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A funny thing happened to me on the way to writing this chapter. I began to ask myself, what exactly constitutes fun in the user-experience of products and services?
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Marcus, A. (2015). Fun! Fun! Fun! In the User Experience. In: HCI and User-Experience Design. Human–Computer Interaction Series. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-6744-0_33
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