Journal
NEW IDEAS IN PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 47, Issue -, Pages 80-90Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.newideapsych.2017.03.010
Keywords
Aesthetics of interaction; Interaction attributes; Experiential qualities; Psychological needs; Aesthetic principle; Practices
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Designing an aesthetic interaction is an important issue for Interaction Design (ID) and Human Computer Interaction (HCI). While a number of frameworks exist, the experimental study of potential underlying principles remains rare. In this paper, we suggest that particular interaction attributes (e.g., fast) are systematically related to particular experiential qualities (e.g., feeling competent) and that interaction feels better if interaction matches the intended experience. A laboratory study (N = 32) explores this notion by testing two different ways of interacting within the same activity (opening a wine bottle) in two different experiential scenarios (focusing on relatedness, focusing on competence). Two corkscrews with different interaction profiles were used: one assumed to support a feeling of competence and the other to support relatedness. As expected, we found systematic shifts in preferences for specific corkscrews, differences in affective experience and in the relationships between interaction attributes and experiential qualities depending on the fit of interaction to the experience. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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