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Affective and Pleasurable Values That Ergonomics Provides to the Product Design Inspired and Produced from Natural Amazon Resources

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Advances in Affective and Pleasurable Design

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For centuries, people have created and refined products. Nowadays the consumers are looking for emotional benefits rather than utilitarian performance. The challenge today is to switch from material product dimensions to a holistic view of consumer experience. The design products inspired by natural elements and produced by raw natural materials may contribute to this satisfaction. Through ergonomic inputs about the human factors on multisensory perception of a product, we conducted a study to identify the affective and pleasure values, and to estimate their pertinence, in a product conception inspired and produced with natural Amazon resources. A quantitative technique, based on a questionnaire during a product exhibition, was employed. People appreciate the use of natural raw materials in the creation of new products, preferring mainly to natural product finishes preferring mainly to natural product finishes, its unique character, the textures and the historical and cultural values. The implications and limitations of the approach are discussed and further research steps indicated.

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Acknowledgments

The research presented in this paper was developed as part of an Invited Researcher project sponsored by CAPES, the Brazilian governmental institution, whom we must thank for this good opportunity.

This project had the multidisciplinary technical and scientific support of a team of researchers in botany and forest products of the National Institute of Amazonian Research—INPA and experts in related fields; researchers and teachers from Design Department from University Federal of Amazonas—DEG/UFAM; and saw strengthen partnerships with international institutions such as the Universitat Politècnica de València—UPV, Spain—through the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería del Diseño—ETSID and the Centro Tecnologico da Pedra Natural Portuguesa—CEVALOR from Portugal; who participated in the training team members to work in project Design and Production Engineering, focused on the use of natural resources for the management and manufacture of products in order to enhance and appreciate the sociocultural, economic and sustainable eco aspects. For all members and participants of the project our most sincere thanks!

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  1. Department of Strategy, Sustainable Development and Entrepreneurship, Kedge Design School, Toulon, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France

    Susana Paixão-Barradas

  2. Laboratório de Produção Gráfica (LABGRAFIC), Departamento de Design E Expressão Gráfica (DEG), Faculdade de Tecnologia (FT), Universidade Federal do Amazonas (UFAM), Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil

    Karla Mazarelo & Mirella de Sousa

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Paixão-Barradas, S., Mazarelo, K., de Sousa, M. (2017). Affective and Pleasurable Values That Ergonomics Provides to the Product Design Inspired and Produced from Natural Amazon Resources. In: Chung, W., Shin, C. (eds) Advances in Affective and Pleasurable Design . Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 483. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41661-8_40

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