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Designing for Positive Emotions: Issues and Emerging Research Directions

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In this article, the question of how designers can be supported to deliberately facilitate positive emotional experiences is addressed, and the authors provide an overview of the role of designers in this process.
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Central to the present paper is the question of how designers can be supported to deliberately facilitate positive emotional experiences. Related to this, the paper provides an overview of the rese...

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What are ‘positive’ affect and emotion?

TL;DR: A broad review of the literature reveals multiple, theoretically distinct constructs associated with the terms 'positive affect' and 'positive emotion', sometimes conflated across this body of work as discussed by the authors.
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The Virtual Emotion Loop: Towards Emotion-Driven Product Design via Virtual Reality

TL;DR: In this paper, the VR-Based Emotion-Elicitation-and-Recognition loop (VEE-loop) is proposed to investigate the elicitation conditions related to emotions and corresponding emotional responses of users.
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