Towards Stress-less User Interfaces: 10 Design Heuristics Based on the Psychophysiology of Stress

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 2012-January, Issue , 2012, Pages 1643-1648

  Moraveji, Neema ^a   Soesanto, Charlton ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

calming technology.; heuristics; stress; user interface

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; PATIENT MONITORING; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY;

CALMING TECHNOLOGIES; CALMING TECHNOLOGY.; DESIGN HEURISTICS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; HEURISTIC; HEURISTIC EVALUATION; INTERFACE DESIGNS; NIELSEN; OTHER INTERFACES; USABILITY HEURISTICS;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 85139431307     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2212776.2223686     Document Type: Conference Paper

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