MY TOP 10 EMOTION & EXPERIENCE RECOMMENDATIONS
I decided to put together the following list for anyone who might pass through wanting to know more about my work or about emotion in HCI. Other than my own work :-) the following are pieces that I feel are seminal to my knowledge base or those that have caused me one too many hours of contemplation and realization.

1. Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1990). Flow: The psychology of optimal experience. New York: Harper & Row.

2. Damasio, A. R. (1994). Descartes' error: Emotion, reason, and the human brain. New York: Harper Collins.

3. Dewey, J. (1934). Art as experience. New York: Minton, Balch & Company.

4. Forlizzi J., & Ford, S. (2000). The building blocks of experience: An early framework for interaction designers. Proceedings of Designing Interactive Systems, New York, NY, 424-433.

5. Isen, A. M. (1999). Positive affect. In T. Dalgleish & M. Power (Eds.), Handbook of cognition and emotion (pp. 521-539). New York: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

6. Reeves, B., & Nass, C. (1996). The media equation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

7. Picard, R. W. (1997). Affective computing. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

8. Bell, G., & Kaye, J. (2002). Designing technology for domesticated spaces: A kitchen manifesto. Gastronomica 2(2), 46-62.

9. Dunne, A. & Raby, F. (2001). Design noir: The secret life of electronic objects. Basel, Switzerland: August / Birkhaeuser.


OTHER GOOD HCI RELATED READS

Tufte, E. R. (1990). Envisioning Information. Cheshire, Connecticut:Graphics Press LLC.

Margolis, J. & Fisher, A. (2002). Unlocking the Clubhouse Women in Computing. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.



"Your brain may give birth to any technology, but other brains will decide whether the technology thrives. The number of possible technologies is infinite, and only a few pass this test of affinity with human nature."
-Robert Wright, Nonzero: The logic of human destiny
             "We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us."
-Winston Churchill