A descriptive phenomenological approach to perception of affective quality in design inspiration

IF 3.2 1区工程技术 Q2 ENGINEERING, MANUFACTURING

Design Studies Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI:10.1016/j.destud.2021.101072

Vimalkrishnan Rangarajan, Prasad S. Onkar, Alison De Kruiff and Deirdre Barron

引用次数: 2

Abstract

The psychological term affective quality denotes the ability of objects to change how individuals feel when they encounter those objects. In design research, the affective qualities of inspirational materials and the perception of such affective qualities have been studied, mainly from a positivist standpoint. This involves experimental methodologies and tools like rating scales which imply objective measurements of perception of affective qualities to establish cause-effect relationships. However, affective quality is enmeshed in cultural and contextual frameworks. This implies that there can be subjective perceptions of affective quality that demand more descriptive research. This paper contextualises a descriptive phenomeological approach to study designers’ subjective perceptions of affective qualities of inspirational material. This approach fosters methodological diversity and theory-building research in design.

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设计灵感中情感品质感知的描述现象学方法

心理学术语“情感品质”指的是物体改变个体在遇到这些物体时的感受的能力。在设计研究中，人们主要从实证主义的角度研究灵感材料的情感品质以及对这种情感品质的感知。这涉及实验方法和工具，如评级量表，这意味着对情感品质的感知的客观测量，以建立因果关系。然而，情感品质受制于文化和语境框架。这意味着情感质量可能存在主观感知，需要更多的描述性研究。本文采用描述现象学的方法来研究设计师对灵感材料情感品质的主观感知。这种方法促进了设计方法的多样性和理论建设研究。

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Design Studies 工程技术-工程：制造

CiteScore

8.60

自引率

20.00%

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审稿时长

40 days

期刊介绍： Design Studies is a leading international academic journal focused on developing understanding of design processes. It studies design activity across all domains of application, including engineering and product design, architectural and urban design, computer artefacts and systems design. It therefore provides an interdisciplinary forum for the analysis, development and discussion of fundamental aspects of design activity, from cognition and methodology to values and philosophy. Design Studies publishes work that is concerned with the process of designing, and is relevant to a broad audience of researchers, teachers and practitioners. We welcome original, scientific and scholarly research papers reporting studies concerned with the process of designing in all its many fields, or furthering the development and application of new knowledge relating to design process. Papers should be written to be intelligible and pertinent to a wide range of readership across different design domains. To be relevant for this journal, a paper has to offer something that gives new insight into or knowledge about the design process, or assists new development of the processes of designing.