311 research outputs found
Mood Regulation as a Design Topic: Interview with Pieter Desmet
No full textPieter Desmet is the founding co-director of the Delft Institute of Positive Design, chair of the TU Delft Department of Human Centered Design, and Director of the Delft Design Labs. After introducing cognitive emotion theory to the field of design research, he established the Design and Emotion Society. Full professor of Design for Experience at TU Delft, Desmet is also co-editor of Design and Emotion Moves (Cambridge Scholars, 2008) and co-author of Positive Design: An Introduction to Design for Subjective Well-Being (IJDesign, 2013). Pieter Desmet, who holds a PhD in the domain of Emotion Psychology, has been recently awarded a five-year personal grant to research about the nuances of human mood in human-product interactions. Besides his academic activities, he also contributes to local community projects, such as a recently developed sensory wellness neighborhood park, and a cultural ‘House of Happiness’ located in Rotterdam. In this interview, Desmet discusses the background to positive design, as well as the practical and ethical challenges that arise from using such an approach. He also refers to his latest research initiative: Design for Mood Regulation. Finally, Desmet explains how he transfers the knowledge he develops to companies
Mood Regulation as a Design Topic: Interview with Pieter Desmet
No full textPieter Desmet is the founding co-director of the Delft Institute of Positive Design, chair of the TU Delft Department of Human Centered Design, and Director of the Delft Design Labs. After introducing cognitive emotion theory to the field of design research, he established the Design and Emotion Society. Full professor of Design for Experience at TU Delft, Desmet is also co-editor of Design and Emotion Moves (Cambridge Scholars, 2008) and co-author of Positive Design: An Introduction to Design for Subjective Well-Being (IJDesign, 2013). Pieter Desmet, who holds a PhD in the domain of Emotion Psychology, has been recently awarded a five-year personal grant to research about the nuances of human mood in human-product interactions. Besides his academic activities, he also contributes to local community projects, such as a recently developed sensory wellness neighborhood park, and a cultural ‘House of Happiness’ located in Rotterdam. In this interview, Desmet discusses the background to positive design, as well as the practical and ethical challenges that arise from using such an approach. He also refers to his latest research initiative: Design for Mood Regulation. Finally, Desmet explains how he transfers the knowledge he develops to companies
Mood Regulation as a Design Topic: Interview with Pieter Desmet
No full textPieter Desmet is the founding co-director of the Delft Institute of Positive Design, chair of the TU Delft Department of Human Centered Design, and Director of the Delft Design Labs. After introducing cognitive emotion theory to the field of design research, he established the Design and Emotion Society. Full professor of Design for Experience at TU Delft, Desmet is also co-editor of Design and Emotion Moves (Cambridge Scholars, 2008) and co-author of Positive Design: An Introduction to Design for Subjective Well-Being (IJDesign, 2013). Pieter Desmet, who holds a PhD in the domain of Emotion Psychology, has been recently awarded a five-year personal grant to research about the nuances of human mood in human-product interactions. Besides his academic activities, he also contributes to local community projects, such as a recently developed sensory wellness neighborhood park, and a cultural ‘House of Happiness’ located in Rotterdam. In this interview, Desmet discusses the background to positive design, as well as the practical and ethical challenges that arise from using such an approach. He also refers to his latest research initiative: Design for Mood Regulation. Finally, Desmet explains how he transfers the knowledge he develops to companies
A framework of technology-supported emotion measurement
No full textEmotion measurement is a vital aspect for new product development and product improvements (see e.g. P. Desmet & Schifferstein, 2012). Nowadays, new technological devices, data mining, and social media offer many opportunities to invigorate design research. This paper tries to combine both aspects by exploring the question, how new technologies can be utilized for emotion-focused design research. The range of applicable technologies spans from eye-tracking, to EEG measuring, to semiautomated facial expression recognition in photographs or texts based on data mining technologies or crowdsourcing, etc. Furthermore, many traditional technologies for emotion tracking are becoming smaller and mobile, which allows also in-field research (e.g. mobile EEG headsets). Triangulating different data sources might result in new insights and improve user research significantly. This paper provides an overview of related literature indicating the current state of emotion measurement in the design field, and presents a framework that outlines possible new approaches utilizing new technologies. Thus, this work might contribute as a source of inspiration for other researchers to develop new research approaches for technology-supported emotion measurement.Design AestheticsOLD Design Theory and Methodolog
Positive Emotional Granularity Cards
No full textPeople can experience at least 25 different positive emotions in response to a product or a service (Desmet, 2012). This card-set demonstrates that ‘feeling good’ in humanproduct interaction has many different shades. We believe that the ability to deliberately design for such nuanced positive experiences starts with the ability todistinguish these nuances
The impact of strategy on supply chain and forecasting
No full textIn this provocative article, Bram Desmet explores how a company's market strategy affects its supply chain targets and forecasting methodology. The author introduces the concept of the supply chain triangle to illustrate the balancing act a company must perform to achieve the cost, service, and inventory mix that maximizes its return on capital employed. He then shows how the company's strategic choice, be it operational excellence, product leadership, or customer intimacy, influences the position it seeks on the supply chain triangle and, in particular, its inventory target
Taking two to tango: the joint prospective assessment of pension sustainability and adequacy in Belgium
No full textThis presentation discusses how such integrated approach using shared demographic and macroeconomic assumptions has been developed in Belgium. It describes the dynamic microsimulation model MIDAS, highlighting how it aligns to the simulation results of the semi-aggregate model MALTESE. The authors would like to thank Jean-Maurice Frère and Michel Englert for their valuable comments on a previous version of this paper.Pensions; adequacy; sustainability; microsimulation
Happiness within Organizations: a process to aid in achieving a happiness mindset
No full textHappiness is something we, as humans, seek to attain yet we are not entirely familiar with what exactly it means. Typology of fundamental needs (Desmet & Fokkinga, 2020) explains comprehensively, yet detailed enough, the needs we must fulfil in order to be happy. An average person spends a third of their life at work (Pryce-Jones, 2010) and in that one-third of life, how those needs get fulfilled or harmed influences the happiness of an individual. Scholars of positive psychology argue that “positive states help people to thrive, mentally flourish and grow psychologically” (Frederickson, 2001). At the same time, happy people have been proven to be up to 20% more productive (Sgroi, 2015). Therefore, not only as a social responsibility should an organization put their focus on employee happiness but as an economic benefit as well. However, the vast science of happiness and the nature of the context (an organization) makes it an “open” or “wicked” challenge (Bijl-Brouwer et al., 2019). The challenge starts from analyzing happiness of employees within an organization, then introducing initiatives to improve happiness and finally, tracking the progress and effectiveness. However, the current scenario and limitations of happiness within organizations combined with the multi-faceted nature of happiness hints towards an even bigger challenge: achieving a happiness mindset.This project is an attempt to operationalize the typology of fundamental needs within the context of an organization in order to aid in achieving a happiness mindset. Borrowing knowledge from systems thinking and phenomenological hermeneutics, a theoretical framework is developed which is translated into a practical approach and tested on 4 different cases. The learnings and real life narratives obtained from this practical approach are utilized in developing the final outcome: “Ajar Process”. It is a 4 step process: Awareness, Alignment, Action and Acknowledgement. It starts with making the participants aware of the typology of fundamental needs, making them capable of sorting their real life experiences according to the need fulfillment. This awareness is then mutually aligned with all participating individuals, so that the perception of what happiness means in that context is similar for everyone. This prompts meaningful conversations leading everyone into a pro-active attitude, coming up with mutually decided initiatives to improve the happiness through need fulfillment. Eventually, the effectiveness of those initiatives is evaluated and a decision is made which step of the process to go to next. In this way, the process never ends and a repeated use results in a happiness mindset. Design concepts are proposed per step of the Ajar process which aid in executing that step effectively. Ajar process is presented as a service expansion for Emotion Studio (design agency) where they would offer to execute the first sprint of the process within the organization and hand it over to them for future executions.Typology of Fundamental Needs used as a core for this project is a work by Desmet and Fokkinga, 2020. Desmet, P.M.A., & Fokkinga, S.F. (2020). Beyond Maslow’s pyramid: Introducing a typology of thirteen fundamental needs for human-centered design. Multimodal Technologies and Interactions, 4(3), 38 (DOI mti4030038)Strategic Product Desig
Inverse dynamic load distribution identification for a passenger car tire using vibration responses
No full textsponsorship: The author gratefully acknowledges the European Commission for its support of the Marie Sklowodowska Curie program through the ETN PBNv2 project (GA 721615). (European Commission|GA 721615)status: Publishe
'Feeling good' unpacked: Developing design tools to facilitate a differentiated understanding of positive emotions
No full text The range of positive emotions experienced in human-product interactions is diverse, and understanding the differences and similarities between these positive emotions can support emotion-driven design. Yet, there is little knowledge about what kind of tool would be effective to leverage the differentiated nature of positive emotions in a design process. The current study explores the possibilities to develop design tools that facilitate a nuanced understanding of positive emotions and the considerations for developing such tool. Four new tools were developed that were different regarding how they described distinctiveness of positive emotions, formats, and usages. This paper introduces the tools and reports a focus group study that investigated when and how the tools would be of use in design processes, and their strengths and weaknesses. Design Aesthetic
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