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FORMULATING GUIDELINES FOR THE SYSTEMATIC SET-UP OF EXPERIENTIAL MATERIAL CHARACTERIZATION STUDIES: A CASE OF PLASTIC DEMONSTRATORS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2021

Lore Veelaert ,
Ingrid Moons  and
Els Du Bois
Lore Veelaert*
Affiliation:
University of Antwerp, Faculty of Design Sciences, Department of Product Development;
Ingrid Moons
Affiliation:
University of Antwerp, Faculty of Design Sciences, Department of Product Development; University of Antwerp, Faculty of Business Economics, Department of Marketing
Els Du Bois
Affiliation:
University of Antwerp, Faculty of Design Sciences, Department of Product Development;
*
Veelaert, Lore, University of Antwerp, Product Development, Belgium, lore.veelaert@uantwerpen.be

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Materials can be considered from a technical and experiential perspective. However, the latter perspective is more complex to study systematically. Four intertwined experiential levels describe the overall materials experience: sensorial, interpretive, affective, and performative level. Building upon the need in experiential material characterization for comparable physical material representations to enable within-material-class comparisons and the inclusion of extensive user aspects, this paper sums up the reasoning process regarding the understanding and design of an experimental set-up and its parameters of a specific case. The case objective is to formulate guidelines for the designer/researcher to set up experiential material characterization experiments with (i) plastic demonstrator forms and (ii) by consumers. Following elements are discussed: Assessors, Stimuli, Interaction Modalities, Dependent variables, Method, and Practical considerations. Next, future experiments can be carried out in order to generate holistic plastic material data on a larger scale, that can be collected in an experiential database and used by designers throughout the design process.

Keywords

Multisensory product experienceExperiential material characterizationMaterials experienceEmotional designHuman behaviour in design
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Proceedings of the Design Society , Volume 1: ICED21 , August 2021 , pp. 1587 - 1596
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