Experiencing information: the importance of affect in new media information design

The thesis examined the importance of feelings and emotions in information design for new media. The research drew on cross-disciplinary knowledge from experience design, information design, and psychology, demonstrating this combined knowledge in a case study, the design of a 3D virtual Indian temple. The thesis explored new territory in adapting phenomenological method from the field of psychology, creating a new design method that incorporated emotional and cognitive information in the design process and provided a way to test an audience's emotional and cognitive responses to the design.