Open AccessInclusion of users’ material experience in sustainable product design: Case study of bio-based food packaging
Author(s) -
Sunhi Bak,
Novita Sakundarini,
Christina Chin
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/1092/1/012025
Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , semantic differential , feeling , kansei engineering , kansei , sample (material) , computer science , user experience design , product design , sustainable design , product (mathematics) , psychology , human–computer interaction , applied psychology , sustainability , social psychology , mathematics , paleontology , chemistry , ecology , geometry , chromatography , biology
A user’s feeling plays a significant part in determining the success of a product design. This is because emotionally attractive design can arouse interest from a user and be able to meet his or her expectation during consumption. Nevertheless, it is hard to measure, evaluate and analyse this feeling since there is a discrepancy occurs between different user’s evaluation and lack of feasible process to be carried out. This paper presents a study on bio-based materials characterization based on users’ perception in the context of sustainable design, specifically for food packaging design. The aims of this study are to investigate the relationship of bio-based material’s characteristics and the user’s perception and develop a guideline for designers to integrate affective values into conceptual design and explore its linkage with material selection. The research approach breaks into two stages which are development of survey instrument and computer-based tool. Two surveys were carried out to obtain the affective values and the feelings evoked by the participants when they are presented with visual and tactile stimuli of the materials. Semantic differential scale and one sample t-test were used to perform the evaluation and analysis of the results. Based on the survey, significant affective values for each of bio-based materials can be identified as follow: sugar cane and starch-based materials is perceived as an eco-friendly material. Wood, paper, and palm leaf is perceived as natural material. PLA as elegant material and bamboo as strong material. This study’s quantitative method shows in detail the variation of users’ perception in terms of cognitive and affective and provide a useful proposed guideline that is applicable in any product design which involves with users’ emotional experience.