Editors:
- The 2003 edition was the first book to consider fun in the context of HCI and has been influential in broadening the field, it is the most downloaded book in the Springer HCI Series
- This edition adds 14 new chapters that go well beyond the topics considered in 2003
- New chapter topics include: online dating, interactive rides, wellbeing, somaesthetics, design fiction, critical design and participatory design methods
- The 2003 chapters are also reprinted, with new author's notes setting the context in which the chapter was written and explaining the developments since then
Part of the book series: Human–Computer Interaction Series (HCIS)
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Table of contents (38 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Funology 2
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“Approaches and Directions”
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About this book
How should we understand and design for fun as a User Experience? This new edition of a classic book is for students, designers and researchers who want to deepen their understanding of fun in the context of HCI. The 2003 edition was the first book to do this and has been influential in broadening the field. It is the most downloaded book in the Springer HCI Series.
This edition adds 14 new chapters that go well beyond the topics considered in 2003. New chapter topics include: online dating, interactive rides, wellbeing, somaesthetics, design fiction, critical design and participatory design methods.
The first edition chapters are also reprinted, with new notes by their authors setting the context in which the 2003 chapter was written and explaining the developments since then. Taken with the new chapters this adds up to a total of 35 theoretical and practical chapters written by the most influential thinkers from academia and industry in this field.
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Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Design, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Mark Blythe
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Department of Psychology, University of York, York, United Kingdom
Andrew Monk
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Funology 2
Book Subtitle: From Usability to Enjoyment
Editors: Mark Blythe, Andrew Monk
Series Title: Human–Computer Interaction Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68213-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-68212-9Published: 07 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09825-4Published: 16 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-68213-6Published: 20 July 2018
Series ISSN: 1571-5035
Series E-ISSN: 2524-4477
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XVIII, 561
Number of Illustrations: 47 b/w illustrations, 105 illustrations in colour
Topics: User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, Educational Psychology, Applied Science, multidisciplinary