Print Email Facebook Twitter Embodied Typology of Positive Emotions: The Development of a Tool to Facilitate Emotional Granularity in Design Title Embodied Typology of Positive Emotions: The Development of a Tool to Facilitate Emotional Granularity in Design Author Yoon, J. Desmet, P.M.A. Pohlmeyer, A.E. Faculty Industrial Design Engineering Department Industrial Design Date 2013-08-26 Abstract This paper introduces a tool that has been developed to facilitate emotional granularity in design: ‘Embodied Typology of Positive Emotions’. Emotional granularity reflects individual differences in the ability to precisely represent and interpret one’s own and others’ emotional states, referring to distinct emotion words rather than merely to a general feeling of pleasantness. It can be advantageous for designers to have high emotional granularity. In design, the awareness of and ability to label nuances in emotions may facilitate to recognise users’ complex emotional responses with accuracy, and to specify design intentions in terms of emotional impact more clearly. The tool supports an understanding of 25 positive emotions by providing definitions of emotion labels, eliciting conditions, and visuals of expressive behavioural manifestations. This paper describes the tool, its development process, as well as ideas for applications in design. Implications of the tool and future research steps are discussed. Subject emotional granularitypositive emotionsdesign tool To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:73d03d59-e5a3-4916-80d0-c07468c41f92 Publisher International Association of Societies of Design Research ISBN 978-4-9980776-3-3 Source IASDR 2013: Proceedings of the 5th International Congress of International Association of Societies of Design Research "Consilience and Innovation in Design", Tokyo, Japan, 26-30 August 2013 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2013 The Author(s) Files PDF 295714.pdf 1.3 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:73d03d59-e5a3-4916-80d0-c07468c41f92/datastream/OBJ/view