EMOTIONAL EVALUATION OF CHAIRS GENERATED USING A MOTION CAPTURE SYSTEM A study on using the movement of the human body to create shapes, part 1

This paper introduces a new architectural design method based on human movement as a design resource. It is designed to assess the emotional aspects of the shapes of products based on the movement of the body. A chair was designed based on the action of a mother holding a child in her arms; emotional evaluation was conducted by using the semantic differential technique. Finding includes, 1) most impressive adjective word is “flow”. 2) most effective factor in likes and dislikes is “comfort”. 3) the role of the designer is very important to enhance impressions of “comfort” in design process.