In this prototype, I want to know the association of texture and emotion. I used 4 different textures and put them into a box, in order to hide the appearance. I asked the participant to touch the texture without looking at it and describe the emotion that related to the texture. The reason I chose to hide the texture is that I planned to use digital touch to simulate the haptic, so it would be better to let the participant touch the “unseen texture”.
Hypothesis:
People are able to connect specific texture with the emotion and find our the pattern of it.
Prototype:
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User Testing:
Result:
The outcome showed that people tend to relate the soft texture with positive emotion and the rough or spinous texture with negative emotion.
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