A psychological ownership approach to designing object attachment

Journal of Engineering Design

Volumn 26, Issue 4-6, 2015, Pages 140-156

  Baxter, Weston L ^a   Aurisicchio, Marco ^a   Childs, Peter R N ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

affordance design; design strategy; emotional attachment; object attachment; psychological ownership

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING;

AFFORDANCES; DESIGN STRATEGIES; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENTS; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL OWNERSHIP;

DESIGN;

EID: 84931578093     PISSN: 09544828     EISSN: 14661837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09544828.2015.1030371     Document Type: Article

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