Research paper
Elements of Surprise : Industrial Designers’ Strategies for Eliciting Surprise Through Interaction
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- Title
- Elements of Surprise : Industrial Designers’ Strategies for Eliciting Surprise Through Interaction
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- Victoria University of Wellington
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- Open Access Victoria University of Wellington
- Description
Fascinating designs can break our expectations and elicit a sense of surprise that first invokes our interest, increases the emotional intensity of an experience and may affect how we interact with our surroundings. Design researchers have identified the importance of surprise. Valuable studies have been carried out on the role of surprise as a design strategy (Ludden, Schifferstein, & Hekkert, 2008), on how appearance elicits emotions including surprise (Desmet, 2002; Desmet, Porcelijn, & va...
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- Research paper
- Research format
- Scholarly text / Thesis
- Thesis level
- Doctoral
- Date created
- 2023
- Creator
- Rodríguez Ramírez, Edgar Raymundo
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- https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/Elements_of_Surprise_Industrial_Designers_Strategies_for_Eli...
- Related subjects
- Other psychology not elsewhere classified / Industrial design / Surprise / Emotion / School: School of Design / Psychology and Cognitive Sciences not elsewhere classified / Marsden: 389999 Other Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences / Marsden: 299999 Engineering and Technology not Elsewhere Classified / Marsden: 419999 The Arts not Elsewhere Classified / Degree Discipline: Industrial Design / Degree Level: Doctoral / Degree Name: Doctor of Philosophy
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