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Cash, Philip (author), Daalhuizen, Jaap (author), Hekkert, P.P.M. (author)The increasingly transdisciplinary context of design, where designers collaborate with other disciplinary and domain experts, means there is a growing need to evidence the effectiveness of design methods. We address this need in two ways. First, we propose a ‘chain of evidence’, from motivation to claims, operationalising this in a systematic...journal article 2023
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Wan, C. K.Bruce (author), de Bont, Cees J.P.M. (author), Hekkert, P.P.M. (author), Filep, Sebastian (author), Chow, Kenny K.N. (author)Reminiscing on memorable travel experiences is a common practice amongst many travellers. This study introduces positive psychology interventions – cultivation of character strengths and savouring strategies - to examine memorable and meaningful tourism experiences (MMEs). Although both interventions aim to increase well-being, little...journal article 2023
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van der Maden, W.L.A. (author), Lomas, J.D. (author), Hekkert, P.P.M. (author)Introduction: Designing artificial intelligence (AI) to support health and wellbeing is an important and broad challenge for technologists, designers, and policymakers. Drawing upon theories of AI and cybernetics, this article offers a design framework for designing intelligent systems to optimize human wellbeing. We focus on the production...journal article 2023
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Post, Ruben A.G. (author), Blijlevens, Janneke (author), Hekkert, P.P.M. (author), Saakes, Daniel (author), Arango, Luis (author)Tactile experiences are a pivotal part of consumer behavior and choice. However, very little is known about why consumers esthetically appreciate touching products. The principle of Unity-in-Variety, stating that consumers like to perceive variety but only when this variety is presented as a coherent whole, has been shown to partly explain...journal article 2023
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van der Maden, W.L.A. (author), Lomas, J.D. (author), Hekkert, P.P.M. (author)The COVID-19 pandemic has put wellbeing on the global agenda like never<br/>before. Many businesses, organizations, and even governments have recognized<br/>wellbeing as a formal policy goal. This paper addresses the question of how to design<br/>complex systems to improve the wellbeing of their stakeholders. We present a case of<br/>helping a...conference paper 2022
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Loos, Shannon (author), Wolk, Sytze van der (author), Graaf, Nina de (author), Hekkert, P.P.M. (author), Wu, J. (author)Topology optimization is increasingly applied to design consumer products, for which aesthetics plays an important role to consumer acceptance. In industrial design, it is known that preferences or taste judgement obey certain rules or principles. These principles are not directly quantifiable, but can qualitatively predict and explain...journal article 2022
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Fokkinga, S.F. (author), Desmet, P.M.A. (author), Hekkert, P.P.M. (author)This paper introduces a framework for impact-centered design that maps the direct and indirect psychological, social, and behavioral effects resulting from human-product interactions, as well as the strategic pathways that designers utilize to achieve these effects. The framework was created through a series of expert workshops in which 186...journal article 2020
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Huang, S. (author), Carulli, M. (author), Hekkert, P.P.M. (author), Schifferstein, Hendrik N.J. (author), Bordegoni, M (author)Within the scope of Design for Sustainable Behaviour, the connection between behavioural change strategies and design idea generation has received limited attention. This paper highlights metaphorical thinking in product design to stimulate sustainable behaviour. In particular, the current study proposes a metaphor-based design method to guide...conference paper 2020
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Wiese, L. (author), Pohlmeyer, A.E. (author), Hekkert, P.P.M. (author)In this paper, we introduce a framework that conceptualizes a multi-stage process through which technology can promote sustained wellbeing. Intentional wellbeing-enhancing activities form the centerpiece linking direct product interaction to, ultimately, wellbeing. The framework was developed following a bottom-up–top-down approach by...journal article 2020
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Wiese, L. (author), Pohlmeyer, A.E. (author), Hekkert, P.P.M. (author)Research in positive psychology indicates that sustained well-being is more determined by our actions than by our possessions. Products' contribution to well-being may thus be grounded in their potential to support well-being-enhancing activities rather than in their material value. In a laddering study, we investigated how products shape a...conference paper 2019
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Barati, B. (author), Karana, E. (author), Hekkert, P.P.M. (author)Over the past years, product designers have been involved in collaborative developments of smart material composites early on in the development process, to showcase creative applications of them. In these projects, the way the material is presented to the development team and the extent to which its properties are defined affect how...journal article 2019
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Post, R.A.G. (author), Nguyen, Tran (author), Hekkert, P.P.M. (author)This research experimentally investigates whether Unity-in- Variety can account for the aesthetic appreciation of websites. In a first study we designed two sets of web pages, differing in layout style and content, to systematically and independently vary on both unity and variety via the design factors contrast and symmetry (for unity) and...journal article 2017
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Niedderer, K. (author), Ludden, G (author), Clune, S.J. (author), Lockton, D. (author), Mackrill, J. (author), Morris, A. (author), Cain, R. (author), Gardiner, E. (author), Evans, M. (author), Gutteridge, R. (author), Hekkert, P.P.M. (author)Over the last decade, design for behaviour change has become increasingly recognised as a strategy for enabling social change. Despite<br/>this, we are far from understanding its implementation, especially through the private and public sectors. This study has surveyed private<br/>and public sector stakeholders with regard to their current...journal article 2016
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Barati, B. (author), Karana, E. (author), Hekkert, P.P.M. (author), Jönsthövel, I. (author)In response to the urge for multidisciplinary development of computational composites, designers and material scientists are increasingly involved in collaborative projects to valorize these technology-push materials in the early stages of their development. To further develop the computational composites, material scientists need designer’s...conference paper 2015
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Post, R.A.G. (author), Da Silva Cardozo, O. (author), Hekkert, P.P.M. (author)Aesthetic appreciation affects the success of products in a number of areas, such as user satisfaction and usability. Hence, designers apply aesthetic principles to create more successful products. However, it is still unclear how such principles apply to the services and systems that products are often part of. In this paper, we explore how two...conference paper 2015
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Overtoom, M.E. (author), Hekkert, P.P.M. (author)Houses were among the first structures that were built, and remain the most common type of building today. The design of housing has been the subject of architecture, while from a psychological point of view the meaning of home has been a major subject of research. These two different viewpoints are combined in this research to provide a tool...abstract 2015
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Da Silva Cardozo, O. (author), Crilly, N. (author), Hekkert, P.P.M. (author)Products result from processes that are guided by designers’ intentions for what the products should be, what they should be like and what they should do. People might infer these intentions more or less accurately from the products’ form, or they might learn about them from a variety of sources such as advertisements and other marketing...journal article 2015
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Blijlevens, J. (author), Hekkert, P.P.M. (author)to feel connected to and autonomous from their ‘type of people’ and when product designs do they are aesthetically pleasing. From an evolutionary perspective, product designs provide aesthetic pleasure because they help direct beneficial behavior. We argue that people can fulfill their evolutionary need for safety through product designs that...conference paper 2014
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Blijlevens, J. (author), Hekkert, P.P.M. (author), Thurgood, C. (author)While some studies have shown that people prefer typical product designs, others have shown that people also like product designs that are new. To reconcile these contradictory findings, the design principle, ‘Most Advanced, Yet Acceptable’ proposes that people prefer a balance of both typicality and novelty in product designs. As an explanation...conference paper 2014
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Berghman, M.J. (author), Cila, N. (author), Hekkert, P.P.M. (author)In design research perceptual features of a design such as unity- in-variety as well as conceptual properties (whether the design is a good instantiation of designer’s intentions) have been found to affect the aesthetic experience independently. In the course of a research design using systematic manipulations of USB stick designs in three...conference paper 2014