APD 2016 - 4th International Conference on Affective and Pleasurable Design

This conference will focus on a more positive emotional approach in product and system design and emphasize aesthetics and enjoyment in user experience. This conference objective is to provide for the dissemination and exchange of scientific information on the theoretical and practical areas of affective and pleasurable design. This conference invites research experts and industry practitioners from multidisciplinary backgrounds, including industrial designers, emotion designer, ethnographers, human-computer interaction researchers, human factors engineers, interaction designers, mobile product designers, and vehicle system designers.
Areas of Interest include, but are not limited to those listed here:
Affective usability
Emotional user experience
Aesthetics for product and system design
Design driven innovation
Emotional requirements in product and system design
Emotional values in design process
Fun in product and service design
Kansei engineering for product and service
Evaluation for affective and pleasurable design
Evaluation tools for emotion
Measuring affectiveness and pleasure
Affective computing
Emotional aspects in social networking system
Emotional interaction design and tools for ubiquitous computing
Social interaction in affective and pleasurable design