Product pleasure enhancement: Cultural elements make significant difference

Tyan Yu Wu*

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Abstract

The aim of this paper is to examine the following arguments: 1) Products embedded with cultural elements have a greater chance to evoke a consumer's pleasure response than ones without; 2) A consumer perceiving the meaning of a cultural product in advance has a greater chance to evoke his/her pleasure than the one without perceiving; 3) Electromyography (EMG) is able to objectively assess consumers' pleasure evoked by a product. In this paper, EMG signal activity was collected as women (n=60) were exposed to three different stimuli. The results revealed that a product with cultural elements, (e.g. pictographic patterns) has a greater chance to evoke participants' pleasure than the one without. It also demonstrated that a consumer, perceiving a product's cultural meaning ahead of time have a stronger pleasure response than those without perceiving the meaning advance. The result shows that pleasant products are able to elicit greater activity over zygomaticus major.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationHCI International 2011 - Posters' Extended Abstracts - International Conference, HCI International 2011, Proceedings
Pages247-251
Number of pages5
EditionPART 1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Event14th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI International 2011 - Orlando, FL, United States
Duration: 09 07 201114 07 2011

Publication series

NameCommunications in Computer and Information Science
NumberPART 1
Volume173 CCIS
ISSN (Print)1865-0929

Conference

Conference14th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI International 2011
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityOrlando, FL
Period09/07/1114/07/11

Keywords

  • Cultural product
  • Emotional design
  • Facial Electromiography

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