Auditory and Visual Contributions to Affective Product Quality
Elif Özcan
Department of Industrial Design, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
Elif Özcan is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at the Delft University of Technology where she is connected to the Sound Design Lab, Perceptual Intelligence Lab and Delft Institute for Positive Design. Her research interests include the mental processes underlying product experiences involving sounds and sound-embedded objects. She has been part of several European doctoral research activities (Cognovo.eu, an EU Marie Curie initiative, DocARTES studies in music and arts) and commercial projects (auditory display design for Toyota Motors Europe, European Space Agency). She is an author of 40 peer-reviewed papers (a.o., Acta Psychologica, Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, Sound Effects and International Journal of Design) and in 2014 was a guest editor to the Journal of Sonic Studies. Her recent research focuses on alarm fatigue in medical contexts and auditory/multimodal display design for autonomous vehicles. She is a member of alarm coalition initiated by AAMI in the US and has European collaborations with St. Gallen Geriatric Hospital (CH) and Erasmus Medical Centre (NL) for innovation in alarm management. Özcan is co-chair for the 10th edition of DeSForM/2017, a conference on multisensory design and research.
Gerald C. Cupchik
Department of Psychology, University of Toronto at Scarborough, Scarborough, ON, Canada
Canada
Gerald Cupchik completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Michigan (1967), received his Masters (1970) and PhD (1972) from the University of Wisconsin and did postdoctoral research at the University of Toronto where he has been a professor of psychology since 1974. He was president of the International Association for Empirical Aesthetics (1990-94), APA Division 10 Psychology and the Arts (1996-97), the International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature and Media (1998-2000) and received the Rudolf Arnheim Award in 2010 from the APA. He recently published The aesthetics of emotion: Up the down staircase of the mind-body (Cambridge University Press). His research interests cover design and imagination processes, emotional experience and social communication.
Hendrik N. J. Schifferstein
Department of Industrial Design, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
Netherlands
Rick (H.N.J.) Schifferstein is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering of Delft University of Technology. His topics of interest include (multi)sensory perception, food design and experience-driven innovation. He has contributed to more than 60 papers in international scientific journals, including Acta Psychologica, Food Quality and Preference, Chemical Senses, Materials & Design and International Journal of Design. He is principal editor of the International Journal of Food Design and co-editor of the books Food, People and Society (2001), Product Experience (2008), From Floating Wheelchairs to Mobile Car Parks (2011) and Advanced Design Methods for Successful Innovation (2013). With his company Studio ZIN, he facilitates workshops that stimulate the innovative and creative powers of people and organizations.