Bringing User Experience (UX) Upstream to Design: A Sensing Based Approach
A new method and process for product design that is driven by the validation of emotional aspects, elicited by multi-sensory experience with products, more in line with the E-E perspective is proposed.
Abstract
Several studies in the field of Emotional Engineering have focused on studying new methods to design products that elicit positive emotions in the future consumers, focusing on the study of the visual perception of the products. A typical application of Emotional Engineering (E-E) is in the product design domain, where the design of new products tends to be validated even with respect to emotional responses, well before releasing the final product design. This paper proposes a new method and process for product design that is driven by the validation of emotional aspects, elicited by multi-sensory experience with products, more in line with the E-E perspective.Copyright © 2013 by ASME