Print Email Facebook Twitter The influence of sensory product properties on affective and symbolic product experience Title The influence of sensory product properties on affective and symbolic product experience Author Fenko, A. Schifferstein, H.N.J. Faculty Industrial Design Engineering Department Industrial Design Date 2012-12-31 Abstract Creating pleasurable products requires understanding of the influence of sensory product properties on affective user experience and symbolic meaning of products. This paper gives an overview of a series of studies, in which we investigated the impact of sensory product properties (color, material, sound, smell, and taste) on affective user experiences (pleasure, annoyance, satisfaction, and surprise) and symbolic meanings of products (freshness, warmth, and noisiness). The results demonstrate that the pleasantness of a product could not always be predicted on the basis of the pleasantness of its sensory properties. The findings also suggest that sensory product properties might be linked to symbolic properties through metaphorical meaning of sensory adjectives. Subject product experience, sensory product properties, affective experience, symbolic meaning, sensory metaphors To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:0e62a807-fe39-439b-a6e3-5062550fb71b Publisher Cumulus Source Out of control; proceedings of the 8th international conference on design and emotion, London (UK), 11-14 Sept. 2012 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2012 Fenko, A., Schifferstein, H.N.J. Files PDF 283473.pdf 238.48 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:0e62a807-fe39-439b-a6e3-5062550fb71b/datastream/OBJ/view