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 through integrating perspectives from design researchers, 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.
" authors: - family-names: Peng given-names: Zhuochao orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7855-479X" - family-names: Desmet given-names: Pieter M. A. orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0244-5359" - family-names: Kolks given-names: Laurens A. G. orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5636-2495" title: "Metadata record for the doctoral dissertation “Mood-Focused Design: An Integrative Exploration”" keywords: version: 1 identifiers: - type: doi value: 10.4121/a11987f2-7027-496c-9399-660c8d062257.v1 license: CC0 date-released: 2025-10-30