Print Email Facebook Twitter Touchy-feely Title Touchy-feely: A designerly exploration of haptic representations of three mood states Author Xue, H. (TU Delft Design Aesthetics) Zheng, Qianqian (Bybit Fintech Limited, Dubai) Desmet, P.M.A. (TU Delft Human-Centered Design) Contributor De Sainz Molestina, D. (editor) Rizzo, F. (editor) Spallazzo, D. (editor) Department Human-Centered Design Date 2023 Abstract Human moods are diffuse, elusive, and often difficult to articulate, yet they hold immense potential for wellbeing-centric design because they play a significant role in shaping our everyday life experiences. A person’s mood influences their experiences with a designed system, and in turn, their interactions with the design also influence their mood for better or worse. To enable designers to better comprehend and communicate moods in their design processes, this paper reports a project that explored the possibilities of creating haptic objects as a medium for communicating subtle qualities of specific moods. The project focused on three commonly experienced moods - cheerfulness, grumpiness, and gloominess. We first identified a set of haptic features that represent experiential qualities of these moods. These features were then synthesised into three mood-expressing haptic objects, which were evaluated using a blind test. The results indicated that haptic objects can be purposefully created, and that haptic qualities hold promise to complement verbal and visual forms of mood communication. Subject moodmood-focused designdesignerly explorationmood-expressing haptic objects To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:83e823a0-a175-4baf-88ef-7f849911eb34 DOI https://doi.org/10.21606/iasdr.2023.325 Publisher IASDR Source IASDR2023: Life Changing Design Event International Association of Societies of Design Research Congress 2023, 2023-10-09 → 2023-10-13, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights © 2023 H. Xue, Qianqian Zheng, P.M.A. Desmet Files PDF Touchy_feely_A_designerly ... ations.pdf 1.19 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:83e823a0-a175-4baf-88ef-7f849911eb34/datastream/OBJ/view