A semantic differential study of designers' and users' product form perception

International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 375-391

  Hsu, Shang H ^a   Chuang, Ming C ^a   Chang, Chien C ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Conceptual model; Kansei engineering; Product semantics; Semantic differential method

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRODUCT DESIGN; SPECIFICATIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TELEPHONE SETS;

CONCEPTUAL MODEL; KANSEI ENGINEERING; PRODUCT SEMANTICS; SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL METHOD;

ERGONOMICS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TECHNIQUE; TECHNOLOGY; TELEPHONE; VISION;

EID: 0343503025     PISSN: 01698141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-8141(99)00026-8     Document Type: Article

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