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Guidelines for Designing Stressful Emotion Relief Toys for Adults


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dc.contributor.advisorLau, Tin-Man
dc.contributor.authorMa, Jiaxuan
dc.date.accessioned2019-04-23T17:58:57Z
dc.date.available2019-04-23T17:58:57Z
dc.date.issued2019-04-23
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10415/6679
dc.description.abstractNowadays, the rapid development of society not only fulfill people’s material needs and allow them to focus more on their spiritual needs, but also stress people out. Stressful emotion relief toys are noticed by more and more people. But designing a stressful emotion relief toy can be a huge challenge for designers since there are few research and study on this field. By studying the stress related theories, emotional design, development of adult toy and several case studies, this thesis will establish a way of designing a stressful emotion relief toy systematically and scientifically. In this study, stressful emotion relief toys will be categorized into four types based on Norman’s emotional design principles. Also common strategies and design patterns used in case studies will be summarized. As a result, by applying the strategies that designers like and following the design principles, designer will be successful to design a functional stressful emotion relief toy.en_US
dc.subjectIndustrial and Graphic Designen_US
dc.titleGuidelines for Designing Stressful Emotion Relief Toys for Adultsen_US
dc.typeMaster's Thesisen_US
dc.embargo.statusNOT_EMBARGOEDen_US
dc.contributor.committeeArnold, Christopher
dc.contributor.committeeWindham, Jerrod

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