Funology in Interaction Design

Hi Kunal -

I would start with Daniel Goleman, "Emotional Intelligence" (Bloomsbury,
1995)

Funology: From Usability to Enjoyment (edited by Blyth, Overbeek, Monk, and
Wright, 2004)

Gitte Lindgaard, Gaty Fernandess, Cathy Dudek, "Attention Web Designers: you
have 50 milliseconds to make a good first impression!" Behavior and
Information Technology 25, 2 (March-April 2006): 115-126

See Chapter 2 in "Designing Web Navigation," by James Kalback - pages 45-50
deal with designing for emotions in information seeking/navigation (and a
very good introduction to this),

The Information Search Process (ISP) models searching for information, but
takes emotions into account, by Carol Kuhltau. See:
Carol C. Kuhltau, "The Tole of Experience in the Information Search Process
of an Early Career Information Worker: Perceptions of Uncertainty,
Complexity, Construction, and Sources." Journal of the American Society for
Information Science 50, 5 (1991):399-412

This is should help in your research :-)

--
~ will

"Where you innovate, how you innovate,
and what you innovate are design problems"

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Will Evans | User Experience Architect
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On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Kunal Kapoor <kunalkapoor1975 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I am trying to gather references, study material, examples in interaction
> design on the theme - 'Funology in Interaction Design'.
>
>

<wkevans4 at gmail.com>

Hi Kunal,
In addition to Will's recommendations, I advise you to have a look at the
special issue on Funology, of ACM Interactions magazine
Volume 11 , Issue 5 (September + October
2004)<http://portal.acm.org/toc.cfm?id=1015530&type=issue&coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&idx=J373&part=magazine&WantType=Magazines&title=interactions&CFID=63753773&CFTOKEN=58151202>

ISSN:1072-5520

cheers,
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Pelin ATASOY

PhD Student, Research Assistant
Middle East Technical University
Faculty of Architecture
Department of Industrial Design
www.id.metu.edu.tr

METU-BILTIR-UTEST Product Usability Unit
www.utest.metu.edu.tr

tel: +90 312 210 4220

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Kunal Kapoor <kunalkapoor1975 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to gather references, study material, examples in interaction
> design on the theme - 'Funology in Interaction Design'.

'the Design & Emotion society raises issues and facilitates dialogue
among practitioners, researchers, and industry, in order to integrate
salient themes of emotional experience into the design profession.'
http://www.designandemotion.org/

Victor