Dear Colleagues
We would like to invite paper submissions to the
First International Workshop on “Understanding Delight in Design: User Experience, Technologies and Tools”
BCS HCI People and Computers XXVI, 12-14th September 2012
University of Birmingham on 10th September 2012.
Paper Submission Deadline: June 18th 2012
Website: http://www.serena.ac.uk/delight-in-design-workshop/
Aim of the workshop:
Drawing on the established fields of usability, user experience and interaction design, this workshop aims to bring together people to discuss the concept of ‘delight’ in interface, product and interaction design. ‘Delight’ or ‘delightful’ design is, we argue, an aspirational quality that the HCI community would do well to consider when designing and evaluating interfaces. Open-mindedness and designing for emotion seem critical aspects of a broader call or desire for design which is ‘delightful’; an experience which engages the user more fully, an experience which provokes ‘ensoulment’, a term coined by Nelson and Stolterman to describe an emotional response to a product which results in a deeply moving feeling of being significantly changed.… read more. “Call: First International Workshop on ‘Understanding Delight in Design: User Experience, Technologies and Tools’ (BCS HCI 2012)”