{"title":"Measuring product happiness","authors":"I. Kamp, P. Desmet","doi":"10.1145/2559206.2581274","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The broadening of scope from usability to user experience we have witnessed in the CHI community represents a shift to a more holistic appreciation of how objects and technology can be purposeful to the people that use them. A recent extension of this development is to also pay attention to the question how technology affects the subjective wellbeing or happiness of users. This work in progress paper describes a theoretical model of product attribute categories relevant for product happiness and the development of a scale that aims at measuring the happiness impact of products based on this model. First, the hypothesized model is presented that proposes three different types of product qualities: pragmatic, hedonic and eudaimonic. Second, the development process of a happiness scale is explained. Finally an overview of the future steps is given.","PeriodicalId":125796,"journal":{"name":"CHI '14 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems","volume":"186 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2014-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"20","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"CHI '14 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2559206.2581274","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The broadening of scope from usability to user experience we have witnessed in the CHI community represents a shift to a more holistic appreciation of how objects and technology can be purposeful to the people that use them. A recent extension of this development is to also pay attention to the question how technology affects the subjective wellbeing or happiness of users. This work in progress paper describes a theoretical model of product attribute categories relevant for product happiness and the development of a scale that aims at measuring the happiness impact of products based on this model. First, the hypothesized model is presented that proposes three different types of product qualities: pragmatic, hedonic and eudaimonic. Second, the development process of a happiness scale is explained. Finally an overview of the future steps is given.