Basic semantics of product sounds

Title

Basic semantics of product sounds

 Author

Özcan Vieira, E.
Van Egmond, R.

Faculty

Industrial Design Engineering

 Department

Industrial Design

 Date

2012-12-31

 Abstract

Product experience is a result of sensory and semantic experiences with product properties. In this paper, we focus on the semantic attributes of product sounds and explore the basic components for product sound related semantics using a semantic differential paradigmand factor analysis. With two experiments, we determined eight factors that underlie the semantic associations of product sounds (attention, roughness, smoothness, temporal constancy, (un)familiarity, unpleasantness, machinery, and power). Correlations of the resultsfrom both experiments indicate that perceptual factors (attention, roughness, smoothness, and temporal constancy) influence cognitivefactors (power, machinery, and (un)familiarity) and emotional factors (unpleasantness).This finding suggests a hierarchical structure in themeaningful associations of product sounds. Furthermore, we have shown that product sound related semantics is sound type dependent

 Subject

product sounds, semantics, sound design, psychoacoustics, pleasantness, emotion

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 Publisher

Chinese Institute of Design

 ISSN

1991-3761

 Source

International Journal of Design, 6 (2), 2012

 Part of collection

Institutional Repository

 Document type

journal article

 Rights

(c) 2012 Özcan Vieira, E.,
Van Egmond, R.
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License
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