TY - CONF TI - Eudaimonia in human factors research and practice: Foundations and conceptual framework applied to older adult populations AU - Seaborn, Katie AU - Fels, Deborah I. AU - Pennefather, Peter T2 - ICT4AgeingWell 2015 AB - The past decade has seen the emergence of well-being/quality of life as a strand of inquiry in human factors research that has expanded the field’s reach to matters beyond fit, functionality and usability. This effort has been spearheaded by “hedonomics,” a human factors conceptualization of well-being that reflects the philosophical notion of hedonia, traditionally defined as pleasure. However, recent work in the psychology of well-being has shown that hedonia constitutes only one facet of well-being. In light of this, the concept of “eudaimonics” as a complement to hedonomics is introduced. First, these concepts are positioned relative to their counterparts in philosophy: where hedonomics is characterized by pleasure and avoidance of pain (hedonia), eudaimonics is characterized by flourishing and personal excellence (eudaimonia). Following this, a working conceptual framework for eudaimonics that is informed by the psychological literature, particularly the concepts of psychological well-being (PWB) and subjective well-being (SWB), is presented. An expansion of the hedonomics model of design priority hierarchy is offered. Applications to the domains of ageing well and technologies for older populations are proposed. Directions for future work, including the adoption and modification of psychology instruments for human factors research, is discussed. C1 - Lisbon, Portugal C3 - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health DA - 2015/// PY - 2015 DO - 10.5220/0005473003130318 SP - 313 EP - 318 PB - SCITEPRESS SN - 978-989-758-102-1 ST - Eudaimonia in human factors research and practice KW - cv ER -