Stefano Bussolon

• Professor at University of Trento

Economists define utility as the total satisfaction received from consuming a good or service. Neoclassical economics assume that humans act as perfectly rational agents whose ultimate goal is to maximize their subjective utility. Behavioral economists and psychologists, however, showed that people behave in ways that violate the neoclassical axiom...

The term User Experience has become mainstream. But what is an experience? In this paper I will give a definition of the concept, explaining it within the paradigm of evolutionary psychology. I will briefly describe its main components (executive functions, episodic and semantic memory), mechanisms (learning, reinforcement, evaluation), and goals (...

The idea that landscape fulfils many different functions and provides multiple benefits for human society is gaining strength. This new vision of landscape changes both, the interests and the needs of the persons involved and the use and management of the landscape itself. The objective of this paper is to study landscape conservation in a particul...

La ricerca ha lo scopo di verificare, in rapporto ai risultati ottenuti in precedenti ricerche condotte in Italia oltre che in altre culture linguistiche, quale è l’organizzazione concettuale di un ampio campione di termini emozionali del lessico negli adolescenti, analizzando i raggruppamenti tra termini che emergono da un compito di sorting, e la...

One of the main goals of information architecture is to organize an informational domain into a usable taxonomy. This is, however, a difficult task: final users can classify the same domain differently from experts, differences can arise between different groups of users, and the same users can create different taxonomies for different goals

Netsorting is a web based cardsorting tool. Our research group used Netsorting to run a number of experiments on cognitive science and on information architecture. In the study we are presenting here we compared two couples of card sorts with the same data: two performed with Netsorting, the other two with the traditional paper based card sorting....

The problem of human navigation in electronic environments is central to the debate on human experience with new technologies. The studies carried out, in particular in environmental psychology, offer a starting point for a better understanding of the origin of cognitive difficulties and the problems that can occur when moving in new habitats. A pr...