Plotting affect and premises for use in aesthetic interaction design: towards evaluation of the everyday.

Kettley, S.; Smyth, M.

Abstract

This short paper presents an experimental approach to the difficulty of evaluating interactive systems as artefacts for everyday life. The problem arises from the event-like nature of the user-centred evaluation session, as distinct from ‘being’ or the ‘ongoing flow’ of daily life, and from the dynamic complexity of the lifeworlds of users in human centred design approaches. In analysing the data from a recent project investigating the aesthetic and utilitarian figurations of a wireless system of computational jewellery, it was found that the participants made references to a range of notional lifeworlds, and that the premises for use attached to these varied in type. An overview of the evaluation procedure, including pre and post task sessions with the user group, is given, and the results from the project discussed.

• Conference Name: HCI Conference 2006
• Start Date: Sep 11, 2006
• End Date: Sep 15, 2006
• Publication Date: 2007
• Deposit Date: Jun 20, 2008
• Publisher: BMC
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 17-22
• Series Title: BCS conference series
• Book Title: People and computers XX Engage : proceedings of HCI 2006
• Chapter Number: 1
• ISBN: 9781846285882 9781846286643
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-664-3
• Keywords: User experience; lifeworlds; premises for use; designing for the everyday; meaning making; evaluation; wearable computing; computational jewellery
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/1853
• Additional Information: 'HCI06: Engage' is the 20th annual British HCI Group conference.