The Affectibility Concept in Systems for Learning Contexts
Elaine C. S. Hayashi, M. Cecília C. Baranauskas · International Journal for e-Learning Security · 2011
As the focus of interest in HCI research expands, new design approaches are needed.Interaction designers, who have been guiding their endeavors for better user interfaces by the concepts of usability and accessibility, are now having the opportunity to look into faces of usability not yet deeply explored: the affective and emotional ones.As an emerging subject, the need for models that associate emotions and affective quality with human-computer interaction design is still scarce.In this paper, a literature review -and its critical analysis about existing frameworks and models -organizes the state of the art about emotional quality towards the design of learning and educational systems.An experiment performed in the setting of an elementary school illustrates our proposal.From both the review and the experiment, we present the concept of Affectibility as the guiding notion from which the use and design of system-user interaction could be treated.Affectibility refers to the aspects that make the system of good -or bad -affective, emotional and hedonic qualities, potentially evoking certain affective responses in the users.