Design for the Manufacture of a Video Game Controller Applying Emotional Design

Abstract

In today’s society, technology dominates most areas of human life. In particular, video games play an important role and manufacturing companies do not stop innovating to present their interactivity and playability through the hardware they introduce in the market. To be competitive in this sector it is necessary to innovate from the early stages of design to obtain products that are totally innovative in their form and interactivity but that do not cause difficulties in the subsequent manufacturing phase. By applying emotional design methodologies we will be able to establish requirements and design specifications necessary to present innovative controls to the market and facilitate the subsequent manufacturing processes. This method will be applied considering the haptic part of the controller, mainly the enveloping part, to define its characteristics, from the manufacturing point of view, to obtain an innovative product that connects with the emotions and sensations of the end user, including new functionalities in the market. To design the external part of the controller through the proposed methodology for the design of the external surfaces, also for the grips, ergonomics will be taken into account.