Join ENGAGE (Engineering Emotional Design)

ENGAGE is a Coordination Action, funded by the European Commission under the 6th Framework Programme. It is bringing together industry, research and design to form a community of interest and expertise, and to gather and evaluate tools to design for emotion.

Visit the ENGAGE website at http://www.engage-design.org/> Become a member of the community: learn, share and contribute.

Everybody interested in Design and Emotion can join the community. Learn, be informed, contribute, share. As a member you gain access to the MEMBER AREA of the ENGAGE website, providing the following services:

• A growing library of papers, references, links, case studies, guides, etc Search for people with specific knowledge and/or expertise Discussion forums * A regular newsletter

ENGAGE OBJECTIVES Gather existing expertise & create a knowledge community Promote shared insight & establish a common language Classify methods and discuss industrial applicability & provide best practices Construct an inventory of expertise Classify problems found by researchers and practitioners Set up groups of experts and special interest groups (SIGs) Produce a classification of methods and tools Evaluate existing methods and tools

Identify gaps in current methods and tools & promote future research in this area

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Professor J A Waterworth, PhD http://www.informatik.umu.se/~jwworth phone: +46 (90) 786-6731 fax: +46 (90) 786-6550 Dept of Informatics, Umea University, 901 87 UMEA, Sweden ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------