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Pieter Desmet is Associate Professor at the Department of Industrial Design Engineering, in the section Design Aesthetics. His background is in industrial design, and his research for his PhD degree focused on emotional product experience. His research has been published in several journals and presented at international platforms.

Pieter is interested in why and how consumer products evoke emotion, and in the development of tools and methods that facilitate emotion-driven design. He is an executive board member of the International Design for Emotion Society, and is a consultant to several international companies who develop products and services with an added emotional value.

Pieter is responsible for the Design Project 'Exploring Interation' of the IDE Master education 'Design for Interaction.'



TIPS

Design for Happiness Project
Hans Ruitenberg has published a blog on his graduation project 'design for happiness' in which he aims to develop tangible strategies for being a happy person. If you're interested, check his blog: http://designinghappiness.wordpress.com/

Student Research Internships
There are several possibilities for research internships. Depending on the interest of the student, (international) companies can be involved in the projects. If you are interested, have a look at some of the possible topics: http://www.studiolab.io.tudelft.nl/desmet/internships

PrEmo is now available!
Over the years we received many requests of researchers interested in using the PrEmo (Product Emotion Measurement) instrument. Recently we started a cooperation with the company SusaGroup. SusaGroup has developed several options for PrEmo usage. An example is an online version of the instrument that can be used to design and run experiments. If you are interested, please contact me (p.m.a.desmet@tudelft.nl) or visit http://www.susagroup.com/premo

interview design-emotion.com check out my interview with Marco van Hout at: http://www.design-emotion.com/2006/11/05/getting-emotional-with-dr-pieter-desmet

design & emotion society
The Design & Emotion society is a non-profit organisation that raises issues and facilitates dialogue among practitioners, researchers, and industry in order to integrate salient themes of emotional experience into the design profession. If you are interested in design & emotion reserach, you may want to consider becoming a (free) member of this society. Be sure to check the student showcases and the knowledge base. Visit the website: www.designandemotion.org

ENGAGE
ENGAGE is bringing together industry, research and design in the field of affective engineering, to create a knowledge community and realise best use of both current and future knowledge. The ENGAGE consortium consists of 21 project partners from 9 European countries, working together to make sure all the ENGAGE objectives are successfully reached. To create a valuable knowledge community, everybody interested in Affective Design is invited to become a member. ENGAGE is funded by the European 6th Framework Programme. Visit the website: www.engage-design.org

BOOK: Designing Emotions
The designing emotion research resulted in a dissertation that reports the development, validation, and application of an instrument to measure product emotions. In addition, the book reports a model that explains how products elicit emotions, and workshops in which the model is applied to generate emotional designs. More information: dissertation

 

contact

Pieter Desmet
Landbergstraat 15
2628CE Delft
The Netherlands
+31152783375
p.m.a.desmet@tudelft.nl

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Last update: Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 10:09:59 PM