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Designers are using the human senses as part of the form and experience of engaging in emotional mobility. There is a distinction between long-term and short-term emotional goals in mobility experience. However, the current emotional design theory lacks attention to the collateral effects. We developed a framework for sensory reflection, a designer’s approach to creating unique experiences. It aims to understand how designers abstract sensory information, disconnect deep personal emotions from the senses and encapsulate them in an emotional mobility design. Based on the Sensory Experience Design project of GAC R&D Center, this study further reports on the process and results of a workshop based on this framework, exploring the variability in designers’ understanding of emotional mobility in different temporal contexts. Through a sensory narrative approach, 36 designers used Sensory Reflection Inspired (SRI) cards to envision emotional mobility in four temporal contexts: ‘no theme’, ‘past’, ‘current’, and ‘future’. Designers commented on the SRI cards as useful. They agree that the cards can promote thinking in the early stages of design. And then, their narrative texts and the proportion of cards selected were counted. The results showed that the designers could clearly distinguish between different temporal contexts when doing their sensory reflective practices. No theme and ‘current’ themes led to a pattern of long-term emotional purpose. The ‘past’ and ‘future’ themes, on the other hand, led to designers’ sensory reflections that emphasized long-term emotional goals and incorporated thoughtful, emotional connotations.
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This research is supported by The Ministry of education of Humanities and Social Science project (21YJA760059), Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (S2020JJMSXM0802), National Social Science Foundation (20BG103). Sincerely thanks to those who provide enormous support to the Sensory Experience Design project of GAC R&D Center.
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Dai, N., Tan, Z., Lei, Y., Gao, X. (2022). Incorporating Sensory Reflection to Understand the Past, Current and Future Experience of the Emotional Mobility. In: Bruyns, G., Wei, H. (eds) [ ] With Design: Reinventing Design Modes. IASDR 2021. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4472-7_108
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