Study of Emotional Response to Physical Interaction

Boram Lee

These days, emotional qualities are becoming more important for product interactions and interfaces. Typically, a product’s emotional quality is enhanced through visual attributes such as color and form. However, to maximize a product’s emotional value, physical and tactual experience of using a product have recently been the focus of growing attention. Our research is focused on relating physical movement with appropriate tactual properties to increase emotional value of a product or an interaction. disconnected and slow movement is suitable for expressing oppressed and sad emotions. We assumed that certain physical movement and tactile attributes can evoke specific emotional response and tried to find out how certain combination of physical movements and tactile attributes influence to elicitation of user’s emotion.