Pleasure with products : beyond usability / edited by William S. Green and Patrick W. Jordan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Green, W. S. (William S.)

Jordan, Patrick W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrial design.

New products.

Human engineering.

Physical Description:

vii, 390 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Taylor & Francis, 2002.

Contents:

Introduction Pleasure with Products: Beyond Usability 'Human Factors and Design' / Bill Green 1

Section 1 Beyond Usability

Chapter 1 Beauty in Usability: Forget about Ease of Use / K. Overbeeke, T. Djadjadiningrat, C. Hummels, S. Wensveen 9

Chapter 2 The Personalities of Products / P.W. Jordan 19

Chapter 3 Beyond Usability, Computer Playfulness / H.J. Noyes, R. Littledale 49

Chapter 4 The Basis of Product Emotions / P.M.A. Desmet, P.P.M. Hekkert 61

Chapter 5 Product Appearance and Consumer Pleasure / M. Creusen, D. Snelders 69

Chapter 6 Product Design for Consumer Taste / M. Kalviainen 77

Chapter 7 Pleasure versus Efficiency in User Interfaces: Towards an Involvement Framework / A. De Angeli, P. Lynch, G.I. Johnson 97

Chapter 8 The Scenario of Sensory Encounter: Cultural Factors in Sensory-Aesthetic Experience / A.S. Macdonald 113

Chapter 9 Emergence of Pleasure: Communities of Interest and New Luxury Products / P. Reinmoeller 125

Chapter 10 Carrying the Pleasure of Books into the Design of the Electronic Book / S. Ruecker 135

Chapter 11 Difficulties and Pleasure? / P.-H. Dejean 147

Chapter 12 Envisioning Future Needs: From Pragmatics to Pleasure / J.V.H. Bonner, J. M. Porter 151

Section 2 Design Techniques

Chapter 13 Designing Experience: Whether to Measure Pleasure or Just Tune In? / J. Fulton Suri 161

Chapter 14 Using Video Ethnography to Inform and Inspire User-Centred Design / K. Taylor, M. Bontoft, M. Galer Flyte 175

Chapter 15 Linking Product Properties to Pleasure: The Sensorial Quality Assessment Method

SEQUAM / L. Bonapace 189

Chapter 16 Design Based on Kansei / S. Lee, A. Harada, P.J. Stappers 219

Chapter 17 Participative Image-Based Research as a Basis for New Product Development / S. Boess, D. Durling, C. Lebbon, C. Maggs 231

Chapter 18 Emotional Responses to Virtual Prototypes in the Design Evaluation of a Product Concept / K. Battarbee, S. Sade 247

Chapter 19 Understanding Attributes that Contribute to Pleasure in Product Use / A.-L. Hauge-Nilsen, M. Galer Flyte 257

Chapter 20 Measuring Experience of Interactive Characters / K. Hook, P. Persson, M. Sjolinder 271

Chapter 21 Understanding People and Pleasure-Based Human Factors / B.H. Jevnaker 283

Chapter 22 Mapping the User-Product-Relationship (in Product Design) / R. Kahmann, L. Henze 297

Chapter 23 Cooking up Pleasurable Products: Understanding Designers / S. Rutherford 307

Chapter 24 Prolonging the Pleasure / G. Davis 315

Chapter 25 Comfort and Pleasure / D.A. Coelho, S. Dahlman 321

Chapter 26 Collecting Stories on User Experiences to Inspire Design - a Pilot / A. Makela, T. Mattelmaki 333

Chapter 27 Usability Perception / R. Emmanuele, B. Simionato 345

Chapter 28 Applying Evaluation Methods to Future Digital TV Services / M. Maguire 353

Chapter 29 Activity and Designing Pleasurable Interaction with Everyday Artifacts / V. Popovic 367.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415237041

OCLC:

47915673