The Aesthetic Experience of Product Design: A Case Study of the Consumption of Earphones in Hong Kong

Lam, Magnum Man Lok; Liu, Wing Sun; Lam, Elita Yee-Nee

doi:10.1080/14606925.2016.1150659

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“…The aim of these interviews was to reveal how young urban Chinese consumers appropriate meanings and display a sense of their aesthetic judgment and taste distinction in their consumption of fashion-clothing to resolve identity conflicts in their counters with migrant consumers that have in their view “invaded” their city as a result of government-led urbanization. All interviews were conducted using nondirective questioning techniques, adopting semi-structured and open-ended format, to encourage extended, detailed and comprehensive descriptions of the participants' subjective lived experiences, thoughts and feelings on their acculturation experiences, as well as their aesthetic judgment (Lam et al , 2016). The interview covered four key parts, including (1) background and life-history of informants, (2) perception toward Canton culture and regional identity, (3) impression toward rural migrants living in the city and (4) the impact of rural-urban migration on their everyday life and consumption choices.…”

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Dissociative fashion practices and identity conflicts: local resistance as a response to clothing acculturation in the context of rural–urban migration

Lam¹,

Liu³

2021

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PurposeThe purpose of the present study is to examine how local consumers disassociate themselves from migrants' acculturative practices and negotiate their identity through the symbolic consumption of fashion.Design/methodology/approachData for this interpretive study were obtained via phenomenological interviews with locally-born Chinese youth in Guangzhou, China, to examine their acculturative consumption practices as well as their subjective experiences of perceived threats to their lifestyle imposed by the influx of outsiders. Snowballing and purposive sampling methods were adopted in recruiting the research participants.FindingsData analyses revealed that local consumers adopt three dissociative strategies (stigmatization, avoidance and self-assertion) in order to ascribe meanings to their fashion consumption practices as a means of resolving identity conflicts and differentiate themselves from the migrant consumers.Research limitations/implicationsThis research offers a single perspective (i.e. that of local-born young consumers residing in Guangzhou) on the locals' attitudes aimed at distinguishing and negotiating their identities in an intercultural setting via specific fashion-clothing choices. This research has theoretical implications for the consumer acculturation theory and identity negotiation.Practical implicationsFindings yielded by the present study have important implications for commercial companies focusing on fashion consumption, in particular for marketing practices aimed at rural-urban identification and youth market segmentation.Social implicationsThis study contributes to the existing discussion on consumer acculturation by offering an intracultural perspective to the understanding of local consumers' responses to migrants' acculturation. It also provides managerial insights for fashion retailers, prompting them to rethink their market segmentation strategies to address population mobility in the marketplace and better understand how it alters the in-between social relationships that result in different consumption patterns and practices.Originality/valueThis study contributes to the existing discussion on youth consumer acculturation theories by offering an intercultural perspective to the understanding of local consumers' responses to migrants' acculturation attempts. It also offers managerial insights for fashion retailers, prompting them to rethink their market segmentation strategies to address population mobility and better understand how it alters the social relationships that result in different consumption patterns and practices.

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Dissociative fashion practices and identity conflicts: local resistance as a response to clothing acculturation in the context of rural–urban migration

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Liu³

2021

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“…The characteristics of consumption are experience, emotion, personalization, leisure, and beautification. Literature [33] believes that people consume, not only buy things, but also hope to get an emotional experience, the experience of beauty, that is, aesthetics as the object of consumption. Reference [33][34][35] believes that products with technical aesthetics not only give people a sense of beauty in appearance but also make people more comfortable to use.…”

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“…Literature [33] believes that people consume, not only buy things, but also hope to get an emotional experience, the experience of beauty, that is, aesthetics as the object of consumption. Reference [33][34][35] believes that products with technical aesthetics not only give people a sense of beauty in appearance but also make people more comfortable to use. Literature [36] proposed from the macro perspective of society that establishing a scientific design concept, establishing an identification system, and establishing a modern design talent training system are three ways to enhance the aesthetic value of the overall product in society.…”

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Aesthetic Value Evaluation for Digital Cultural and Creative Products with Artificial Intelligence

Liang

2022

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

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The domestic cultural and creative industry has abundant resource advantages and broad development space. The design for cultural and creative products has evolved rapidly with the objective to improve its quality. The cultural and creative industries have seen rapid growth in the recent years wherein digital technologies have been incorporated with the traditional methodologies. The digital cultural and creative aspect acts are extremely important in the dissemination of traditional culture on the network platform. This is also supported by the state vigorously to implement innovative industrial policies. However, the adoption of digital technology in the cultural and creative industry is a novel approach. But there exists lack of understanding in terms of its nature and development protocols. It is thus necessary to study relevant theories to guide the development of digital cultural and creative industry. The increasingly prosperous aesthetic culture, especially development for cultural and creative industries, has comprehensively improved aesthetic value of the cultural and creative products. Therefore, the methods to evaluate and realize the aesthetic value of digital, cultural, and creative products are extremely important and relevant in the present day and age. In this study, neural network is used to design an improved back propagation (BP) network in order to evaluate the aesthetic value of digital cultural and creative products. At the outset, the basic idea, structural characteristics, the learning algorithm, and its flow of functioning in the BP network are analyzed. Then, an aesthetic value evaluation model of digital cultural and creative products with BP network is developed. Next, considering the shortcomings of BP network, a segmentation adaptive strategy is used to improve the view field and step size for artificial fish swarm algorithm (AFSA). Finally, the improvised algorithm is verified wherein the simulation results reveal improvement in algorithm convergence speed as well as improvement in optimal solution accuracy as part of the adaptive improvement approach.

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“…Without understanding, thinking about, and attempting to apply each principle, it is impossible to foster the "DE mindset" needed to guide implementation (Patton, 2016). While Patton (2016) andother DE practitioners (Beer, 2019;Beer et al, 2019;Blanchet-Cohen & Langlois, 2010;Gamble, 2008;Lam 2016;Lam & Shulha, 2015;Langlois et al, 2012;Patton et al, 2015) have shared vital considerations about how to design and conduct the DE approach, existing literature does not go so far as to systematically evaluate how DE theory is applied in practice.…”

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Developmental Evaluation in Theory versus Practice: Lessons from Three Developmental Evaluation Pilots

Esper

Fatehi

Baylor³

2021

J Multidiscip Eval

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Background. Developmental Evaluation (DE) practitioners turn to DE theory to make design and implementation decisions. However, DE practitioners can experience difficulty in fully understanding how to implement DE using theory because it is method agnostic (Patton, 2016). Instead, DE is a principle-based approach. Purpose. This article presents an empirical examination of how DE theory was (or was not) applied during three DE pilots. Our analysis aims to better understand how DE theory is used in practice to expand the evidence base and strengthen future DE implementation. Setting. A consortium of three organizations implemented three DE pilots through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) from November 2016 to September 2019. The authors—who participated in the consortium—did not implement the DEs but instead conducted a study or meta-evaluation across the DE pilots. Data Collection and Analysis. This article focuses on the results of an ex post facto analysis of three DE pilots based on the entire DE implementation experience. For each DE studied, we used mixed methods to collect data on the effectiveness of the DE approach, to identify adaptations to strengthen DE implementation in the USAID context, and to measure its value to stakeholders. Data included more than 100 hours of interviews, 465 pages of qualitative data, and 30 surveys completed by DE participants. Findings. We find that the ability to apply the DE principles in practice is influenced, in no particular order, by DE participant buy-in to the DE, the Developmental Evaluator’s aptitude, support and resources available to the Developmental Evaluator, and the number of DE participants. We also find that buy-in can change and this should be closely monitored throughout a DE to inform whether a DE should be paused or prematurely ended. Keywords: Developmental Evaluation; developmental evaluator skills; buy-in; DE practice; DE funder; meta-evaluation

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The Aesthetic Experience of Product Design: A Case Study of the Consumption of Earphones in Hong Kong

Cited by 6 publications

References 55 publications

Dissociative fashion practices and identity conflicts: local resistance as a response to clothing acculturation in the context of rural–urban migration

Dissociative fashion practices and identity conflicts: local resistance as a response to clothing acculturation in the context of rural–urban migration

Aesthetic Value Evaluation for Digital Cultural and Creative Products with Artificial Intelligence

Developmental Evaluation in Theory versus Practice: Lessons from Three Developmental Evaluation Pilots

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