Aged people's emotion elicited by touching materials of armrests

Tyan Yu Wu, Chia Ying Peng

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Abstract

A chair with armrests is an important object required by aged people for sitting, when their physical strength decline gradually. Users' emotions can be evoked by touching material of the armrest. This study attempts to explore aged people's emotional responses as evoked by interaction with materials on armrests. An experiment was conducted to explore emotional responses evoked by touching six different materials of a armrest between aged people and young adults. The results indicate that a chair's armrests made from fabric can enhance users' pleasure senses better, as compared with the other five materials. The result also showed that aged people were willing to give a higher mean score on pleasure than young adults were.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEngineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics
Subtitle of host publicationApplications and Services - 10th International Conference, EPCE 2013, Held as Part of HCI International 2013, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages374-380
Number of pages7
EditionPART 2
ISBN (Print)9783642393532
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Event10th International Conference on Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics: Applications and Services, EPCE 2013, Held as Part of 15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI 2013 - Las Vegas, NV, United States
Duration: 21 07 201326 07 2013

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
NumberPART 2
Volume8020 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference10th International Conference on Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics: Applications and Services, EPCE 2013, Held as Part of 15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI 2013
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityLas Vegas, NV
Period21/07/1326/07/13

Keywords

  • Aged people
  • Emotion
  • Sense of touch

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