From Abstract to Tangible: Supporting the Materialization of Experiential Visions with the Experience Map

Designing for pleasurable and engaging product experiences requires an understanding of how users will experience the product, sometimes at a very abstract level. This focus on user experiences, rather than on the formal qualities of the product, might cause difficulties for designers in the materialization of design ideas. Designers need to...

Product sounds: Basic concepts and categories

In this paper we investigated which categories of product sounds listeners can distinguish. We explored the perceptual domain of product sounds in order to be able to derive perceptually similar categories and determine how users are able to describe these categories by merely listening to them. Employing two different experimental paradigms ...

Communicating "Homemade Cooking" through a new kitchen product.

This master thesis researched Homemade Cooking and how to communicate this experience through the sensory modalities. In order to find what the qualities of Homemade Cooking were and what kind of product would be interesting to develop three studies were carried out during this eight month thesis project: a contextmapping study (qualitative), a...

Multi-sensory Design in Detergent Powder Product Development

We experience the world through all our senses. People’s evaluation on the product is the same. It is very hard to measure how powerful the detergent product is or how clean the clothes really become. We make all the judgment through the information we receive from our senses. ‘Simplest way, best result’ as the core claim of ‘Dirt is good’...