Marije Kanis, A. Salovaara, Willem-Paul Brinkman. Mundane pleasures in everyday life. In Proc. Workshop on social interaction and mundane technologies (SIMTech08). pages 20-21, Cambridge and UK, 2008.
What are the situations in everyday life that people enjoy and cherish? This paper presents a content and user study with two simple mobile phone applications called PosiPost to investigate this question and learn what people express as their pleasures in everyday life. Drawing from a corpus of 379 PosiPost messages that users shared, this paper presents an analysis of users’ pleasurable moments. The results point to the importance of mundaneness of such situations, suggesting that creating sensational “wow” experiences, is not always necessary for giving rise to a person’s positive affect.