  Nowadays, automation not only permeates industry but also becomes a
substantial part of our private, everyday lives. Driven by the idea of
increased convenience and more time for the "important things in life,"
automation relieves us from many daily chores - robots vacuum floors and
automated coffee makers produce supposedly barista-quality coffee on the press
of a button. In many cases, these offers are embraced by people without further
questioning. However, while we save time by delegating more and more everyday
activities to automation, we also may lose chances for enjoyable and meaningful
experiences. In two field studies, we demonstrate that a manual process has
experiential benefits over more automated processes by using the example of
coffee-making. We present a way to account for potential experiential costs of
everyday automation and strategies of how to design interaction with automation
to reconcile experience with the advantages of a more and more powerful
automation.
