Journal Publications

  1. Demir, E., Desmet, P. & Hekkert, P. (2009).
    Appraisal patterns of emotions in user-product interaction.
    International Journal of Design, 3(2),41-51.
  2. Desmet, P.M.A., & Hekkert, P. (2009).
    A decade of design and emotion.
    International Journal of Design, 3(2), 1-6.
  3. Desmet, P.M.A., Ortiz Nicolas, J.C., & Schoormans, J.P.L. (2008).
    Personality in physical human/product interaction.
    Design Studies, 29(5), 458-477.
  4. Schifferstein, H.N.J., & Desmet, P.M.A. (2008).
    Tools facilitating multisensory product design.
    The Design Journal, 11(2), 137-158.
  5. Desmet, P.M.A., & Schifferstein, H.N.J. (2008).
    Sources of positive and negative emotions in food experience.
    Appetite, 50(2-3), 290-301.
  6. Desmet, P.M.A., & Hekkert, P. (2007).
    Framework of product experience.
    International Journal of Design, 1(1), 57-66.
  7. Desmet P.M.A., Porcelijn, R., & van Dijk, M. (2007).
    Emotional design; application of a research based design approach.
    Journal of Knowledge, Technology & Policy, 20(3), 141-155.
  8. Schifferstein, H.N.J, and Desmet, P.M.A. (2007).
    The effects of sensory impairments on product experience and personal well-being.
    Ergonomics, 50, 2026-2048.
  9. Weerdesteijn, J.M.W., Desmet, P.M.A., & Gielen, M.A. (2005).
    Moving design; to design emotion through movement.
    The Design Journal 8(1), 28-40.
  10. Desmet, P.M.A. (2003).
    Multilayered model of product emotions.
    The Design Journal, 6(2), 4-11.
  11. Desmet, P.M.A., Overbeeke, C.J., & Tax, S.J.E.T. (2001).
    Designing products with added emotional value: development and application of an approach for research through design.
    The Design Journal, 4(1), 32-47.
  12. Desmet, P.M.A., Hekkert, P., & Jacobs, J.J. (2000).
    When a car makes you smile: Development and application of an instrument to measure product emotions.
    In: S.J. Hoch and R.J. Meyer (Eds.), Advances in Consumer Research, 27, 111-117.
  13. Desmet, P.M.A. (2000).
    Emotion through expression; designing mobile telephones with an emotional fit.
    Modelling the Evaluation Structure of KANSEI, 3, 103-110.


Books, contributions to books, editorships

  1. Desmet, P.M.A., & Hassenzahl, M. (in print).
    Towards happiness: possibility-driven design.
  2. Desmet, P.M.A., & Schifferstein, H.N.J. (in print).
    Emotion research as input for product design.
  3. Desmet, P.M.A., & Schifferstein, H.N.J. (2011).
    From Floating Wheelchairs to Mobile Car Parks: a Collection of 35 Experience-Driven Design Projects.
    Den Haag (NL): Eleven Publishers.
    More info, see: floatingwheelchairs
  4. Desmet, P.M.A., & Hekkert, P. (2009). (Eds.)
    Special issue on design & emotion research.
    International Journal of Design, 3(2).
  5. Van Schie, T.N., Schot, M., Schoone-Harmsen, M., Desmet, P.M.A., Rovekamp, A.J.M., & Van Dijk, M.B. (2009).
    User-centered design of tele-homecare products.
    In: K. Yogesan, L. Bos, P. Brett, & M.C. Gibbons (Eds). Handbook of Digital Homecare; Series in Biomedical Engineering (pp. 221-242). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
  6. Desmet, P.M.A. (2008)
    Inspire and Desire.
    In: P.M.A. Desmet, J. van Erp, M.A. Karlsson (Eds.), Design and Emotion Moves (pp. 96-113). Cambridge: Cambridge Scholar Press.
  7. Desmet, P.M.A. (2008)
    Product Emotion.
    In: P. Hekkert, & H.N.J. Schifferstein (Eds.), Product experience (pp. 379√397). Amsterdam: Elsevier.
  8. Desmet, P.M.A., van Erp, J., & Hu, C. (2008). (Eds.)
    Enriching Experiences.
    Rotterdam: Veenman Publishers.
  9. Desmet, P.M.A., van Erp, J., & Karlsson, M.A. (2008). (Eds.)
    Design & Emotion Moves.
    Cambridge: Cambridge Scholar Press.
  10. Desmet, P.M.A., Justice, L., Hekkert, P., & Tsvetanova, S. (2008). (Eds.)
    Dare to Desire
    Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Design and Emotion, October 6-9. Hong Kong, CN: Polytechnic University of Technology.
  11. Desmet, P.M.A. & Schermer, W. (2007).
    Context for Emotion.
    In: T.R.A. de Rijk (Ed.), The World According to Concrete (pp. 260-267). Rotterdam: NAI publishers.
  12. Desmet, P.M.A. (2006).
    The basics of design for emotion.
    In: D.S. Fellows (Ed.), Foresight: the predicting power of research (pp. 575-584). Amsterdam: Esomar.
  13. Desmet, P.M.A., Karlsson, M.A., & van Erp, J. (2006). (Eds.),
    Design & Emotion 2006
    Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Design and Emotion, September 27-29. Gothenburg, Sweden: Chalmers University of Technology.
  14. Vink, P., Overbeeke, C.J., Desmet, P.M.A. (2005).
    Comfort Experience.
    In: P. Vink (Ed.) Comfort and Design (pp. 1-12). London: CRC Press.
  15. Desmet, P.M.A. (2004).
    From disgust to desire; how products elicit emotions.
    In: D.C. McDonagh, P. Hekkert, J. van Erp, & Gyi (Eds.), Design and Emotion: the Experience of Everyday Things (pp. 8-12). London: Taylor & Francis.
  16. Desmet, P.M.A. (2003).
    Measuring emotion; development and application of an instrument to measure emotional responses to products.
    In: M.A. Blythe, A.F. Monk, K. Overbeeke, & P.C. Wright (Eds.), Funology: from Usability to Enjoyment (pp. 111-123). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
  17. Desmet, P.M.A., & Hekkert, P. (2002).
    The basis of product emotions.
    In: W. Green and P. Jordan (Eds.), Pleasure with Products, Beyond Usability (pp. 60-68). London: Taylor & Francis.


Conference Publications

  1. Pasman, G., Boess, S., & Desmet, P.M.A. (2011).
    Interaction vision: expressing and identifying the qualities of user-product interactions.
    In: Proceedings of the International conference on engineering and product design education 8 & 9 september 2011, City University, London, UK.
  2. Vastenburg, M.H., Herrera, N.R, Van Bel, D., & Desmet, P.M.A. (2011).
    PMRI: Development of a Pictorial Mood Reporting Instrument.
    In: CHI ’11: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts Proceedings. Vancouver, Canada, May 2011 (pp. 2155-2160). New York: ACM.
  3. Desmet, P.M.A. (2010).
    Three Levels of Product Emotion.
    In: C. Bouchard, A. Aussat, P. Levy, & T. Yamanaka (Eds.), The Proceedings of the Kansei Engineering and Emotion Research (KEER) International Conference 2010, Paris (France), March 2-4, 2010 (pp. 238-248).
  4. Demir, E., Ozkaramanli, D., & Desmet, P.M.A. (2010).
    How to Design for Emotions: Experiences in a Course.
    In: K. Sato, P.M.A. Desmet, P. Hekkert, G. Ludden, & A. Mathew (Eds.). Proceedings of the 7th International Design & Emotion Conference 2010, Chicago (IL, USA), October 4-7, 2010.
  5. Fokkinga, S.F., Desmet, P.M.A., & Hoonhout, J. (2010).
    The dark side of enjoyment: using negative emotions to design for rich user experiences.
    In: K. Sato, P.M.A. Desmet, P. Hekkert, G. Ludden, & A. Mathew (Eds.). Proceedings of the 7th International Design & Emotion Conference 2010, Chicago (IL, USA), October 4-7, 2010.
  6. Demir, E. & Desmet, P.M.A. (2009).
    Product Appraisal Questionnaire: Development of a tool to assess causes of emotions experienced in human-product interactions.
    In: A. Guenand (Ed.), Proceedings of the 4th International conference on Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces, Compiegne (France), 13-16 October 2009.
  7. Desmet, P.M.A., van Erp, J., & Hekkert, P. (2009).
    Feel the Art; Creating Museum Involvement by Tapping Universal Human Concerns.
    In: A. Guenand (Ed.), Proceedings of the 4th International conference on Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces, Compiegne (France), 13-16 October 2009, pp. 219-229.
  8. Desmet, P.M.A., Guiza Caicedo, D., & Van Hout, M. (2009).
    Differentiating Emotional Hotel Experiences.
    In: T. Kokko (Ed.), Proceedings of the International Hospitality & Tourism Educators EuroCHRIE conference, Helsinki (Finland), 22-24 October 2009.
  9. Laurans, G., Desmet, P.M.A., & Hekkert, P.P.M. (2009).
    The emotion slider: a self-report device for the continuous measurement of emotion.
    Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
  10. Laurans, G., Desmet, P.M.A., & Hekkert, P.P.M. (2009).
    Assessing Emotion in Interaction: Some Problems and a New Approach.
    In: A. Guenand (Ed.), Proceedings of the 4th International conference on Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces, Compiegne (France), 13-16 October 2009.
  11. Schot, M., Desmet, P.M.A., van Dijk, M., & Schoone-Harmsen, M. (2009).
    Design for happiness; a telehomecare product case.
    In: A. Guenand (Ed.), Proceedings of the 4th International conference on Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces, Compiegne (France), 13-16 October 2009, pp. 286-294.
  12. Demir, E. & Desmet, P.M.A. (2008).
    Roles of products in product emotions: an explorative study.
    Proceedings of the 2008 Undisciplined: Design Research Society Conference, 16-19 July, Sheffield, UK
  13. Demir, E., Desmet, P.M.A. & Hekkert, P. (2008).
    Appraisal patterns of emotions in user-product interaction.
    In P. M. A. Desmet, S. Tzvetanova, P. Hekkert, & L. Justice (Eds.) Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Design and Emotion, Hong Kong: Hong Kong Polytechnic University Press.
  14. Desmet, P.M.A. (2008).
    Aesthetic emotions and consumer products.
    In: K.S. Bordens (Ed.), Proceedings of the Twentieth biennial Congress of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics, Chicago, August 19-22, 2008. IAEA: Montclair USA.
  15. Desmet, P.M.A. (2007).
    Framework of product emotion,
    In: S. Poggenpohl (Ed.), IASDR; emerging trends in design research, Hong Kong, November 12-15, 2007. Hong Kong: Polytechnic University.
  16. Desmet, P.M.A. (2006).
    A typology of fragrance emotions.
    In: D.S. Fellows (Ed). Excellence 2006; Esomar world research papers (pp. 309-320). Amsterdam: Esomar.
  17. Demir, E., Desmet, P.M.A., & Hekkert, P. (2006).
    Experiential concepts in design research; a (not too) critical review.
    In: P.M.A. Desmet, M.A. Karlsson, and J. van Erp (Eds.), Design & Emotion 2006; Proceedings of The International Conference on Design and Emotion, September 27-29. Gothenburg, Sweden: Chalmers University of Technology.
  18. Laurans, G., & Desmet, P.M.A. (2006). Using self-confrontation to study user experience: A new approach to the dynamic measurement of emotions while interacting with products.
    In: P.M.A. Desmet, M.A. Karlsson, and J. van Erp (Eds.), Design & Emotion 2006; Proceedings of The International Conference on Design and Emotion, September 27-29. Gothenburg, Sweden: Chalmers University of Technology.
  19. Porter, C.S., Desmet, P.M.A., Signes, M.J., Sperling, L., Ozcan, E., & Tito, M. (2006).
    ENGAGE: designing for emotion.
    In: R.N. Pikaar, E.A.P. Koningsveld, & P.J.M. Settels (Eds.). Proceedings of IEA2006; 16th World Congress on Ergonomics, 10-14 July 2006, Maastricht, NL. Amsterdam (NL): Elsevier.
  20. Desmet, P.M.A., Porcelijn, R., & van Dijk, M.B. (2005).
    HOW to design WOW?; Introducing a layered-emotional approach.
    In: S. Wensveen (Ed.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces, October 24-27, Eindhoven (pp. 71-89). Eindhoven: Technische Universiteit Eindhoven.
  21. Egmond, R. van, Desmet, P.M.A. & Helm, A.J.C. van der (2005).
    Basic and cognitive emotions in sound perception.
    In A Kurtgözü (Ed.), Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Design and Emotion (pp. 1-11). Ankara: METU.
  22. Demir, E. & Desmet, P. M. A. (2004).
    Product Appraisal Questionnaire: Development of a tool to assess causes of emotions experienced in human/product interactions.
    In P.M.A. Desmet, S. Tzvetanova, P. Hekkert, & L. Justice (Eds.) Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces. Compiegne, France: Compiegne University of Technology.
  23. Desmet, P.M.A. (2004).
    A typology of product emotions.
    Paper presented at the Fourth International Conference on Design and Emotion, Ankara, Turkey, July 12-14, 2004.
  24. Desmet, P.M.A., Hekkert, P., & Hillen, M.G. (2004).
    Values and emotions; an empirical investigation in the relationship between emotional responses to products and human values.
    Techné: Design Wisdom 5th European Academy of Design conference, Barcelona, Spain.
  25. Weerdesteijn, J.M.W., Gielen, M.A., Desmet, P.M.A. (2004).
    Playing with body language and emotions.
    Play and Education: 23rd ICCP World Play Conference, Cracow 2004.
  26. Desmet, P.M.A., & Dijkhuis, E. A. (2003).
    Wheelchairs can be fun: a case of emotion-driven design.
    Proceedings of the International Conference on Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces, June 23-26, 2003. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. New York: ACM publishing.
  27. Reijneveld, K., de Looze, M., Krause, F., and Desmet, P.M.A. (2003).
    Measuring the emotions elicited by office chairs.
    In: Proceeding of the 2003 international conference on designing pleasurable products and interfaces; Pittsburgh, PA, USA (pp. 6-10). New York, NY: ACM Press.
  28. Desmet, P.M.A. (1999). To love and not to Love:
    Why do products elicit mixed emotions?
    In: K. Overbeeke & P. Hekkert (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Design and Emotion, Delft, 3-5 November 1999 (pp. 67-74). Delft: Delft University of Technology.
  29. Laurans, G., & Desmet, P.M.A. (2008).
    Speaking in tongues – Assessing user experience in a global economy.
    In P.M.A. Desmet, S. Tzvetanova, P. Hekkert, & L. Justice (Eds.) Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Design and Emotion. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Polytechnic University Press.
  30. Desmet, P.M.A., & Hekkert, P. (1998).
    Emotional reactions elicited by car design: A measurement tool for designers.
    Automotive Mechatronics Design and Engineering, 31st ISATA Conference proceedings (pp. 237-244).


Publications in Dutch

  1. Desmet, P.M.A., & Nauta, J. (2006).
    WOORD-BIJT-BEELD.
    Utrecht: Agiel
  2. Desmet, P.M.A. (2003).
    Oog in oog met een stofzuiger; emoties als uitgangspunt van het industrieel ontwerpen.
    Kunstlicht, 24(1/2), 15-20.
  3. Desmet, P.M.A., Rijcken, T. (2001).
    Furby is dood, lang leve Furby; ontwerpers over product en emotie.
    Product; tijdschrift voor productontwikkeling, 9(1), 2-7.
  4. Desmet, P.M.A. (2000).
    Product en Emoties; greep krijgen op het ongrijpbare.
    Product; tijdschrift voor productontwikkeling, 8(2), 32-36.
  5. Desmet, P.M.A. (1997).
    Als je voelt wat ik bedoel.
    Vormberichten; Uitgave van de Beroepsorganisatie Nederlandse Ontwerpers, 4, 18-20.