If an individual’s preferences for products can reflect or enhance their self-concept, this suggests that understanding the underlying perceptual processes between the self-concept and product semantics can productively inform industrial design research.
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Furthermore, research has shown that individuals are implicitly drawn to products that reaffirm and communicate their self-concept. Accordingly, how products are perceived differs among individuals or consumers, particularly in the distinct experiences that contribute to constructing an individual’s sense of perception of self or self-concept. Deconstructing affective perceptions is a methodologically challenging task as it is implicit and subjective and is influenced by an individual’s aesthetic experience. Understanding product semantics and affective perceptions of product consumers undoubtedly offer significant value for industrial designers and their design practice. Finally, the findings in relation to the design of security door are discussed. The results also show that asymmetry, nails doors and electronic lock increase perceived security significantly. The influence of visual design factors on perceived security was confirmed in experiment 1. In the second experiment, 308 naïve participants estimated the perceived security of the security doors with ten morphological modifications (asymmetry curved edges reduced colorfulness rhomboid panels relief mullions nails engraved texture electronic lock double lock bronze door handle). For each model, participants indicated the perceived security on a 7-point rating scale. Experiment 1 verified the effect of different security door models on perceived security. This study investigates the impact of visual design factors on perceived security of security doors. The feeling of security of your own home is given both by the minimization of the real risk of infringement and by the conditions for minimizing the psychological threats experienced by the user. The role of perceptual constraints in drawing design artefacts is also discussed. This finding suggests that tertiary qualities convey both static and functional information about design objects. The link between smoothness and usefulness confirms that perceptual utility is significantly influenced by the shape of the object. The results confirmed a significant relation between smoothness and hardness as well as other (tertiary) associations. Importantly, each naïve rater saw only one of the two versions of an object. To test new tertiary associations, beyond aesthetic value, we obtained ratings for seven characteristics (‘soft/hard, sad/cheerful, male/female, bad/good, aggressive/peaceful, agitated/serene, useless/useful’) from 174 naïve observers.
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Each drawing had two versions: a smooth and an angular version.
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We used the drawings of everyday objects with novel shapes created by 56 designers (IUAV image dataset). The present study focuses on the effect of curvilinearity vs angularity on the aesthetic experience of design artefacts. By contrast, angular shapes tend to be associated with tertiary qualities such as threat, hardness, loudness, nervousness, etc. A large number of studies have focused on the aesthetic value of smoothly curved objects.