Blog — Experience and Interaction Design

It's trailertime again!

Publications, TalksMarc HassenzahlFebruary 20, 2013experience design, human-computer interaction, industrial design, interaction design, user experience

All You Need is Love

A wealth of evidence suggests that love, closeness, and intimacy—in short relatedness—are important for people’s psychological well-being. Nowadays, however, couples are often forced to live apart.

PublicationsMarc HassenzahlJanuary 24, 2013experience design, human-computer interaction, interaction design, relatedness, user experience

Freude durch Technik? Vom Vermeiden von Problemen zum freudvollen Erlebnis

Keynote auf der tekom-Frühjahrstagung 2012.

PublicationsMarc HassenzahlNovember 20, 2012experience design, human-computer interaction, industrial design, interaction design, user experience

Towards happiness: Possibility-driven design

This chapter suggests possibility-driven design as an alternative to the common problem-driven approach. A first part explores the concept of "possibilities" and how it relates to happiness and well-being. We further develop the notion of designing for the pleasurable life and the good life through a number of exemplary design cases.

PublicationsMarc HassenzahlNovember 19, 2012experience design, happiness, human-computer interaction, industrial design, interaction design, possibility-driven design, transformational products, user experience

Character Grid: a simple Repertory Grid technique for Web Site analysis and evaluation

PublicationsMarc HassenzahlOctober 12, 2012experience design, human-computer interaction, methods, repertory grid, user experience

Copenhagen, here we come!

The NordiCHI conference 2012 is coming closer. Eva Lenz and Sarah Diefenbach are looking forward to visit the conference (and beautiful Copenhagen!).

Publications, Shows, TalksEva LenzOctober 10, 2012aesthetics of interaction, experience design, human-computer interaction, industrial design, NordiCHI

Reconstructing experiences with iScale

PublicationsMarc HassenzahlOctober 9, 2012human-computer interaction, iScale, longitudinal, user experience

Zurück aus Konstanz, zurück von der Mensch & Computer 2012 [updt]

Danke für interessante Beiträge, viel Feedback und gute Gespräche. Wir sehen uns nächstes Jahr in Bremen!

Publications, Shows, TalksMatthias LaschkeSeptember 14, 20122012, aesthetics of interaction, human-computer interaction, interaction design, Konstanz, mensch und computer, methods

User-Experience from an Inference Perspective

PublicationsMarc HassenzahlSeptember 13, 2012aesthetics, beauty, human-computer interaction, inference, user experience

Cars and experience [new link]

PublicationsMarc HassenzahlAugust 28, 2012automotive, BMW, experience design, human-computer interaction, industrial design, interaction design

Everything can be beautiful

I argue that everything can be beautiful ... as long as somebody with authority claims it to be.

PublicationsMarc HassenzahlJuly 4, 2012aesthetics, beauty, human-computer interaction, industrial design, interaction design, user experience

The Chocolate Machine at BloombergBusinessweek and Reveries.com [updt]

Based on our Note at CHI'12, The Chocolate Machine arouses some interest. Marc talked to Drake Bennett of BloombergBusinessweek. Additionally, Tim Manners of Reveries.com posted an short note about the Chocolate Machine. Additionally The Food Chanel posted some lines about the Chocolate Machine.

Publications, TalksMatthias LaschkeJune 10, 2012aesthetic of friction, captology, CHI, persuasive technology, self-control, self-regulation, transformational objects, transformational products, willpower