I came across an announcement for the following workshop:
Workshop on Designing Cute Interactive Media in conjunction with the
ACM conference on Designing Interactive Systems.
ACM is the premier professional research society for computer scientists. I think it is quite a statement that the broader research community is recognizing design, experience, and human emotion as bona fide research topics. Cuteness is being recognized as research by the research community!
In my mind, user adoption is the ultimate indicator of a technology's success, and adoption is driven by having a great user experience. The research discussed in workshops like these will help us understand and eventually formalize the
coupling of experience and technology. Understanding how to provoke human emotions like cuteness will help identify new research directions and drive technology adoption.
Congratulations to the researchers who were pushing these ideas in their work before it reached broader acceptance! For example, 2007 was the
25th anniversary of CHI. Clearly your efforts are paying off!
What do you think? Is studying "cuteness" research?
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