Sensory evolution

Abstract

Today, design implies not only compliance with product technical-functional requirements but also with increasingly broader cultural demands for correct life cycle performance with regard to man and the environment: sensory attributes and sustainability respectively. The various disciplines involved have made considerable progress recently, developing tools and methods that, interconnected and also with the development of neuro-sciences, are able to furnish ever more realistic, scientific and objective explanations of how we perceive the world. Sensory Evolution, Spin-off of Politecnico di Torino now being set up, places sensory and sustainability analysis of products/services at different stages of development (from concept to the meta-project, to the project, to the existing product) at the core of the offer. Sensory Evolution proposes new, original tools and methods, also patented by the same team, and have transformed theoretical and scientific innovations into strategic instruments dedicated to both large, small and medium enterprises, such as the ICS (Innovation, Comprehension Sustainability) methodology. This methological approach is a unique, innovative reality that may entail major advantages for clients. The approach adopted neither precludes nor underestimates the major theoretical weight underlying this offer model. In this way Sensory Evolution addresses companies that produce something perceptible, such as product or service. General TermsDesign, Human Factors, Theory. KeywordsDesign project, materials and products, sensory and sustainable profile. Figure 3. Eye tracking: example of Heatmaps test on virtual models of car seat projects. The "hot" (red) intense zones represent the areas of the stimulus observed to a major extent by the subjects.

Sensory Probes: An Exploratory Design Research Method for Human-Food Interaction

“…Our work draws from three HCI research areas that have developed largely independently, with limited integration, such as work on designing for human-food interaction [23], multisensory interaction [14,42,56], and design probes inspired by cultural probes [18].…”

“…The advent of novel technologies supporting interaction through touch, taste, and smell has paved the way to new guidelines for multisensory design [14,42,56]. Most such guidelines have framed multisensory experience as a compound experience that can be deconstructed into individual sensory ones through reference to body parts [56] or metaphors pertaining to synesthesia [42], which then can be used to reconstruct these individual sensory phenomena into broader multisensory experiences [14].…”

“…Approaches. An important aspect of designing for bodily and multisensory experiences is the ability to articulate idiosyncratic personal experiences [14]. Although co-designing approaches offer accessible ways to access them [9], novice users may find it challenging to become aware of, and articulate their embodied and sensorially rich experiences.…”

“…This opens up the design space for multisensory design to not only attend to what is noticed or present, but also to what is missed or imperceptible to an individual. Sensory probes support an approach to design which recognizes the role of the individual in each sensory experience and thus moves beyond the more general approaches to which merely deconstruct and reassemble sensory experiences [14,42,56]. In contrast, our Sensory augmentation/deprivation probes place the multisensory experience within the context of the body perceiving it.…”

“…In this way the gameboard drew inspiration from the Sensory evaluation tools for non-experts such as check-all-that-apply [4]. The gameboard probe suggests that multisensory design tools which were created mostly for designers [11,14], could also benefit users to better understand their bodily experiences.…”