Human-Computer Interaction

From Usability to Enjoyment

By: Mark A. Blythe, Kees Overbeeke, Andrew F. Monk

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Hardcover | 31 March 2003

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This book reflects the move in Human Computer Interaction studies from standard usability concerns towards a wider set of problems to do with fun, enjoyment, aesthetics and the experience of use.

Traditionally HCI has been concerned with work and task based applications but as digital technologies proliferate in the home fun becomes an important issue. There is an established body of knowledge and a range of techniques and methods for making products and interfaces usable, but far less is known about how to make them enjoyable.

Perhaps in the future there will be a body of knowledge and a set of techniques for assessing the pleasure of interaction that will be as thorough as those that currently assess usability. This book is a first step towards that. It brings together a range of researchers from academia and industry to provide answers. Contributors include Alan Dix, Jacob Nielsen and Mary Beth Rosson as well as a number of other researchers from academia and industry.

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Authors and Affiliations	p. iii
Preface - How to Use this Book	p. vii
Foreword	p. xi
Introduction - From Usability to Enjoyment	p. xiii
Theories and Concepts
Introduction to Section 1	p. 3
Let's Make Things Engaging	p. 7
The Engineering of Experience	p. 19
The Thing and I: Understanding the Relationship Between User and Product	p. 31
Making Sense of Experience	p. 43
Enjoyment: Lessons from Karasek	p. 55
Fun on the Phone: The Situated Experience of Recreational Telephone Conferences	p. 67
The Enchantments of Technology	p. 81
The Semantics of Fun: Differentiating Enjoyable Experiences	p. 91
Methods and Techniques
User Empowerment and the Fun Factor: An interview with Jakob Nielsen	p. 103
Introduction to Section 2	p. 107
Measuring Emotion: Development and Application of an Instrument to Measure Emotional Responses to Products	p. 111
That's Entertainment!	p. 125
Designing for Fun: User-Testing Case Studies	p. 137
Playing Games in the Emotional Space	p. 151
Deconstructing Experience: Pulling Crackers Apart	p. 165
Designing Engaging Experiences with Children and Artists	p. 179
Building Narrative Experiences for Children Through Real Time Media Manipulation: POGO World	p. 189
Case Studies in Design
Introduction to Section 3	p. 203
The Joy of Telephony: Designing Appealing Interactions	p. 205
From Usable to Enjoyable Information Displays	p. 213
Fun for All: Promoting Engagement and Participation in Community Programming Projects	p. 223
Storytelling & Conversation to Improve the Fun Factor in Software Applications	p. 233
Deconstructing Ghosts	p. 243
Interfacing the Narrative Experience	p. 249
Whose Line is it Anyway? Enabling Creative Appropriation of Television	p. 257
The Interactive Installation ISH: in Search of Resonant Human Product Interaction	p. 265
Fun with Your Alarm Clock: Designing for Engaging Experiences through Emotionally Rich Interaction	p. 275
Integrated Bibliography	p. 283
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