Designing interaction with consumer products in a multisensory virtual reality environment: This paper shows how Virtual Reality technology can be used instead of physical artifacts or mock-ups for the new product and evaluation of its usage

Virtual and Physical Prototyping

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 51-64

  Bordegoni, Monica ^a   Ferrise, Francesco ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

haptic interaction design; virtual environments; virtual prototyping

Indexed keywords

AESTHETIC QUALITIES; FUNCTIONAL FEATURES; HAPTIC INTERACTIONS; PHYSICAL ARTIFACTS; VIRTUAL PROTOTYPE; VIRTUAL PROTOTYPING; VIRTUAL REALITY TECHNOLOGY; VIRTUAL-REALITY ENVIRONMENT;

CONSUMER PRODUCTS; DOMESTIC APPLIANCES; MOCKUPS; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; SENSORY PERCEPTION; VIRTUAL REALITY;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 84876978016     PISSN: 17452759     EISSN: 17452767     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17452759.2012.762612     Document Type: Article

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