Values Sensitive Design
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The document discusses various concepts related to design and behavioral addictions, emphasizing how affordances influence task performance. It outlines several addictive properties that perpetuate engagement, such as the pursuit of challenging goals and the sensitivity to feedback. Additionally, it highlights the psychological state of flow and how unresolved tension can also drive behaviors.
Values Sensitive Design
- 1. Value Sensitive Design With a few provocative bad design stories to keep everyone awake
- 2. Affordances • Features built into a system that make it better suited for some tasks than others. • Affordances encourage certain behaviors, make others more difficult.
- 5. Behavioral addictions- A repetitive action is an addition, rather than a habit, when the rewards it brings are ultimately outweighed by damaging consequences.
- 6. Stopping rule A natural places to stop and do some other activity.
- 7. Flow A psychological state in which you lose all track of time when accomplishing a task “the zone.” Experienced when tackling a moderate challenge with the skills to master the challenge.
- 8. Addictive property 1 • Goals just beyond reach • Many of us are highly conditioned to pursue goals, even if achieving those goals isn’t actually the best thing for us. Gives us positive feedback, makes us feel good when comparing ourselves to others.
- 9. Addictive property 2 • Unpredictable but irresistible feedback • We are driven to seek feedback that is not guaranteed.
- 10. Addictive property 3 • Sense of progress and improvement • Rewards given out very liberally at the start. • Allow people to build up some achievement, and then they are willing to pay to avoid the bad feeling associated with losing what you have built up.
- 11. Addictive property 4 • Tasks that become more difficult over time • People enjoy a challenge that is just beyond reach of their current abilities.
- 12. Addictive property 5 • Unresolved tension that demand resolution
- 13. Addictive property 6 • We are more sensitive to negative feedback than to positive feedback. • Ongoing social connection with others is motivating. • kids “emotional amblyopia”