A robust design approach for enhancing the feeling quality of a product: a car profile case study

Lai, Hsin-Hsi; Chang, Yao-Tang; Chang, Hua-Cheng

doi:10.1016/j.ergon.2004.10.008

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“…These methods range from those following the analogy of communication (Van Bremen et al 1998;Hsiao and Chen 2006;Achiche and Ahmed-Kristensen 2011) to those following the Kansei Engineering approach (Colwill et al 2003;Schütte and Eklund 2005;Orsborn et al 2009) or other approaches (Yanagisawa and Fukuda 2005;Lai et al 2005).This research built on the first approaches to determine the relationships for vases and went a step further with the identification of the perceptions evoked when people wanted to own a vase. For research, this study contributes to establishing a methodology to further investigate the influence of perceptions, aesthetics, ownership and the background of consumers in other product categories.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Other approaches involve the consumer directly in the generation of the product's final form, for example by first defining the intended perception of the product and then allowing the consumer to interact with a computer software until he or she reaches the product form they expect for the defined perception (Yanagisawa and Fukuda 2005). In a similar approach, designers modify the factors identified as having significant influence to get closer to the intended perception that is defined at the start (Lai et al 2005). Blijlevens et al ask consumers to classify products from different categories as belonging to groups depending on their perception, and these were compared with the ones made by designers.…”

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Investigating the influence of product perception and geometric features

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Research in emotional design and kansei engineering has shown that aesthetics play a significant role in the appeal of a product. This paper contributes to establishing a methodology to identify the relationships between: perceptions, aesthetic features, desire to own and background of consumers. Surveys were conducted with 71 participants to gather their perceptions of 11 vase concepts. Advanced statistical analyses, including mixed models, were applied to allow generalisation of the results beyond the data sample. Significant relations between the desire to own a product and how the product is perceived were found (the desire to own was found to be related to beautiful, expensive, elegant, exciting, feminine, common and dynamic vases); as well as between the perceptions and the parameters describing the form of the vases (a vase was perceived as beautiful if it had many curved lines, was simple and tall). An automated mixed model analysis was conducted and revealed that general rules can be found between aesthetic features, perceptions and ownership, which can apply across gender and culture. The findings include design rules that link aesthetic features with perceptions. These contribute to research as guidelines for design synthesis and either be implemented via shape grammars or parametric modelling approaches. These rules are also interesting for 3D printing applications, especially important when the consumer is the designer. Some of these design rules are linked to the desire to own a product and they have implications for industry, they offer guidelines to creating attractive products that people want to own. Research in Engineering DesignNovember 2016 2 KEYWORDS Emotional design, kansei engineering, aesthetics, perception, product form and geometry.

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“…Kansei engineering can assess product appearance, but this method entails lengthy data acquisition and is thus not responsive to the very diverse range of consumer preferences. To overcome this weakness, other design methods (2)- (4) have been applied. The design method proposed in our previous study (4) adopts the Taguchi Method to efficiently determine stable design conditions with respect to the noise in customer emotions.…”

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The Ease of Grasping to Evaluate Aesthetically Pleasing PET Bottle Design

Widiyati

Aoyama

2013

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The objective of this paper is to propose a method to evaluate an aesthetically designed product from the viewpoint of grasping. Ease of grasping, which is considered to affect the ergonomic aspect of aesthetic design, is estimated by using the moment of force in the hand when grasping the aesthetically designed product. Two grasping position are used to evaluate the ease of grasp. These grasping positions are achieved when the hand exerts a minimum moment of force. A design support system was also developed based on the design method from the previous work and current proposed evaluation method. The system is capable of providing an aesthetic design solution and to subsequently perform the ease of grasping evaluation. The effectiveness of the proposed method was confirmed in ergonomics experiment using a PET bottle shape.

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“…Based on former research [5]and existing vehicle shape design literature, such as Lai et al, 2005, with the help of car designers, SUV design features and levels of each feature were finally defined from the 32 SUV products (shown in Table 7). Table 7.…”

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Consistency Study between Female Preferences for SUV Shape Design and Designer Comprehension of These Preferences for the Chinese Market

Li¹,

Shi-jian²

2017

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Abstract. Proportion of female consumers in Chinese Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV) market is rapidly growing, and appearance is the most important factor that affects their purchasing decision. However, little study about their preferences has been conducted. If traits and demands of target female consumers were not clearly understood, inconsistencies and deviation between consumer preferences and proposed designs for them might exist. In this study, traits, demands and preferences for SUV shape designof630 Chinese female were studied, then they were clustered into five typical groups. Then, 10 professional designers were invited to match SUVs for five groups, after that, a correlation analysis was conducted between the preferred SUVs of the five groups and the matched SUVs for them. Analysis results of two groups were negative correlations, which proved the real existence of misunderstanding of designers about traits and demands of female consumers. Finally, for a reference, feasible design solutions were provided for these two groups through a conjoint analysis based on their preference scores. The methods and final results could be incorporated into the SUV design process and provide references for the automobile industry.

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A robust design approach for enhancing the feeling quality of a product: a car profile case study

Cited by 112 publications

References 10 publications

Investigating the influence of product perception and geometric features

Investigating the influence of product perception and geometric features

The Ease of Grasping to Evaluate Aesthetically Pleasing PET Bottle Design

Consistency Study between Female Preferences for SUV Shape Design and Designer Comprehension of These Preferences for the Chinese Market

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