Research on the Design Strategy of Healing Products for Anxious Users during COVID-19

With the spread of COVID-19 worldwide, various travel restrictions are becoming a significant trigger for anxiety. Although healing products could relieve anxiety, few scholars have proposed a practical design strategy. Therefore, we offer a design strategy for healing products that includes three p...

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Published in:International journal of environmental research and public health 2022-05, Vol.19 (10), p.6046
Main Authors: Wu, Fan, Lin, Yang-Cheng, Lu, Peng
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anxiety
Cluster analysis
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Criteria
Design
Disease transmission
Emotions
Grid method
Guidelines
Healing
Mental health
Research methodology
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Summary:With the spread of COVID-19 worldwide, various travel restrictions are becoming a significant trigger for anxiety. Although healing products could relieve anxiety, few scholars have proposed a practical design strategy. Therefore, we offer a design strategy for healing products that includes three phases: preparation, analysis, and verification. In Phase 1, 20 people with moderate or high anxiety are invited to rate 100 samples. Then, FCM is used to obtain representative samples. In Phase 2, a three-layer diagram (incl. the upper, middle, and lower layers) of healing products is obtained using the evaluation grid method. Subsequently, the middle layer is considered evaluation criteria. Additionally, 18 items in the lower layer are considered design guidelines. In Phase 3, we invite two teams to develop innovative designs based on design guidelines and personal experience, generating four alternatives. Finally, four alternatives and four healing commodities are evaluated using grey relation analysis and perceptual questionnaires. The consistency of both evaluations could confirm the validity of the evaluation criteria. The alternatives generated based on the design guidelines are better than other alternatives, demonstrating the effectiveness of the design guidelines. The design strategy is beneficial for developing and evaluating healing products to alleviate people's anxiety during COVID-19.
ISSN:1660-4601
1661-7827
1660-4601
DOI:10.3390/ijerph19106046