Negative Emotion Typology
To practice positive design, we need to understand the full spectrum of emotions. With this tool, you can compare, analyze, read comics, and watch movies about 36 different negative emotions.…
moreWORKSHOP: REVERSING NEGATIVE EMOTIONS
What is it? A full-day design workshop in which you work on a specific design case using four new emotional design approaches. The idea is that you get a free,…
moreNew tools page online
Following our official launch on 24 May 2013, we have unveiled the new DIoPD tools page. Each of the tools are intended to assist in some aspect of Positive Design.…
moreNew project started: Applying Reversal theory to redesign the air travel experience
On 1 March, three graduation students started a 6-9 months project in which they will apply Reversal theory to design a better in-flight experience for KLM, with a special focus…
moreDesign with Dilemmas
Our everyday life is saturated with personal dilemmas. Do I really want that extra piece of pie even though I am trying to maintain a slim waistline? Should I really…
moreThe happiness factor of products
Many companies claim to make you happy with their products for example Ola (ice creams) introduced “Happiness Stations”, Center parks tourism offers “A state of Happiness” and you will discover…
moreDarker shades of joy: The contribution of negative emotion in rich product experiences
This project investigates the opportunities to enrich product experiences with negative emotions. ‘User experience‘ is the combination of feelings, thoughts, motivations, and behaviors that people experience while interacting with a…
moreDesign for Loss
Project Team: • Wan Jou She: PhD candidate – w.she@tudelft.nl • Pieter Desmet: Promoter, professor – P.M.A.Desmet@tudelft.nl • Rick Schifferstein: Daily supervisor, associate professor – H.N.J.Schifferstein@tudelft.nl Introduction Relationship loss…
moreDesign Competition | Happy Trolley
Click for a larger view GENERAL INFORMATION All information about the competition will be provided through the DIOPD website only (www.diopd.org/happytrolley). All communication will be in English. An example trolley…
moreRich experience qualities
Generally speaking, negative emotions are unpleasant. When looking closer however, this is not always the case. Negative emotions can have several behavioral, social or experiential benefits that are linked to…
moreEffect of Design on Mood
We developed a picture scale that measures mood in a quick and user-friendly way. The aim of this study is to (a) test the test the tool by comparing it…
moreHappiness profiles for products
Currently we are working on developing a happiness profiling tool for products. The aim of this tool is to get an indication of the contribution to enduring happiness of a…
moreDiversity of Happiness & Diversity of Design
Design for happiness can be targeted to enhance different components of subjective well-being – some are more of hedonic, some more of eudaimonic nature. Furthermore, different roles that design can…
moreTiny-Task – happiness-enhancing product-service system
Tiny-task is a concept for a product service system that aims to enable and inspire people to engage in activities that enhance their happiness. A study has indicated that tiny-task…
moreMeaningful Design
We are working on a classification of ways in which design can contribute to well-being. The aim of the study is to collect examples of meaningful products and see how…
moreDesign for Happiness
A framework – the Design Well-Being Matrix – will be presented that combines theoretical aspects of positive psychology and ataxonomy of design roles, illustrating numerous design opportunities. There is no single,…
moreDesign for Interest: Exploratory Study on a Distinct Positive Emotion in Human-Product Interaction
This study explored the possibilities to design interactions that evoke user interest. On the basis of appraisal theory, it was predicted that interest is evoked by a combined appraisal of…
moreFaces of Product Pleasure: 25 Positive Emotions in Human-Product Interactions
The study of user emotions is hindered by the absence of a clear overview of what positive emotions can be experienced in human-product interactions. Existing typologies are either too concise…
moreDelft Institute of Positive Design participates the Intensive Programme (IP) “Co-Constructing Healthy Experiences”
On behalf of the IDE Delft Institute of Positive Design (DIOPD), Pieter Desmet and Anna Pohlmeyer participated in the successful application of this IP project, which focuses on the (health and)…
moreDFI Graduation Assignment
The Delft Institute of Positive Design has got a new graduation assignment: Enhancing Happiness in Office Surroundings Introduction Office workers spend a substantial portion of their time in an office…
moreNegative emotions for Social change
How can designers use negative emotions in product experiences that have a positive impact? In this Design & Emotion pre-conference workshop, twenty students from TU Delft and Central Saint Martins…
moreA kind ATM named John
The introduction of “near field communication” technology has made it possible for people to withdraw money by simply holding their smartphone up to an ATM. This radical new way of interacting with cashpoints…
moreEmotion Videos
This year Gert Pasman together with Lenneke Kuijer and Rob Maas (BK) have been running the new Bachelor elective IO3045 “Video for Designers”, in which students are trained to understand, apply and experience the…
moreIDE Emotional Design involved in new format NOS ‘Journaal’
Two weeks ago, the NOS launched a new format set for their flagship news show – the Eight ‘O Clock News. The inspiration for these changes came partly from a…
moreCollaborate!
Would you like to understand how to develop products and services that contribute to the well-being of users? Would you like to have an impact on happiness? DIoPD offers a…
moreD&E for Pepsico Chicago
In december 2011 twenty students of the elective Design for emotion and subjective well-being went to Chicago to do a special case-study in collaboration with Pepsico. Thanks to the inspiring…
moreMotivating quieter behavior in ICU’s
Delirium is a condition often found in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patients. It describes a collection of symptoms such as disability to focus, disorientation and impaired cognition such as failing…
moreI Knew I Shouldn’t, Yet I Did It Again! Emotion-driven Design as a Means to Motivate Subjective Well-being
The purpose of this paper is to introduce the concept of conflicting concerns to emotion-driven design and to demonstrate their translation into emotionally appealing design concepts. People have an endless…
moreDesign for pride
This project is about designing interactions between people and products which let people experience specific emotions and covers both theory (Boehner, DePaula, Dourish, & Sengers, 2007; Demir, Desmet, & Hekkert,…
moreTurn The Page
Turn The Page. No 39 Volume 13, February 2012
moreSlow design
Slow Design is a design philosophy that aims at supporting people in doing things at the right time and with the right speed, in order to help them to understand and…
moreImproving the welfare of pigs
At this moment there are twelve million pigs in the Netherlands, housed in the barren circumstances of the intensive farming industry. Most of these pigs are bored. Within the project “Improving…
moreCan we deliberately design products and services that increase the well-being of individuals and communities?
This question fuels our institute. Since the industrial revolution, all of our society – our workplaces, homes, transportation, and communication, have increasingly become infused with design. This impressive boost in…
moreNew postdoc researcher: Irene Kamp
After studying Industrial Design Engineering in Delft, Irene worked as a freelance designer on various comfort related projects. During her PhD project she worked at BMW in Munich and studied…
moreTowards happiness: possibility-driven design
This chapter suggest possibility-driven design as an alternative to the common problem-driven approach. A first part explores the concept of “possibilities” and how it relates to happiness and well-being. We…
moreThe traumas of isolation cells
The Netherlands is the winner when it comes to seclusion of patients with mental disorders (psychosis and autism). Each year 18.000 patients end up in these little rooms spending days, weeks…
moreThe adventure of a hospitalization
A hospital is a place where, at times, negative emotions can not be avoided. To transform these negative emotions into a more pleasurable experience for child and family, the Adventurer’s…
moreTiny Tasks
The main goal of this project was to explore opportunities for design in the field of positive psychology. Design has a way of making things concrete, understandable and engaging. These…
moreHouse of happiness
People want to be happy: a happy life is a desirable life. Can you design for that? In other words, can you design products that make a positive contribution to…
moreThe happiness kitchen
People want to be happy: a happy life is a desirable life. Can you design for that? In other words, can you design products that make a positive contribution to…
moreThree levels of product emotion
This paper introduces an approach to emotion driven design that was based on the process that underlies emotional responses to consumer products. Three levels, and nine associated classes of product-evoked…
moreSpecial Issue Editorial: Design & Emotion
This ‘emotional’ issue marks the 10th anniversary of the International Design & Emotion Society. In November 1999, the society was established after an event organized in Delft that became known…
moreEmotional Design; Application of a research-based design approach
In this paper, we discuss an approach to ‘design for wow’ that focuses on the emotions that constitute a wow-experience. In this approach, the eliciting conditions of these emotions are used to…
moreFramework of Product Experience
In this paper, we introduce a general framework for product experience that applies to all affective responses that can be experienced in human-product interaction. Three distinct components or levels of…
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