Emotional Design
This work addresses emotional design for researchers and industrial practitioners, but it is incremental as it builds on existing models and methods.
The paper tackles the problem of emotional design by proposing a systematic process including affective-cognitive needs elicitation, analysis, and fulfillment, with an updated review of methods to guide researchers and practitioners.
Emotional design has been well recognized in the domain of human factors and ergonomics. In this chapter, we reviewed related models and methods of emotional design. We are motivated to encourage emotional designers to take multiple perspectives when examining these models and methods. Then we proposed a systematic process for emotional design, including affective-cognitive needs elicitation, affective-cognitive needs analysis, and affective-cognitive needs fulfillment to support emotional design. Within each step, we provided an updated review of the representative methods to support and offer further guidance on emotional design. We hope researchers and industrial practitioners can take a systematic approach to consider each step in the framework with care. Finally, the speculations on the challenges and future directions can potentially help researchers across different fields to further advance emotional design.