User Experience - Recent approaches to intuitive use and hedonic aspects in human-technology interaction
Martin Christof Kindsmüller, Sascha Mahlke · 2007
Over the last decade, user experience has become a buzz-word in the field of interac-tive system design. Although the term promised change, it was never very specific about its definite meaning. Recently, more and more scientific contributions can be found that try to better understand of what is meant by ‘the user experience’. In this special issue, we focus on two areas of research that relate to the user experience: intuitive use and hedonic aspects of human-technology interaction. The first three original contributions to this special issue present research on intuitive use in human-technology interaction. Intuitive use – while being widely used by marketing departments to ballyhoo their products or services – was almost always regarded as ill defined or even meaningless by the scientific community (i.e. Raskin, 1994). This has only recently changed with the appearance of two new approaches – independently developed by a group in Australia (i.e. Blackler et al., 2006) and the Germany based IUUI Research Group (i.e. Naumann et al., 2007). Both groups are aiming for a definite concept of