A Study Of Household Handles Design From The Perspective Of Kansei Engineering

With the development of more and more competitive consumer markets, the standard for consumers to evaluate consumption products has improved. The continuous increase of consumers' demands leads to the researches in Kansei engineering which is oriented to the feelings and demands of consumers. The theory of Kansei engineering and its related research methods are playing a significant role in designing modern products.Unlike the end of the 20th century featuring the approaching of feeling era, the consumer market in the 21st century has entered a new era which is much deeper than the feeling age. With the establishment and expansion of the furniture market, people have attached more attention to small household articles. In order to conforming to this trend, this thesis attempts to explore small household handles, hoping to provide some implications to mass designers.The author of this thesis firstly collects many household handles with various shapes from furniture markets and makes a thorough summary. Then necessary information including the origin of Kansei engineering, research methods and procedures is presented. This thesis focuses on analyzing the relationship between handles and their emotional images from the perspectives of such designing factors as shape, dimensional scale and texture.Finally, this thesis manages to combine the actual analysis of Kansei engineering with shapes design of handles, thus providing the guidelines for handles design. Based on the theory of Kansei engineering, research methods including questionnaires, semantic differential method and factor analysis are adopted to get adjective vocabularies with representative images and construct the relationship between emotional images and the characteristics of the products to some extent. In addition, a designing experience is carried out aiming at a specific service environment and consumer group.