Print Email Facebook Twitter Proud to be in control: Understanding concern conflicts and initial principles for conflict-inspired design approaches Title Proud to be in control: Understanding concern conflicts and initial principles for conflict-inspired design approaches Author Ozkaramanli, D. Desmet, P.M.A. Hekkert, P.P.M. Faculty Industrial Design Engineering Department Industrial Design Date 2012-09-11 Abstract The purpose of this paper is to increase our understanding of how insights in conflicting concerns can be used as an approach to design for subjective well-being. This is done through examining qualities of a conflict experience across three life domains: food, procrastination, and safe sex. Ten participants from various age groups and backgrounds volunteered for a two-week diary study followed by in-depth interviews. Our findings indicated that there are three layers to a conflict experience: (1) mutually exclusive action alternatives, (2) immediacy of concerns, and (3) elicited mixed emotions. Interaction among these layers revealed three variables that influence people’s choices between two mutually exclusive action alternatives, namely size of the hurdle, awareness of potential costs and gains, and vividness of concerns. Our findings also include individual strategies that people use to deal with conflicting experiences. These strategies inspired three initial principles for designing products that can motivate people to prioritise meaningful goals, fulfilment of which can lead to sustained happiness. Subject concernconflictwell-beingmeaningful goals To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:8f661c81-8d06-4bda-93f9-9f0dccc3c94e ISBN 978-0-9570719-2-6 Source Out of Control: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Design and Emotion, London, UK, 11-14 September 2012 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2012 The Author(s) Files PDF 283328.pdf 527.56 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:8f661c81-8d06-4bda-93f9-9f0dccc3c94e/datastream/OBJ/view