The multiphase leisure experience looks at the experience as a five phase process that includes anticipation, travel to, onsite behavior, travel from, and recollection. This continuum depicts a dynamic experience, one that evolves and matures across the five phases. The purpose of this study is to take this model and apply it to sport events. Understanding sport events as a multiphase experienc...

Stories capture the characteristics of the design space and audience that designers and engineers need to understand to build a complete and useful software experience. A story is a design communication tool that transcends the cultural divides of multidisciplinary teams and intertwines a technology with its user’s goals. This article describes how stories are powerful tools in software design,...

The University of Texas Transformation in Medical Education Portal (UT TIME Portal) is a game-based learning platform for select premed students, with a particular emphasis on communication and professionalism. In addition to quantitative data on system usage and user performance, the UT TIME Portal generates rich sets of qualitative data collected through discussion board posts and preand post...

Please cite this article in press as: Kujala, S., et j.intcom.2011.06.005 The goal of user experience design in industry is to improve customer satisfaction and loyalty through the utility, ease of use, and pleasure provided in the interaction with a product. So far, user experience studies have mostly focused on short-term evaluations and consequently on aspects relating to the initial adoptio...

To support the shift from technology-driven to experience-driven design in a company developing work tools (materials handling equipment), we developed and applied a participatory approach to increase awareness and buy-in of experience design and related methods at the company. We 1) present user experience (UX) design guidelines developed for both designers and managers based on the participat...

BACKGROUND:Currently, combines and tractors, being the most energy-intensive transport technological machines for agricultural purposes, largely determine possibility of transition to an efficient environmentally friendly economy, also provide technical aspect transformation agro-industrial complex into leading sector countrys industry. One sources dynamic loads in units subsystems tractor equi...

With the countrys quest to provide quality education, teachers must pass Licensure Examination for Teachers. In line with this, Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) align their curriculum by integrating review sessions learners equip them and increase chances of passing licensure examination after graduation. Using this groundwork, proponent developed a Mobile-Based LET Reviewer Social Scienc...

abstract background: many women, throughout their life cycle, experience unintended pregnancy and its subsequent induced abortion. nonetheless, women’s perceptions of this phenomenon – particularly in countries prohibiting elective abortion – are poorly known. the aim of this study was to explore iranian azeri women’s perceptions of unintended pregnancy. materials and methods: this was a conven...