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Fundemental User Needs (FUN) Scales

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: The Fundamental User Needs (FUN) Scales is a newly introduced instrument tailored to assess how design-mediated interactions influence users' need satisfaction and frustration. The FUN Scales offer significant value to HCI and design research and practice, including the following benefits: Provides a shared and consistent language for discussing user needs, enabling standardized evaluations and comparisons across different projects and studies. Facilitates collaboration between HCI experts, designers, engineers, and other stakeholders by offering a common framework for understanding user needs. Bridges the gap between theoretical research on basic psychological needs and practical HCI and design applications, ensuring design decisions are evidence-based. Supports the development of need-oriented design principles, grounded in empirical research, that prioritize fundamental user needs in design-mediated interactions. Empowers informed design decisions, guiding the design of features and functionalities that focus on fulfilling fundamental users' needs.

Source: Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14907021

Author: Huang, Siyuan

Institution: Delft University of Technology

Language: English

Topic: Innovative Human-Technology Interaction

Subfield: Human-Computer Interaction

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek

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