FORMULATING GUIDELINES FOR THE SYSTEMATIC SET-UP OF EXPERIENTIAL MATERIAL CHARACTERIZATION STUDIES: A CASE OF PLASTIC DEMONSTRATORS

Materials can be considered from a technical and experiential perspective. However, the latter perspective is more complex to study systematically. Four intertwined experiential levels describe the overall materials experience: sensorial, interpretive, affective, and performative level. Building upo...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Veelaert, Lore, Moons, Ingrid, Du Bois, Els
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Design
Citations: Items that this one cites
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:Materials can be considered from a technical and experiential perspective. However, the latter perspective is more complex to study systematically. Four intertwined experiential levels describe the overall materials experience: sensorial, interpretive, affective, and performative level. Building upon the need in experiential material characterization for comparable physical material representations to enable within-material-class comparisons and the inclusion of extensive user aspects, this paper sums up the reasoning process regarding the understanding and design of an experimental set-up and its parameters of a specific case. The case objective is to formulate guidelines for the designer/researcher to set up experiential material characterization experiments with (i) plastic demonstrator forms and (ii) by consumers. Following elements are discussed: Assessors, Stimuli, Interaction Modalities, Dependent variables, Method, and Practical considerations. Next, future experiments can be carried out in order to generate holistic plastic material data on a larger scale, that can be collected in an experiential database and used by designers throughout the design process.
ISSN:2732-527X
2732-527X
DOI:10.1017/pds.2021.420