Interface Design, UX and Emotion: a State-of-the-Art Report

Abstract

This article presents a state-of-the-art (SoTA) report of some publications by various authors about the crossing of interface design, user experience and emotion fields. The content is divided into three main parts: data collection, data analysis and data answers. Through literature review and summaries, different methodologies and theories about the subject are presented in the data collection part. Then, some of the information is intersected and compared in the data analysis part. To conclude the analysis, some questions are answered using the gathered information in the data answers part. Some of the questions answer to what is an affective interface, what are the emotions that users can have towards interfaces, how these emotions can be studied, among others. This review can be useful for beginners in this area to get knowledge, but also for other researchers and workers that need to consolidate or find a new point of views about the theme. It can be a font of inspiration for future researches and investigations.

Keywords: Interface design, product design, user experience, emotional design, state-of-the-art

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