Course Description
We are surrounded by objects in our daily lives, whether it is functional, aesthetical, or evocative. How can we create objects that would elicit specific types of emotions from its users? In this hands-on studio course, students will be introduced to to a set of emotions taken from Plutchik’s emotion wheel (delight, peace, anxiety, disgust, dread), sensing inputs (light, sound, touch, etc), actuators (haptics, heat, moisture, etc), and medium (paper, wood, concrete, textile, silicone, resin, etc) to create affective and embodied artifacts. Prior to engaging in the design activity, students will conduct self-ethnography by observing their own emotional responses and documenting examples of objects that elicit specific types of emotions. Through a semester-long exploration, students will design and prototype affective objects and also perform user-evaluation of their prototyped objects.
Professor: Yihyun Lim, Trent Jones
Location: IYH, Room 111
Course number: PRIN525
Time: Wednesdays 5-7:50 PT