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How Do People Evaluate the Designed Artefacts?

  • Emika OkumuraEmail author
  • Toshimasa Yamanaka
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Abstract

Design artefacts can give us several impressions when we evaluate them. How do we evaluate and judge them? Research on artworks and design artefacts has been carried out to investigate the people’s feelings during an evaluation of objects for many centuries. Research on design artefacts is getting an increase in the aspect of design development process and the product evaluation. In this chapter, we present two studies related to the evaluation of the design artefacts: (1) a study on the evaluation of dot patterns compositions to investigate the people’s subtle feelings towards abstract stimuli by measuring physiological activities and (2) a framework of sense of visual dynamics towards structural designed artefacts to propose a concept and address the issues.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 15H02765Z and 18J10168. We appreciate icons made by Iconnice (desk icon) and Freepik (chair and face icon) from www.flaticon.com (Fig. 10.4).

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Kansei, Behavioural and Brain Sciences, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human SciencesUniversity of TsukubaTsukubaJapan
  2. 2.Faculty of Art and DesignUniversity of TsukubaTsukubaJapan

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