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The cult of cute: the challenge of user experience design

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Volume 9 , Issue 6 (November + December 2002) table of contents

COLUMN: Fast forward table of contents

Pages: 29 - 34

Year of Publication: 2002

ISSN:1072-5520

Author

Aaron Marcus

Aaron Marcus and Associates, Inc., Emeryville, CA, and New York, NY

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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	2	Eco, Umberto. Los Angeles. In Travels in Hyperreality: Essays. Harvest Books, Fort Washington, 1990.
	3	Gelerntner, David. Computers and the pursuit of happiness. Commentary (Jan. 2001), pp. 31-35.
	4	Jordan, Patrick. Designing Pleasurable Products: An Introduction to the New Human Factors.Taylor and Francis, London, 2001.
	5	Marcus, Aaron. User-interface design for air-travel booking: A case study of Sabre. Information Design Journal. 10, 2 (2000/2001), pp. 188--206.
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	8	Monk, Andrew F. Fun, communication anddependability: Extending the concept of usability. In Proceedings of HCI 2002, London; ed. Faulkner, Xristine, Janet Finlay, and Francoise Détienne; Springer Verlag; London, 2002, pp. 3-14.
	9	Moss, Marie. Hello Kitty Hello Everything. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 2002.
	10	Newitz, Annalee. "Why is everything so damn cute? The fluffy-bunny regime is getting ugly. San Francisco Bay Guardian 38:17 (January 23-29, 2002), pp. 20-21.
	11	Norman, Don. Design of Everyday Things. Basic Books, New York, 2002.
	12	Norman, Don. Emotion and Design (forthcoming).
	13	Power, Guillermo, Wills, Gary, and Hall, Wendy. User perception of anthropomorphic characters with varying levels of interaction. In Proceedings of HCI 2002, London; ed. Faulkner, Xristine, Janet Finlay, and Francoise Détienne; Springer Verlag; London, 2002, pp. 37-52.
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	15	Peter Thaler , Robert Klanten, Pictoplasm, Die Gestalten Verlag, 2001
	16	Venturi, Robert, and Scott-Brown, Denise. Learning from Las Vegas, MIT Press, Cambridge, 1977.

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	Carl DiSalvo , Francine Gemperle, From seduction to fulfillment: the use of anthropomorphic form in design, Proceedings of the 2003 international conference on Designing pleasurable products and interfaces, June 23-26, 2003, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
	Franca Garzotto, Broadening children's involvement as design partners: from technology to "experience", Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Interaction design and children, June 11-13, 2008, Chicago, Illinois