Developing joy for inside out

In hand-drawn 2D animation, artists have direct control over the image. Silhouette lines are drawn with a specific intent, e.g. an elbow might be drawn as a curve, or with a sharp angle. By contrast, in 3D animation, direct silhouette control is often ...

User experience research has reached a good understanding of the importance of hedonic attributes and how to evoke emotions through design. Yet, there is only little knowledge on how to sustain and optimize positive emotions derived from a positive ...

There is evidence that people commonly show a bias toward happy facial emotions during laboratory tasks, that is, they identify other people’s happy facial emotions faster than other people’s negative facial emotions. However, not everybody shows this ...