Title :
Smile-Encouraging Digital Appliances
Author :
Tsujita, Hitomi ; Rekimoto, Jun
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Abstract :
Can technology influence people´s mood? This department explores how we might induce emotion through the design of products and user interfaces. The authors describe different ideas and prototypes for motivating people to smile, which they argue will make people happier.
Keywords :
human computer interaction; human factors; product design; digital appliances; product design; user interfaces; Behavioral science; Emotion recognition; Human factors; Psychology; User interfaces; HappinessCounter; behavior change; emotion; health; pervasive computing; prototypes;
Journal_Title :
Pervasive Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MPRV.2013.73
