Driven by the competitive market that product designers face today, a growing interest
emerges in exploring experiential material qualities to enhance product experience. The …

Materials help communicate meaning to users. This meaning changes with time as the
object transforms due to use. Through a two-phase study, this research develops new …

Based on product semantics, this study investigated how the tactile attributes of wood and
wood-based composites are perceived and interpreted semantically. The wood-based …

Tactile experiences of textile materials are difficult to communicate and elicit. To interrogate
this space we propose the tactile triangle, a framework to facilitate systematic analysis and …

This study used the verbal protocol method to examine differences in perceptions of spatial
mental imagery between students and studio lecturers and between clients and …

This article delves into the core of material competence in primary school craft education.
The Basic Education Curriculum 2014 states that one of the goals of craft education in …

Material selection in additive manufacturing (AM) is typically driven by the need to meet
specific functional characteristics, often resulting in objects with limited user experiential …

This paper investigated the in-depth cognitive levels of artisans (craft artisans) and
designers (design trainers) as they observed design problems (in the early stage of idea …

This study proposed a fundamental technique for evaluating the preferences of interior
space users by capturing their verbally expressed preferences and then determining word …

How do consumers experience the materials in products around them? And how can we
capture these experiential qualities of materials into information for designers? These …