A Sentiment Analysis of Design Reflections from Design Projects

TY - GEN

T1 - A Sentiment Analysis of Design Reflections from Design Projects

AU - Frich Pedersen, Jonas

AU - Inie, Nanna

AU - Halskov, Kim

AU - Dalsgaard, Peter

PY - 2018/4

Y1 - 2018/4

N2 - Little effort has been devoted to studying the emotional experience of designers over time. Using sentiment analysis, we explore a unique corpus of designers’ written reflections on 15 different design processes. We investigate how positive and negative sentiment in the reflections change over the course of a three-month design project. Our findings indicate that change in sentiment is not attributable to time alone, but rather to different phases and methods employed by the design teams. Finally, we discuss implications and future avenues for both our results and for using sentiment analysis in HCI research.

AB - Little effort has been devoted to studying the emotional experience of designers over time. Using sentiment analysis, we explore a unique corpus of designers’ written reflections on 15 different design processes. We investigate how positive and negative sentiment in the reflections change over the course of a three-month design project. Our findings indicate that change in sentiment is not attributable to time alone, but rather to different phases and methods employed by the design teams. Finally, we discuss implications and future avenues for both our results and for using sentiment analysis in HCI research.

KW - Design experience

KW - Design process

KW - Sentiment analysis

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85052022063&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1145/3170427.3188444

DO - 10.1145/3170427.3188444

M3 - Article in proceedings

SN - 978-1-4503-5621-3

BT - CHI 2018 - Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

PB - Association for Computing Machinery

ER -