Understanding Emotional Responses and Perception Within New Creative Practices of Biological Materials

Abstract

There is an increasing trend for designers to use living systems, through biodesign and biophilia in the urban environment. As new creative processes emerge, the perception and emotional responses of users towards these new systems are somewhat unknown. This paper aims to study the emotional responses and perceptions towards biological materials that are embedded in existing product designs. Data was collected from 58 respondents through an online questionnaire. The findings from this exploratory study show that the significant differences by comparing the respondents with a background in design and non-design towards the level of desirability, practicality, aesthetically pleasing and the common use towards artificial and real biological materials. This paper extends existing understanding of perception and emotional responses to design incorporated living systems and can begin validating existing studies which have brought different perspectives towards the functions, practicality, aesthetical value and emotional attachments of products.

The Effect of Incentives on Facilitating User Engagement with Succulent Retailers’ Social Media Pages

“…." (2) "Is it a unique gift for the opening ceremony? We wish the recipient to feel impressed by the giver and enjoy the ecstasy of happiness of the gift.…”

“…." (2) "Because of the cooler temperature this May, these succulents from the leaf cuttings grew faster. What an accomplished Spring!…”

“…Succulents are favored by many plant collectors and consumers due to their lovely appearance and good adaptability to arid climates or soil environments [1,2]. In the USA, the total sales volume of cacti and succulents grew almost twice from 2014 to 2019, rising from USD 40.9 to 78.5 million [3].…”

“…The objectives of this study are as follows: (1) to explore the context of the incentives embedded in the posts that motivate user engagement with succulent retailers' social media pages; (2) to compare the effectiveness of different incentives on motivating users' behavioral and emotional engagements. The findings of this study are helpful for succulent enterprises in regard to developing appropriate reward strategies to motivate both users' behavioral and emotional engagements with their social media pages.…”

A Speculation on the Potential Support of Bio-Inspired Design to Biologicalisation in Manufacturing

“…In this respect, a considerable number of recent contributions target the role of expertise of designers, technicians and biologists in the successful application of BID (Graeff et al, 2019;Hashemi Farzaneh, 2020;Letard et al, 2020). However, this limitation is partially alleviated in that BID is oriented to acquire biology knowledge without integrating biological elements into designs, differently from e.g., biophilic design (Sayuti and Ahmed-Kristensen, 2020). Likewise, this stronger biological-technical integration is foreseen when it comes to biologicalisation in manufacturing, markedly in terms of what is needed by bio-integrated or bio-intelligent manufacturing systems.…”