- Affective User-centred analysis, design and evaluation

- The value of Affective Interfaces/ Systems/ Application/ Interaction

- Generational differences and technology design

- Measurement of success of emotional technology/ interfaces

- Supporting user populations from difference generations

- Supporting user populations with Physical Disabilities

- Supporting user populations with Intellectual Disabilities

- Creativity Support Systems

- Emotional Design issues/methods/experiences for novel interfaces including tangible, mixed reality interfaces and multi-modal interfaces

- Emotional Design issues/methods/experiences for mobile and ubiquitous computing

- Usability

- User studies and fieldwork

- Methodological implications of emotional user studies.

- Participatory design and cooperative design techniques

- Ethical issues in emotional design

- HCI education and design education

- Eliciting User Requirements