Design for Wellbeing, Happiness and Health

The chairs' editorial for the theme track of SIGWELL, the Design Research Society's Special Interest Group (SIG) focusing on Design for Wellbeing, Happiness and Health.

Natural language in measuring user emotions: A qualitative approach to quantitative survey-based emotion measurement

This paper presents an approach to developing surveys that measure user experiences with the use of natural everyday language. The common approach to develop questionnaires that measure experience is to translate theoretical factors into verbal survey items. This theory-based approach can impair the questionnaire’s ecological validity because...