Long-Term Goals or Immediate Desires?

Introducing a Toolset for Designing with Self-Control Dilemmas

Journal article (2017)

Authors

Deger Ozkaramanli Form and Experience
E. Ozcan Vieira Form and Experience
P.M.A. Desmet Form and Experience
Research Group
Form and Experience
Copyright: © 2017 D. Ozkaramanli, E. Ozcan Vieira, P.M.A. Desmet
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14606925.2017.1272831
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2017

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English

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Form and Experience

Abstract

This paper suggests that designers can frame user behaviour in terms of the conflicts between long-term goals and immediate desires (i.e. self-control dilemmas), and address these conflicts by facilitating the pursuit of long-term goals. A phenomenological study provided an understanding of self-control dilemmas and the strategies people use to deal with these dilemmas. Based on this understanding, this paper proposes a framework for analysing self-control dilemmas and three supporting design strategies. The framework can act as an analysis tool when distinguishing between long-term goals and immediate desires, and the design strategies can facilitate generation of ideas that can address self-control dilemmas. Understanding these human principles offers novel opportunities for products, services, or policies that contribute to subjective well-being

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