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Exploring the fit between materials' expressive values and the self-expression of the end-user
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Abstract
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In industrial design, materials selection plays an important role. Being the interface of a product, a material does not only have to meet technical-functional requirements, but also has to include intended experiential characteristics. Unfortunately, there is no one-to-one correspondence between materials and their expressive value, since a material's perceived character is influenced by multiple contextual factors that are product-related (shape, function), user-related (gender, culture, etc.), and context-related (time, place, etc.). Our current research aims to explore possible relationships between materials, their expressive value and the link with self-expression of the end-user. It defines expressive value in terms of Schwartz end values. Consequently, this paper reveals insight in the expressive values that twelve pre-selected materials evoke in itself and in interaction with different pre-selected forms. Moreover, respondents are classified in meaningful self-expressive categories, based on their value orientation. For each of these segments, the materials and form-material combinations were investigated, both indirectly and directly, in relation to the fit between the expressive value of the material and the self-expression. Relationships were found between the self-perception and a material's fit with the self-expression, and between materials and their perceived expression of values. |
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Language
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English
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Source (book)
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Proceedings of the 20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association : Ergonomics in Design, Design for All, Activity Theories for Work Analysis and Design, Affective Design / Bagnara, Sebastiano [edit.]
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Source (series)
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Advances in intelligent systems and computing ; 824
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Publication
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Cham
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Springer international publishing ag
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2019
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ISBN
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978-3-319-96070-8
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978-3-319-96070-8
978-3-319-96071-5
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DOI
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10.1007/978-3-319-96071-5_215
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824
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, p. 2045-2066
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ISI
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000473061800204
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