Perception of products by progressive multisensory integration. A study on hammers

Applied Ergonomics

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 652-664

  Vergara, Margarita ^a   Mondragón, Salvador ^a   Sancho Bru, Joaquín Luis ^a   Company, Pedro ^a   Agost, María Jesús ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

Author keywords

Emotional design; Multisensory integration; Semantic differential

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; ERGONOMICS; HAMMERS; INTEGRATION; PHOTOGRAPHY; QUALITY CONTROL; SEMANTICS;

COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS; DIFFERENT STAGES; DYNAMIC EFFECTS; EMOTIONAL DESIGN; MULTISENSORY INTEGRATION; PHYSICAL INTERACTIONS; SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIAL; VISUAL-HAPTIC;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ERGONOMICS; FEMALE; GENERAL APPARATUS, EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; HAMMER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MULTISENSORY INTEGRATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; SEMANTICS; SENSORY SYSTEM; TOOL USE; TOUCH; VISION;

EID: 79953728178     PISSN: 00036870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2010.09.014     Document Type: Article

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