Diseño positivo durante una pandemia: Redescubriendo el disfrute a través de actividades diarias

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...

Juegos para covid-19:: Una exploración basada en la necesidad de intervenciones gamificadas

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...

Book of Answers: Support the recognition and community psychological needs of teenagers who have lost their parents

In China’s hospice services, the focus is often on the patient, and the care of the family is neglected because of the system’s inadequacy. However, when families face the loss of their loved ones, the emergence of grief is unavoidable. Grieving itself is a normal phenomenon, but due to the untimely intervention, some people’s normal grief...

Beyond Maslow’s pyramid: Introducing a typology of thirteen fundamental needs for human-centered design

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...

The experience of autonomy with durable products

A study to understand the experience of autonomy with durable products was undertaken based on qualitative research. The study involved thirteen participants, who selected a durable product that enhanced autonomy. Using in-depth interviews, the map of experience and interaction properties the experience was studied. Our findings indicate that...