Evaluating affector: co-interpreting what ‘works’

Phoebe Sengers; Kirsten Boehner; Simeon Warner; Tom  Jenkins

Evaluating affector: co-interpreting what ‘works’

Phoebe Sengers
, Kirsten Boehner
, Simeon Warner
, Tom Jenkins

Cornell University

Research output: Conference Article in Proceeding or Book/Report chapter › Conference abstract in proceedings › Research › peer-review

Abstract

Affector is an interactive installation intended to stimulate reflection on and interpretation of emotions, based on an autobiographical design method in which the same people are designers, users, and evaluators. Evaluating Affector is challenging because we cannot evaluate the system by itself, but instead need to consider the role of users, designers and evaluators in actively appropriating and altering system meaning. Here, we describe the methods we are developing to evaluate Affector, which we hope to discuss and further develop with the other participants in the Evaluating Affective Interfaces workshop.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI 2005 Workshop on Innovative Approaches to Evaluating Affective Interfaces
Publication date	2005
Pages	1-4
Publication status	Published - 2005
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Affective interfaces
Autobiographical design
Participatory design
User-driven evaluation
Meaning making

Access to Document

SENGERS+05Final published version, 150 KBLicence: GNU GPL

Cite this

@inbook{4675c4da4adf4f3693121efcd0d12d62,

title = "Evaluating affector: co-interpreting what {\textquoteleft}works{\textquoteright}",

abstract = "Affector is an interactive installation intended to stimulate reflection on and interpretation of emotions, based on an autobiographical design method in which the same people are designers, users, and evaluators. Evaluating Affector is challenging because we cannot evaluate the system by itself, but instead need to consider the role of users, designers and evaluators in actively appropriating and altering system meaning. Here, we describe the methods we are developing to evaluate Affector, which we hope to discuss and further develop with the other participants in the Evaluating Affective Interfaces workshop.",

keywords = "Affective interfaces, Autobiographical design, Participatory design, User-driven evaluation, Meaning making",

author = "Phoebe Sengers and Kirsten Boehner and Simeon Warner and Tom Jenkins",

year = "2005",

language = "English",

pages = "1--4",

booktitle = "CHI 2005 Workshop on Innovative Approaches to Evaluating Affective Interfaces",

}

TY - ABST

T1 - Evaluating affector: co-interpreting what ‘works’

AU - Sengers, Phoebe

AU - Boehner, Kirsten

AU - Warner, Simeon

AU - Jenkins, Tom

PY - 2005

Y1 - 2005

N2 - Affector is an interactive installation intended to stimulate reflection on and interpretation of emotions, based on an autobiographical design method in which the same people are designers, users, and evaluators. Evaluating Affector is challenging because we cannot evaluate the system by itself, but instead need to consider the role of users, designers and evaluators in actively appropriating and altering system meaning. Here, we describe the methods we are developing to evaluate Affector, which we hope to discuss and further develop with the other participants in the Evaluating Affective Interfaces workshop.

AB - Affector is an interactive installation intended to stimulate reflection on and interpretation of emotions, based on an autobiographical design method in which the same people are designers, users, and evaluators. Evaluating Affector is challenging because we cannot evaluate the system by itself, but instead need to consider the role of users, designers and evaluators in actively appropriating and altering system meaning. Here, we describe the methods we are developing to evaluate Affector, which we hope to discuss and further develop with the other participants in the Evaluating Affective Interfaces workshop.

KW - Affective interfaces

KW - Autobiographical design

KW - Participatory design

KW - User-driven evaluation

KW - Meaning making

M3 - Conference abstract in proceedings

SP - 1

EP - 4

BT - CHI 2005 Workshop on Innovative Approaches to Evaluating Affective Interfaces

ER -