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Bill Moggridge’s new challenge: “A Big Change”
That’s how Bill, Design & Emotion friend, referred to it in his email. He has been named director of the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York, starting in March 2010.
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The Science of Fun: How Fun Helps Improve Your Design
Another friend of Design & Emotion, Frank Spillers wrote up some excellent comments to the 10 Rules to Augment Fun and Beauty in Interaction Design and how fun can help you improve design. Below is a repost from his blog.
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Snapje – a concept to practice emotion recognition in relation to the context for children with autism
Journals and newspapers have been full of it lately; There are more children with a diagnosis in the spectrum of autism nowadays. Recent expectations are that one out of a hundred children have a form of autism. A reason for this is that the social side of life becomes more important. At primary school children already have to work in groups from a young age. This is difficult for children with autism.
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workshop: RKS Brings Predictable Magic to Interaction10
RKS team members Harnish Jani, Deepa Prahalad, and Ko Nakatsu will be conducting a workshop entitled “Predictable Magic: Designing Emotional Interactions and Business Results” on February 4th at Interaction10 in Savannah, GA. Sounds pretty interesting to me!
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D&E2010 conference – Call for Papers revised!
Are you considering to submit a paper for the Design & Emotion Conference in Chicago this year? Please read the revised call for papers with important additions such as a special topic session and the extended deadline (new deadline for full papers is March 15th!)
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SusaGroup’s ‘emotion battle’: iPad versus iPhone
Recent polls showed there were more non-buyers over buyers for the iPad. SusaGroup was curious how emotion fit into these opinions and let iPad battle it out against iPhone. Who won? Find out…
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Emotion Battle: How do you feel about the Academy Award Nominees’ movie trailers?
SusaGroup set out a new Emotion Battle. Last time people were asked to share how they felt with the iPad versus the iPhone. Now, you get the chance to watch the movie trailers of the Academy Award Nominees and share your feelings about them!
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The results are in: predicting Best Motion Picture based on emotion profile
Earlier this week I invited the readers of Design & Emotion to participate in a short Emotion Battle, set up by SusaGroup. By looking at the trailers of each Best Motion Picture nominee for Sunday’s Academy Awards, and indicating how it made you feel. Read the outcome here!
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Design of great importance to product’s (financial) performance
In Dutch magazine “Adformatie” I just noticed the article ‘Design stimulates product performance’. It states that the financial performance of a new product is better when there has been significant attention for design in the development process.
