Facets in HCI: Towards understanding eudaimonic UX - Preliminary findings

Livia J. Müller; Elisa D. Mekler; Klaus Opwis

doi:10.1145/2702613.2732836

Facets in HCI: Towards understanding eudaimonic UX - Preliminary findings

Livia J. Müller
, Elisa D. Mekler
, Klaus Opwis

Not published at Aalto University

University of Basel

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Abstract

In recent years, researchers aimed to understand different facets of positive experiences with technology. Positive psychology, and recently also HCI, makes use of a hedonia/ eudaimonia distinction. Hedonia is understood as providing enjoyable experiences, whereas eudaimonia is associated with meaningful experiences. However, it is not clear how eudaimonia manifests in the HCI context. The aim of this explorative study is to provide empirical evidence for eudaimonia in HCI and outline what characterizes hedonic and eudaimonic user experiences. Results indicate that hedonic and eudaimonic user experiences often seem to occur at the same time. Preliminary analysis of user narratives show rich data and experiences with a huge range of different devices are described. Based on these findings further implications and research possibilities are discussed.

Original language	English
Pages	2283-2288
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2702613.2732836
Publication status	Published - 18 Apr 2015
MoE publication type	Not Eligible
Event	ACM SIGCHI Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Seoul, Korea, Republic of Duration: 18 Apr 2015 → 23 Apr 2015 Conference number: 33 https://chi2015.acm.org/

Conference

Conference	ACM SIGCHI Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Abbreviated title	ACM CHI
Country/Territory	Korea, Republic of
City	Seoul
Period	18/04/2015 → 23/04/2015
Internet address	https://chi2015.acm.org/

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