Abstract
Over the last 20 years repeated attempts have been made in HCI to put enjoyment into focus. However, it is only recently that the importance of enjoyment, even in serious applications, has been widely recognised by the HCI community. Typical of a relatively new area of investigation is the lack of an agreed set of terms: enjoyment, pleasure, fun and attraction are often used interchangeably. But do they really refer to the same experiences? Of course, in common speech pleasure, enjoyment and fun are almost synonymous and this is not an attempt to fix the language. None of these terms are reducible to single definitions but for the purposes of this chapter we will propose a difference between pleasure and fun in an attempt to delineate distinct forms of enjoyment.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.
Buying options
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Learn about institutional subscriptionsReferences
Adorno T, Horkheimer M (1986) Dialectic of englightenment. Verso, London
Bateson G (ed) (1972) Steps to an ecology of mind. Ballantine Books, New York
Csikszentmihalyi M (1975) Beyond boredom and anxiety: the experience of work and play in games. Jossey Bass Publishers, San Fancisco
Debord G (1995) The society of the spectacle. Zone Books, New York
Devereaux M (2001) The philosophical status of aesthetics. Available: http://aesthetics-online.org/ideas/devereaux.html
Goffman E (1972) Encounters: two studies in the sociology of interaction. Penguin, Harmondsworth
Jackson P (1998) John Dewey and the lessons of art. Yale University Press
Jordan P (2000) Designing pleasurable products: an introduction to the new human factors. Taylor and Francis
Kahneman D (1999) Objective happiness. In: Kahneman D, Diener E, Schwarz N (eds) Well-being: the foundations of hedonic quality. Sage, New York, pp 3–25
Laurel B (1993) Computer as theatre. Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA
Monk AF, Hassenzahl M, Blythe M, Reed D (2002) Funology: designing enjoyment. In: Paper presented at the CHI. pp 924–925
Oxford English Dictionary. Available at: http://dictionary.oed.com/entrance.dtl
Roijec C (1985) Capitalism and leisure theory. Tavistock, London
Rozin P (1999) Preadaption and the puzzles and properties of pleasure. In: Kahneman D, Diener E, Schwarz N (eds) Well-being: the foundations of hedonic psychology. Russell Sage Foundation, New York, pp 109–133
Self W (1994) My idea of fun. Penguin books, London
Seligman MEP, Csikszentmihalyi M (2000) Positive psychology: an introduction. Am Psychol 55:5–14
Shafrir D (2017) Startup! A novel. Little Brown and Company
Skynner R, Cleese J (1993) Life and how to survive it. Methuen, London
Thompson EP (1963) The making of the english working class. Gollancz, London
Willis P (1990) Common culture. Open University Press
Willis P (2000) The ethnographic imagination. Polity Press, Cambridge
Zizek S (1999) You may! The postmodern superego. In: London review of books, vol 21, no 6
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2018 Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Blythe, M., Hassenzahl, M. (2018). The Semantics of Fun: Differentiating Enjoyable Experiences. In: Blythe, M., Monk, A. (eds) Funology 2. Human–Computer Interaction Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68213-6_24
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68213-6_24
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-68212-9
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-68213-6
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)