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Conference Topics

Design & Emotion is the overarching theme of the conference.

This year, the conference adds a particular focus on Design & Emotion in emerging societal issues of our lives and living environments. Another focus is on strategic roles of Design & Emotion in business. The areas of these foci include fundamental research into Design & Emotion that further enhances our intellectual foundation as well as the emotional aspects of the following topic areas:

Design for Wellbeing
Healthcare
Elderly Living
Food, Health and Culture
Universal/ Inclusive Design

Design for Environments
Sustainable Lifestyle
Product and System Life Cycle

Interaction and Context-sensitivity
Human-Robot Interaction
Product Adaptation
User Learning

Service Design
Modeling Experiences
Retail Design

Strategic Design and Business
Decision-Making
Business Models
Branding

Foundation for Design and Emotion
Temporality, Uncertainty and Polarity of Emotion
Affordance, Semiotics, Value and Emotion
Research Methodologies
Design Methodologies
Theoretical Foundations
Philosophical Foundations and Implications to Design