Funology

Theories and Concepts.- to Section 1.- Let’s Make Things Engaging.- The Engineering of Experience.- The Thing and I: Understanding the Relationship Between User and Product.- Making Sense of Experience.- Enjoyment: Lessons from Karasek.- Fun on the Phone: The Situated Experience of Recreational Telephone Conferences.- The Enchantments of Technology.- The Semantics of Fun: Differentiating Enjoyable Eeperiences.- Methods and Techniques.- User Empowerment and the Fun Factor.- to Section 2.- Measuring Emotion: Development and Application of an Instrument to Measure Emotional Responses to Products.- That’s Entertainment!.- Designing for Fun: User-Testing Case Studies.- Playing Games in the Emotional Space.- Deconstructing Experience: Pulling Crackers Apart.- Designing Engaging Experiences with Children and Artists.- Building Narrative Experiences for Children Through Real Time Media Manipulation: Pogo World.- Case Studies in Design.- to Section 3.- The Joy of Telephony: Designing Appealing Interactions.- From Usable to Enjoyable Information Displays.- Fun for All: Promoting Engagement and Paraticipation in Community Programming Projects.- Storytelling & Conversation to Improve the Fun Factor in Software Applications.- Deconstructing Ghosts.- Interfacing the Narrative Experience.- Whose Line is It Anyway? Enabling Creative Appropriation of Television.- The Interactive Installation ISH: In Search of Resonant Human Product Interaction.- Fun with Your Alarm Clock: Designing for Engaging Experiences Through Emotionally Rich Interaction.