CUX Patterns Approach: Towards Contextual User Experience Patterns

User experience (UX) is highly influenced and even changed by the context in which it occurs. So far, both concepts "user experience" and "context" have been discussed a lot to various extent and in different dimensions. Within this paper, we aim to bring these two important areas closer together by using patterns. We introduce the contextual user experience patterns (CUX patterns) approach. Precisely, we argue for using patterns to describe knowledge on how to influence the users' experience in a positive way by taking context parameters during the interaction with a system into account. To do so, we provide a detailed description of how to structure CUX patterns, referring to the context "car" as one of the two main application areas, which is investigated in our recently established laboratory on contextual interfaces. Keywords-user experience; context; contextual user experi- ence; patterns approach; patterns structure; contextual inter- faces; car application area

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