Metadata record for the doctoral dissertation “Mood-Focused Design: An Integrative Exploration”

This is a metadata-only record for Zhuochao Peng's doctoral dissertation, Mood-Focused Design: An Integrative Exploration. The dissertation seeks to develop a comprehensive understanding of mood-focused design esearchers, design practitioners, and the author and collaborators as researcher-designers. Its main contributions include (1) articulating conceptual archetypes of mood-focused design, (2) revealing pragmatic orientations when incorporating mood in real-world projects, and (3) providing situated examples and considerations for engaging with mood in everyday contexts.
Three qualitative datasets were collected and generated during the doctoral research:

(1) Design professional interviews: 20 transcripts from interviews with experience-driven design practitioners in the Netherlands and Finland.

(2) Employee focus groups: 52 diary entries from 26 employees in the Netherlands, along with 6 transcripts from focus group discussions on experiences of the “Sunday Blues.”

(3) User evaluation studies: 45 transcripts from interviews with potential users engaging with mood-regulation interventions.

No research data are available for public access. The data are of a sensitive nature, and participants did not provide written consent for their data to be published or shared publicly.