuasion

Visualize and Communicate Information Persuasively

When it comes to communicating information in a way that resonates persuasively with people, it’s important to tailor how that information is displayed…

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Emotional Products Opinions

PC World’s 20 Most Annoying Tech Products

PC World lists the 20 Most Annoying Tech Products. And for some reason, their #1 choice reminds me of Seinfeld and Grunge

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Emotion & UX Emotional Products Opinions

Happiness, Engagement and Love in Video Games

As the emotional effects of video games become more and more apparent, the games themselves are diversifying to occupy different emotional “niches”…

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Emotion & UX Opinions Presentations

Creating Pleasurable Interfaces with Stephen P. Anderson

Stephen P. Anderson from PoetPainter has posted a presentation on Slideshare entitled “Creating Pleasurable Interfaces: Getting From Tasks to Experiences”…

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Effects of Affect Emotions & Health Opinions

Expressing Love May Lower Your Cholesterol Levels

How can designing for emotion help improve medical care? An article on Medical News Today describes a study in Human Communication Research that suggests expressing love may help lower cholesterol…

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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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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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