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Kermavnar, T. (author), Desmet, P.M.A. (author)Existing studies of technology supporting meditation habit formation mainly focus on mobile applications which support users via reminders. A potentially more effective source of motivation could be contextual cues provided by meaningful objects in meaningful locations. This longitudinal mixed-methods 8-week study explored the effectiveness of...journal article 2024
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Desmet, P.M.A. (author), Xue, H. (author), Xin, X (author)This paper introduces a five-day intensive course, conducted over five years from 2018 to 2022, aimed at teaching emotion-driven design (EDD) to graduate students with diverse disciplinary backgrounds at Beijing Normal University. EDD is the practice of designing products or services that are informed by user or consumer emotions and/or aim to...journal article 2023
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Liedgren, Johan (author), Desmet, P.M.A. (author), Gaggioli, Andrea (author)As ubiquitous technology is increasingly mediating our relationships with the world and others, we argue that the sublime is struggling to find room in product design primarily aimed at commercial and transactional goals such as speed and efficiency. We suggest a new category of products to promote deeper and more meaningful experiences,...journal article 2023
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Kermavnar, T. (author), Visch, V.T. (author), Desmet, P.M.A. (author)Background: The COVID-19 pandemic introduced an urgent need for effective strategies to disseminate crucial knowledge and improve people’s subjective well-being. Complementing more conventional approaches to knowledge dissemination, game-based interventions were developed to create awareness and educate people about the pandemic, hoping to...journal article 2023
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Desmet, P.M.A. (author)Het was zo’n zonnige lentedag; heerlijk om lekker buiten te zijn. Ik zat binnen, in een vergadering – met de nodige moeite om mijn aandacht erbij te houden. Liever keek ik door het raam naar kersenbloesems. Afgeleid raken, wegdromen of<br/>juist onrustig zijn en niet stil kunnen zitten. Herkenbaar? Vast wel; iedereen heeft wel eens moeite om...journal article 2022
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Desmet, P.M.A. (author), Orçun, S.E. (author)The covid-19 pandemic has led to a worldwide health crisis with a major negative impact on the subjective well-being oflarge populations. over time, people, including non-vulnerable groups such as healthy young adults, were found to entera state of languishing: neither depressed nor flourishing, but stuck in between. the current manuscript...journal article 2022
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Kermavnar, T. (author), Desmet, P.M.A. (author)the covid-19 pandemic resulted in various unpleasant affective responses and dysfunctional behaviours, which created an urgent demand for effective interventions to support people’s coping and resilience. in addition to common forms of intervention, alternative approaches have also been explored, including the use of covid-19-themed games to...journal article 2022
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Desmet, P.M.A. (author)Gisteren zat ik tijdens mijn wekelijkse teamvergadering een tijd lang gedachteloos aan mijn ring te frummelen. Een beetje draaien en een beetje wiebelen. Dat doe ik wel vaker. Herkenbaar? Het overkomt ons allemaal: klikken met je pen, wippen met je potlood, spelen met een haarlok, of tikken met je vingers. Frummelen, friemelen of frutselen –...journal article 2022
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Esnaf-Uslu, P. (author), Desmet, P.M.A. (author), Schifferstein, Hendrik N.J. (author)This article introduces the concept of mood sensitivity: a service agent's ability to detect mood during service encounters and customize their interaction style accordingly, with the purpose of improving service encounters as a whole. We report on an experience sampling study that explored the role that mood plays in service provision....journal article 2022
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Sönmez, A. (author), Desmet, P.M.A. (author), Romero Herrera, N.A. (author)Even though group mood has a significant impact on organizational functioning, there is no typology available to describe distinct group moods. We propose that designing products and services to facilitate beneficial group mood experiences requires a granular and experience-oriented understanding of the phenomenon. This article introduces an...journal article 2022
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Thoring, K.C. (author), Mueller, Roland M. (author), Desmet, P.M.A. (author), Badke-Schaub, P.G. (author)The theoretical understanding of design knowledge is a crucial concern for research in the design discipline. This article extends the rich existing research on design knowledge by providing a unifying model of design knowledge. The insights are derived from a rigorous review of existing literature. The resulting model presents an original...journal article 2022
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Shiota, M.N. (author), Sauter, D.S. (author), Desmet, P.M.A. (author)Positive affect and emotion have become major topics in behavioral science, of growing importance in basic and applied research. A broad review of the literature reveals multiple, theoretically distinct constructs associated with the terms ‘positive affect’ and ‘positive emotion,’ sometimes conflated across this body of work. This article...journal article 2021
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Desmet, P.M.A. (author), Sauter, D.S. (author), Shiota, M.N. (author)Positive emotion typologies, that is, classifications of positiveemotions into conceptually distinct categories or ‘types’ according to their properties, can clarify and simplify the<br/>complex structure of positive emotion space. In this review, we introduce three key evaluative criteria for such typologies: comprehensiveness, distinctiveness,...journal article 2021
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Thoring, K.C. (author), Gonçalves, M. (author), Mueller, Roland M. (author), Desmet, P.M.A. (author)The question of how the physical work environment can affect creativity is gaining interest among companies and educational institutions. This paper introduces ten propositions outlining possible relationships between spatial characteristics and creative work. The propositions were developed following a grounded-theory approach based on nine...journal article 2021
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Ozkaramanli, D (author), Desmet, P.M.A. (author), Ozcan Vieira, E. (author)Personal dilemmas are inspiring phenomena, which can stimulate design creativity and reflection on users’ goals and values. This paper aims to provide an overview of the main challenges involved in Dilemma-Driven Design (DDD). We first introduce three main activities performed when designing with dilemmas: Identifying dilemmas (discovery),...journal article 2020
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Yoon, J.K. (author), Pohlmeyer, A.E. (author), Desmet, P.M.A. (author), Kim, C (author)ABSTRACT Central to the present paper is the question of how designers can be supported to deliberately facilitate positive emotional experiences. Related to this, the paper provides an overview of the research on design for positive emotions, its issues, and opportunities for further investigations. The practical relevance of transcending the...journal article 2020
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Fokkinga, S.F. (author), Desmet, P.M.A. (author), Hekkert, P.P.M. (author)This paper introduces a framework for impact-centered design that maps the direct and indirect psychological, social, and behavioral effects resulting from human-product interactions, as well as the strategic pathways that designers utilize to achieve these effects. The framework was created through a series of expert workshops in which 186...journal article 2020
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Desmet, P.M.A. (author), Fokkinga, S.F. (author)This paper introduces a design-focused typology of psychological human needs that includes 13 fundamental needs and 52 sub-needs (four for each fundamental need). The typology was developed to provide a practical understanding of psychological needs as a resource for user-centered design practice and research with a focus on user experience and...journal article 2020
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Xue, H. (author), Desmet, P.M.A. (author), Fokkinga, S.F. (author)This paper introduces a holistic typology of 20 mood states that are presented with a componential approach, describing six aspects: subjective feeling, perception, reaction, tendency, liking, and disliking. In addition, each mood is illustrated with a short example narrative and a collection of four images. The typology was generated by...journal article 2020
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Thoring, K.C. (author), Desmet, P.M.A. (author), Badke-Schaub, P.G. (author)This paper provides an overview of the state-of-the-art research about creative work and learning environments. We conducted a systematic literature search within the Scopus database and identified a total of 70 relevant sources discussing creative spaces within academic, practice, or other innovation environments. Among the included sources...journal article 2019