Estudio Correlacional de Implementación de Diseño Emocional en Objetos de Aprendizaje

The focus of this correlational study was to determine the extent that emotional design was correlated with perceptions of user’s satisfaction, usability and usefulness of learning object on courses on-line, emotional design has become a design trend against a previous interface design paradigm based on interface functionalism and cognitive factors; The aim of emotional design is to improve users’ experience using social rules influence without coercion, some strategies of emotional design which can be implemented on learning object are: presenting contents as stories, using faces and personas - composite user archetypes that use realistic names, faces, and personalities to foster user empathy within a product-, short tasks oriented. Results reveal that there is a significant positive correlation between users’ satisfaction and using faces and personas –belonging to emotional design-, also there is a significant positive correlation between users’ satisfaction and learning object evaluation section –belonging to learning object design-, by now we can not specify which factor is most influential –emotional design or learning object design- in user acceptance, Finally about usability variable we cannot found any significance correlation.