Hedonic and pragmatic attributes in determining the mobile phone user experience
Journal Title: Romanian Journal of Human - Computer Interaction - Year 2008, Vol 1, Issue 3
Abstract
The present research represents an integrative approach of the user experience notion having the Hassenzahl model (2003) as a starting point. The integrative dimensions of our model are represented by: product characteristics, pragmatic attributes (ease of use, usability), hedonic attributes (stimulation, identification, evocation), consequences (satisfaction, pleasure and visual attraction) and the context of use (action vs. goal mode). This model is empirically tested in the field of mobile technology, more specifically in the field of mobile phone use. Our results indicate that all the aspects of the experience contribute significantly to the overall satisfaction of the mobile phone user, the pragmatic and hedonic attributes not being perceived as two different elements. Perceived user satisfaction is seen as a mediator between usability and visual attraction. Both pragmatic and hedonic attributes influences significantly satisfaction and visual attraction and the differences regarding the user experience are significantly influenced by context.
Authors and Affiliations
Daniela-Maria Onacă, Andreia Daniela Mureşan, Horia D. Pitariu
3DUPB - The Mixed Reality Campus: A glimpse at how mixed reality systems can shape the future
Mixing concepts and techniques coming from 3D MMO games, virtual reality, mixed reality and ubiquitous computing, the 3DUPB project challenges the traditional ways of our daily activities and interaction. În a few words,...
Interaction Techniques In Earth Science Applications
The modelling, simulation and visualization of environmental data involves the defining and development of some particular interaction techniques. An architecture that supports different interaction techniques is present...
POS tagger based on second-order HMM
Part-of-speech tagging (POS tagging) is the process of grammatical labelling of each word in a sentence, phrase or paragraph with the corresponding part of speech. This process is a component of other modules of natural...
RACAI-RoTb: A Core of a Romanian Treebank Syntactically Annotated with Dependency Relations
This article presents the activity of creating a core of a treebank for Romanian, made up of 5000 sentences syntactically annotated with dependency grammar. In Introduction we bring arguments illustrating the need for cr...
Visualization of polyphonic voices inter-animation in CSCL chats
Instant messenger (chat) is one of the means of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, which may foster students' inter-animation towards joint knowledge construction. However, the analysis and grading of such chats...