The Marriage Machine
During the last decades,researchers and professionals have investigated key components of successful marriages and proposed marriage principles to help couples with their relationships.Despite the abundance of marriage theories and training sessions oriented to turning theory into practice,people often fail to adhere to such principles due to increasing economic,social,and political pressures and consequent stress.The author’s company undertook the Marriage Machine project aimed to motivate and persuade couples to open themselves up towards techniques of daily practice and interaction with their partners,with the goal of making their relationships with each other deeper,more enjoyable,more personally enriching,and educational.Through a user-centered design process,we planned,researched,analyzed,designed,implemented (in the form of sample screens),evaluated,documented,and prepared training documents for a mobile phone application conceptual prototype.The Marriage Machine combines marriage theory with information design/visualization and persuasion design.The project targets North- American young adults,i.e.,likely early adaptors of mobile device technologies.However,the potential user community includes much of the population of most countries who are in committed partner relationships,regardless of age,education,culture,religion,gender,or other demographics.This paper explains the development of the Marriage Machine’s user-experience design,which involves user interface design,information design,information visualization,and persuasion design.
Aaron Marcus
Aaron Marcus and Associates,Inc.(AM+A)1196 Euclid Avenue,Berkeley,CA 94708-1640,USA
国内会议
User Frienly 2014暨UXPA中国第十一届用户体验行业年会
无锡
英文
1-31
2014-11-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）