Print Email Facebook Twitter Design thinking in positive psychology: The development of a product-service combination that stimulates happiness-enhancing activities Title Design thinking in positive psychology: The development of a product-service combination that stimulates happiness-enhancing activities Author Ruitenberg, H.P. Desmet, P.M.A. Faculty Industrial Design Engineering Department Industrial Design Date 2012-12-31 Abstract This paper presents an exploration of how knowledge drawn from the positive psychology domain can be used to design products and services that contribute to the happiness of the users. Two distinctions are proposed to structure initiatives in well-being driven design: activity- versus product-focus, and promise- versus problem-focus. A design case is reported in which a product-service system was created with the main function to stimulate people to actively increase their levels of happiness. Finally, an appeal is made for a further exploration of how design thinking can contribute to positive psychology; to investigate how creating products that deliberately stimulate people’s subjective well-being can be a means for both validating and substantiating the current contributions of the positive psychology movement. Subject happiness, positive psychology, persuasive technology, design case To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:bc80f44c-1d60-45a7-a7df-399905a14888 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 Ruitenberg, H.P., Desmet, P.M.A. Files PDF 283323.pdf 841.64 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:bc80f44c-1d60-45a7-a7df-399905a14888/datastream/OBJ/view