COOL Library
Our library contains books and papers that focused on coolness and we managed to identify. Feel free to inform us if anything is missing!
Books
- Connor, M.K. (2003) What is cool?: Understanding Black Manhood in America. Agate Publishing.
- Evans, D. (2007) Coolhunting. A guide to high design and innovation. Southbank Publishing.
- Frank, T. (1997) The Conquest of Cool. Business Culture, Countercurture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism. The University of Chicago Press.
- Gioia, T. (2009) The birth and death of the Cool. Speck Press.
- Kerner, N., Pressman, G., and Essex, A. (2007) Chasing Cool: Standing out in Today’s Cluttered Marketplace. Atria.
- Levy, S. (2002) Ready, Steady, Go. Swinging London and the invention of Cool. Fourth Estate.
- MacAdams, L. (2001) Birth of the Cool. Beat, Bebop, and the American Avant-Garde. The Free Press.
- Majors, R., and Billson, J.M. (1993) Cool Pose: The Dilemmas of Black Manhood in America. Touchstone.
- Pountain, D., and Robbins, D. (2000) Cool Rules. Anatomy of an Attitude. Reaction Books.
- Stearns, P.N. (1994) American Cool: Constructing a Twentieth-century Emotional Style. New York University Press.
- Taylor, M. (2009) The book of Cool. Running Press Book Publishers.
Articles
- Bird, S., and Tapp, A. (2008) Social Marketing and the meaning of Cool. Social Marketing Quarterly, 14, 1, 18-29.
- Bruun, A., Raptis, D., Kjeldskov, J., and Skov, M.B. (2016) Measuring the coolness of interactive products: The COOL Questionnaire. Behaviour & Information Technology, available online
- Charles, G. (2002) Cool for Cash. Marketing Week, 25, 33, 24.
- Cowan, B.R., Avramides, K., and Beale, R. (2013) Should cool be a design goal? In Proc. BCS HCI 2013, 1-5.
- Culén, A.L., and Gasparini, A.A. (2012) Situated Techno-Cools: factors that contribute to making technology cool in a given context of use. PsychNology, 10 (2), 117-139.
- Dar-Nimrod, I., Hansen, I.G., Proulx, T., Lehman, D.R., Chapman, B.P., and Duberstein, P.R. (2012) Coolness: an empirical investigation. Journal of Individual Differences, 33 (3), 175–185.
- de Guzman, E.S. (2012) “Cool” Card Sort: Adapting Desirability studies to assess “Cool”-ness. ACM CHI Workshop on Cool aX Continents, Cultures and Communities 2012.
- Farnsworth, C., Holtzblatt, K., Pai, S., Wagg, K., Held, T., Wylen, E., Kennedy, S.L., and Kutty, P (2014) Measuring Products “Coolness” – Developing a Measurement Instrument. In Proc. CHI 2014 Extended Abstracts, 893-896.
- Farnsworth, C., Holtzblatt, K., Held, T., and Pai, S. (2014) Cool in Business: Developing a Data-Based Instrument Measuring “Cool”. In Proc. HCII 2014, 232-243.
- Fitton, D., Horton, M., Read, J.C., Little, L., and Toth, N. (2012) Climbing the Cool Wall: Exploring Teenage Preferences of Cool. In Proc. CHI 2012 Extended Abstracts, 2093-2098.
- Fitton, D., Read, J.C., Horton, M., Little, L., Toth, N., and Guo, Y. (2012) Constructing the Cool Wall: A Tool to Explore Teen Meanings of Cool. PsychNology, 10, 2, 141-162.
- Gerber, J.P., and Geiman, C. (2012) Measuring the existence of cool using an extended Social Relations Model. PsychNology, 10 (2), 103-115.
- Gladwell, M. (1997) The Coolhunt, New Yorker, March 17, 1997. Retrieved from: http://www.gladwell.com/1997/ 1997_03_17_a_cool.htm
- Holtzblatt, K., Rondeau, D.B., and Holtzblatt, L. (2010) Understanding “Cool”. In Proc. CHI 2010 Extended Abstracts, 3159-3162.
- Holtzblatt, K. (2011) What Makes Things Cool? Intentional Design for Innovation. Interactions, 18, 6, 40-47.
- Horton, M., Read, J.C., Fitton, D., Toth, N., and Little, L. (2012) Too Cool at School – Understanding Cool Teenagers. PsychNology, 10, 2, 73-91.
- Kirman, B. (2012) Hipsters, Trendies and Rebels: If Fun is Cool, is Game Design Cool Design? ACM CHI Workshop on Cool aX Continents, Cultures and Communities 2012
- Majors, R. (2001) Cool Pose: Black Masculinity and Sports. In (eds) S.M. Whitehead and F. Barrett, The Masculinities Reader, Polity Press.
- McCrickard, D.S., Doswell, F., Barksdale, J., and Piggott, D. (2012) Understanding Cool in Computing for African-American Youth. ACM CHI Workshop on Cool aX Continents, Cultures and Communities 2012
- McCrickard, D.S., Barksdale, J., and Doswell, F. (2012) Understanding Cool: An analytic exploration of contributing factors for teens. PsychNology, 10 (2), 93-102.
- Moore, R.L. (2004) We’re Cool, mom and dad are swell: Basic slang and generational shifts in values. American Speech, 79, 1, 59-86.
- Nancarrow, C., Nancarrow, P., and Page, J. (2001) An analysis of the concept of cool and its marketing implications. Journal of Consumer Behaviour, 1, 4, 311-322.
- Nancarrow, C., and Nancarrow, P. (2007) Hunting for cool tribes. In (eds) Cova, B., Kozinets, R.V., and Shankar, A., Consumer Tribes, 129-143.
- O’Donnell, K.A., and Wardlow, D.L. (2000) A Theory on the origins of Coolness. Advances in Consumer Research, 27, 13-18.
- Raptis, D., Kjeldskov, J., and Skov, M.B. (2013) Understanding "Cool" in Human-Computer Interaction Research and Design. In Proc. OzCHI 2013, 53-62.
- Raptis, D. (2015) User Experience of Mobile Devices: Physical Form, Usability and Coolness, PhD Thesis, Aalborg University.
- Read, J.C., et al. (2011) Understanding and Designing Cool Technologies for Teenagers. In Proc. CHI 2011 Extended Abstracts, 1567-1572.
- Read, J.C., Horton, M., and Fitton, D. (2012) Being Cool-Getting Persona-l. ACM CHI Workshop on Cool aX Continents, Cultures and Communities 2012.
- Rodkin, P.C., Farmer, T.W., Pearl, R., and Van Acker, R. (2006) They’re Cool: Social Status and Peer Group Supports for Aggressive Boys and Girls. Social Development, 15, 2, 175–204.
- Rushkoff, D. (2008) The Pursuit of Cool. Available online: http://www.rushkoff.com/articles-individual/ 2008/10/28/the-pursuit-of-cool.html
- Saxton, G. (2005) Collections of Cool. Young Consumers, 6, 2, 18.
- Schiller, J. (2012) Who is the coolest of them all. ACM CHI Workshop on Cool aX Continents, Cultures and Communities 2012
- Southgate, N. (2003) Coolhunting, account planning and the ancient cool of Aristotle. Marketing Intelligence & Planning, 21, 7, 453-461.
- Sundar, S.S., Tamul, D.J., and Wu, M. (2014) Capturing “cool”: Measures for assessing coolness of technological products. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 72 (2), 169-180.
- Thompson, R.F. (1973) An aesthetic of Cool. African Arts, 7, 1, 41-91.
- Warren, C., and Campbell, M.C. (2014) What makes things cool? How Autonomy Influences Perceived Coolness. Journal of Consumer Research, 41 (2), 543-563.
Other
- The Merchants of Cool (2001) Frontline Documentary. Available online: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/ frontline/shows/cool/view/