Design research

• eDesign group

  Results of a research project (1999-2001) exploring the emotional aspects in interaction with products. A joint project of University of Art and Design Helsinki (UIAH), Helsinki University of Technology (HUT) and NOKIA

• ID Studiolab

  The ID Studiolab investigates what critical factors of human-product interaction contribute to an emotional experience. The research group is based at the department of Industrial Design at Delft University of Technology.

• Interaction Design Institute Ivrea

  Interaction Design Institute Ivrea develops the capacity to innovate new products and services, helping us interact with each other in new ways through communications, network and information technology.

• Jodi Forlizzi

  Interaction designer and researcher. The website unfolds a framework for experience driven design and includes an overview of some influential approaches to involving emotional experience in design.

• MIT affective computing group

  Rosalind Picard's research group focuses on research to make computational systems sense, recognize and understand human emotions, and respond in an intelligent, respectful manner.

• MIT tangible media group

  Hiroshi Ishii's group explores how to design a seamless interface between people, digital information and physical environments, by giving physical form to digital information.

• Royal College of Art - Interaction Design

  Interaction design masters course and research group exploring the role of technology in people's lives and imaginations.

• The Interactive Institute

  Swedish design-research institute working on innovations in digital media.

Organisations

• Design and Emotion Society

  Design and Emotion Society

Weblogs

• Affective design

  Trevor van Gorp's weblog where he explores "the heart of design".

• Design & Emotion

  All about the emotional side of products, brands and design. Marco van Hout interviews high profile experts from the design or branding field.