To do or not to do: Differences in user experience and retrospective judgments depending on the presence or absence of instrumental goals

Interacting with Computers

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 429-437

  Hassenzahl, Marc ^a   Ullrich, Daniel ^b  

^a Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Action mode; Affect; Context dependency; Evaluation; Goal mode; Instrumental goals; Task; User experience; User satisfaction

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; USER INTERFACES;

ACTION-MODE; GOAL-MODE; HEDONIC QUALITIES; INSTRUMENTAL GOALS; PRODUCT EVALUATION; RETROSPECTIVE JUDGMENTS; USER EXPERIENCE; USER SATISFACTION;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 34347256104     PISSN: 09535438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intcom.2007.05.001     Document Type: Article

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