Blog — Experience and Interaction Design

Everything can be beautiful

I argue that everything can be beautiful ... as long as somebody with authority claims it to be.

PublicationsMarc HassenzahlJuly 4, 2012aesthetics, beauty, human-computer interaction, industrial design, interaction design, user experience

Sarah Diefenbach at DIS'12

This week Sarah Diefenbach will talk about Experience Design and Wellbeing at this year's workshop on Design and Wellbeing at DIS'12 in New Castle.

UncategorizedMatthias LaschkeJune 11, 2012

The Chocolate Machine at BloombergBusinessweek and Reveries.com [updt]

Based on our Note at CHI'12, The Chocolate Machine arouses some interest. Marc talked to Drake Bennett of BloombergBusinessweek. Additionally, Tim Manners of Reveries.com posted an short note about the Chocolate Machine. Additionally The Food Chanel posted some lines about the Chocolate Machine.

Publications, TalksMatthias LaschkeJune 10, 2012aesthetic of friction, captology, CHI, persuasive technology, self-control, self-regulation, transformational objects, transformational products, willpower

Preisverleihung des Hansgrohe Sonderpreises 2012: Efficient Water Design

Am Donnerstag, 31.Mai 2012 fand die Preisverleihung des Hansgrohe Sonderpreises, der im Zuge des IF concept design awards 2012 verliehen wurde, im Kunsthaus Hamburg statt. Wir freuen uns, dass wir einen der Sonderpreise für unseren Duschkalender am Donnerstag erhalten haben.

Publications, ShowsMatthias LaschkeJune 5, 2012Award, persuasive technology, transformational objects, transformational products

Trip.Mate – Bachelor-Präsentation von Gary Kunkel

Am kommenden Montag, 14.05.2012 findet die Bachelor-Präsentation von Gary Kunkel statt. Wer erfahren will, wie man das Reiseerlebnis der gesamten Familie bei längeren Autofahrten verstärkt, ist herzlich eingeladen.

Shows, Supervised student projectsMatthias LaschkeMay 11, 2012automotive, bachelor, BMW, car experience, car interior, experience design

L’expérience utilisateur

Tomorrow I'll make a quick side trip to Paris ... je suis un orateur au FLUPA UX-Day. Paris, nous voilà!

TalksMarc HassenzahlMay 10, 2012

The Chocolate Machine presented at CHI'12

This week Flavius Kehr presented our project "The Chocolate Machine" at the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI '12 in Austin, Texas.

Publications, Supervised student projects, TalksMatthias LaschkeMay 7, 2012CHI, ego-depletion, persuasive technology, self-control, transformational objects, transformational products

Freude durch Technik?! Keynote auf der tekom Frühjahrstagung

Am Donnerstag, den 26. April 2012, bin ich auf der tekom Frühjahrstagung 2012 und widme mich der Frage, wie Technik Freude bereiten kann.

TalksMarc HassenzahlApril 24, 2012experience design, human-computer interaction, industrial design, interaction design, user experience

Design theater in the rolling classroom

CoursesMarc HassenzahlApril 24, 2012experience design, interaction design, user experience

Warsaw, I am coming ...

TalksMarc HassenzahlApril 11, 2012experience design, human-computer interaction, interaction design, user experience

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it

Transformational Objects aim at facilitating the realization of actions people find worthwhile, but hard to implement. To do so, the objects comments on our actions the very moment we may fall prey to a temptation. The object creates friction – but in a playful, slightly mocking way. Learn more ... Episode 3: Greenstuff Glory by Constanze Schlüter

Shows, Supervised student projectsMarc HassenzahlMarch 28, 2012aesthetic of friction, aesthetics of interaction, captology, experience design, human-computer interaction, industrial design, persuasive technology, transformational products, user experience

The mysteries of beauty

Beauty - a topic always good for serious research and heated debates, facts and fiction. Interaction-design.org further extends their wonderful encyclopedia with a chapter by Noam Tractinsky on "Aesthetics in HCI". Here is a sneaky preview ...

Friends ofMarc HassenzahlMarch 23, 2012aesthetics, aesthetics of interaction, beauty, experience design, human-computer interaction, interaction design, user experience