Study On Senile Furniture Emotioral Design

As our economic and social constant development, people pay more attention to the emotional appeal of products besides the pursuit of material enjoyment, and the emotional design which satisfies the people's emotional and spiritual needs has become an important design style.We choose the furniture for senior people which is closed to the elderly lives as a carrier with the specific emotional design ideas; and discuss the necessity of emotional design for the senior people. Based on the analysis of the theory of emotional design, the article concludes the emotional design of the furniture for old people has positive, popular, practical and symbolic features and should follow the safety, comfort and convenience design principle. At the same time, according to the related theory and research the article summarizes the definition of the emotional design of furniture for old people based on meeting their physiological and psychological needs. Through combination of the various forms, color, material and decorative elements, three different levels of emotional aspects:the instinctive level, behavior level and reflect levels melt into the furniture design and meet the emotional needs of the old people and stimulates their emotional resonance in the process of using the furniture. After analysing the old people's physiological and psychological needs, the furniture emotional design for the old people is reflected by balancing and pleasing appearance on the instinctive level, by happily and convenient control on the activity level, and cultural communication on the reflective level. This paper also does some design projects on the basis of the above emotional design research.It enriches the practical applications of the emotional design theory and provides reference for the furniture design.