This model from Russell tries to explain the eliciting of emotions and is based around core affect. It’s the first model covered in my thesis and I think it has many interesting definitions and points of view that are useful to support my further research. It’s a complex model as it approaches emotions as prototypical […]

It has been a while since my last post, simply because I wanted to read more and more and not bother about reporting my findings to (digital) paper. This week the time has come to begin structuring my thoughts and readings. As the subject of my thesis covers many different aspects I found it necessary […]

The first time I met the subject of designing for emotion thoroughly has been one-and-a-half years ago and it hasn’t left my attention since. I had to redesign an electric toothbrush ‘for emotions’ and develop a design method to do so.The method is basically about trying to recognize the emotions and social processes involved with […]

This blog is made as a diary for my master graduation assignment which is described in About: The Project
I’ve started working on the project this week and I’m currently reading the papers from the Design and Emotion Conference. Those cover an interesting variety of themes that I’m studying without making too many assumptions. That process […]