Search

When people interact with digital artefacts they perceive theirpragmaticandhedonic qualities. In the case of interacting with mobile devices and applications, users seek utility as they try to satisfy certain needs, but at the same time they have certain feelings and emotions when, for example, they feel attached to their personal phone and/or trust its brand. Due to this strong relation between users and mobile devices a significant problem occurs when researchers want to evaluate the user experience of a mobile application in laboratory settings: the selection of an appropriate mobile device. Towards this end, this paper aims to unveil the effect of perceivedhedonic qualityof a mobile device on the user experience evaluation results of an application. Our results show that the perceivedhedonic qualityof a mobile device significantly affected the perceivedpragmaticquality of the application, but not thehedonicone. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]