Conveying emotions through physical objects
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School of Arts, Design and Architecture |
Bachelor's thesis
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2019
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Muotoilu
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en
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61
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Nightingale Health is a Finnish biotech company, focusing to find solutions for the world’s most notorious health issues - chronic diseases, with its pioneering blood analysis technology. The technology can provide vast amounts of detailed molecular data from just a single blood sample. This process is why the data can be provided to the customer with relatively low running costs when compared to traditional blood analysis technologies. Nightingale health enables critical researchers and healthcare providers to utilize the latest knowledge while fighting the rapidly growing problem of chronic diseases. Provided metabolic data can offer countless possibilities in the battle against these rapidly growing worldwide health problems. Such as predicting the risk of developing a disease in the future, or to help improve one’s overall health status. I have been working for this company as an industrial designer during the thesis process. This experience has enabled me to gain insight into the industry, and understand the need for this research. Nightingale Health aims to develop products that will have an actual impact on the current health status of people worldwide. The need for these kinds of products is unquestionable. The severity and of these health issues is illustrated more thoroughly later. Designing and developing products to tackle lifestyle-related health issues might be quite challenging. The main problem can be found straight from the word lifestyle. Solutions usually include significant changes in individuals way of life. This improvement might consist of such matters as diet, exercise, and stress to name a few. To make these changes possible, individuals need to have access to health information, to point out the problem. In addition to that, people need some tangible solutions and guidelines to follow and make a permanent lifestyle change. To make this whole process happen, individuals need to have the will to use products and services providing the possibility for a change. The users will buy and use a product is one of the products critical elements I could influence a designer. In this case, the need for individuals to use Nightingale’s products is undebatable, since the company could offer solutions to solve severe worldwide health issues. This research is one approach to examine how to enhance the positive impact on product experience.Description
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Puintila, SimoThesis advisor
Puintila, SimoKeywords
emotions, psychology, product design, design research, industrial design, material research, form research