Designing for Positive Emotions: Issues and Emerging Research Directions

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...

Nuances of emotions in product development: Seven key opportunities identified by design professionals

Embodied Typology of Positive Emotions: The Development of a Tool to Facilitate Emotional Granularity in Design

This paper introduces a tool that has been developed to facilitate emotional granularity in design: ‘Embodied Typology of Positive Emotions’. Emotional granularity reflects individual differences in the ability to precisely represent and interpret one’s own and others’ emotional states, referring to distinct emotion words rather than merely to a...