The document summarizes Michihito Mizutani's guest lecture at Aalto University on interaction design and emotion. The lecture included an introduction to interaction design, understanding emotion in design through case studies, and a group activity for students to design seductive user experiences with everyday objects. Students then presented their ideas to the class. The document provided context on defining interaction design and behaviors that shape everyday life through prototypes. It also explored understanding emotion in design using examples from literature and case studies on products for emotional communication and designing seductive user experiences.

1. Designing interactions with emotion
Guest lecture at School of Art and Design, Aalto university on October 11th, 2010
Michihito Mizutani
Interaction Designer
MeeGo Computers UX team | Nokia

2. 1) Introduction to interaction design
2) Understanding emotion
3) Case study 1: Emotional communication
4) Case study 2: Seductive user experience
5) Group work
6) Presentations

3. What is interaction design?

4. What is IxD?
“The art of facilitating interactions between humans
through products and services.”
Designing for interaction, Dan Saffer

5. What is IxD?
Form Content
Industrial designers Information architects
Graphic designers Copywriters
Animators
Sound designers
Behavior
Interaction designers
About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design
Alan Cooper, Robert Reimann, and David Cronin

6. What is IxD?
Designing Interactions, Bill Moggridge

7. What is IxD?
Web as software interface Web as hyper text system
The Elements of User Experience, Jesse James Garrett

8. What is IxD?
“It is about shaping our everyday life through digital
artifacts – for work, for play, and for entertainment.”
Interview with Gillian Crampton Smith
Designing Interactions, Bill Moggridge

9. How do designers define behaviors and
shape everyday life?
Prototypes

10. Let us shape your life by prototyping"
Designing a bathroom

11. Let us shape your life by prototyping"
A very ordinary bathroom.

12. Let us shape your life by prototyping"
What kind of room is this?"
How do you feel then?

13. 2) Understanding emotion
(work in progress)

14. Understanding emotion
Visceral level people will be strongly biased toward
appearance, behavioral people towards function, usability, and
how much they feel in control during use. And Reflective level
people (who would seldom admit to be one), are heavily
biased by brand name, by prestige, and by the value a product
brings to their self-image – hence the sale of high-priced
whiskey, watches,, automobiles, and home furnishings.
Emotional Design, Donald A. Norman

15. Understanding emotion
The four pleasures
Physio-pleasure is to do with the body and with pleasures
derived from the sensory organs.
Socio-pleasure is the enjoyment derived from relationship with
others.
Psycho-pleasure pertains to people’s cognitive and emotional
reactions.
Ideo-pleasure pertains to people’s values. Tiger (1992) reefers
to the pleasures derived from ‘theoretical’ entities such as
books, music and art.
Designing Pleasurable products, Patrick W. Jordan

16. Understanding emotion
Other psychologically motivated metrics have been promoted
to estimate the optimal usability of an interface, with cognitive
viscosity being one of these factors( Green , 1989). Viscosity in
its conventional sense is a highly tactile term, synonymous
with stickiness
The antiusability Manifesto, John Lenarcic

17. Understanding emotion
With living object the sense of attachment grows over time
and is strengthened, as in real human relationships, by effort
and engagement, but eventually will also fade with changes in
life. Living objects are generally irreplaceable.
Meaningful relationships with products
Katja Battarbee and Tuuli Mattelmäki

19. 3) Case study 1
Emotional communication: products that
connect family and friends

20. Imagine that you travel to Japan for the first
time and you see a Japanese person like me on
the street,

21. Wearing a Jussi paita.

22. Common objects and interests can connect
people and even encourage their
communication.

23. Demo videos
Talking glass
http://michihito.com/11talkingglass_mov1.html
Sharing the moment
http://michihito.com/11sharingmoment_mov1.html
Narrowcasting TV
http://michihito.com/11narrowcastingtv_mov1.html

24. 3) Case study 2
Design for seductive user experiences

25. The most typical design method:
Interaction design provides solutions suitable
to the context and environment where the user
is situated.
But here is another method:
Interaction design can also recall certain
contexts and environments that the
users have experienced in the past.

26. Mugen toy
(Ever-lasting toy)

27. Coverflow Live wallpaper
www.youtube.com/watch?v=afy5BEdRz8A
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEsZXHS7J0I

28. These examples are more seductive even
if it’s less functional.

29. Demo on Nokia N900
Slide the keyboard in and out!
www.vimeo.com/15763921

30. When did you spin the device?

31. When did you spin a bottle?

32. Design guidelines
Think of the simplest interactions in everyday life e.g. turn pages on a book.
Think of interactions that don’t trigger functions.
Prototype to illustrate expected experiences. Make a few iterations.
Thinking one more unique value after first successful prototype.
Do not expect WOW experience, search for GRIN experience.

33. 4) Group work
Design seductive user experience with
everyday object

34. Group work / presentations
Group work ( - 16:00)
Make groups with 3 people.
Create one idea on seductive user experience.
Presentations (16:00 – 17:00)
Each group has 3 min.
Example everyday objects
- Umbrella - Chair
- Wallet - Cloth
- Keys - Watch
- Mobile phone
- Cups
- Pens
- Notes
- Ring

35. Thank you