Design, Emotion & VIrtual Réality

L’objectif à travers cet article est d’explorer la phase amont de conception sous l’environnement virtuel. L’utilisation d’un environnement de développement des produits innovants en intégrants les utilisateurs est l’objectif des entreprises. Cette intégration est basée sur la récolte d’un maximum d’information sur le produit afin d’éviter les échecs et les cycles longs de la conception. Le développement des outils et les pratiques liées aux environnements virtuels donnent aux concepteurs un intervalle de manœuvre pour la réalisation des concepts innovants.

La notion d'utilisabilité est peu à peu devenue une référence incontournable pour la conception et l'évaluation des interactions homme-machine. Cette approche a effectivement contribué à une amélioration de la facilité d'utilisation des interfaces. Pour les équipes de conception souhaitant se différencier par la qualité d'utilisation, de nouveaux domaines de recherche sont à explorer, et la question du ressenti émotionnel des utilisateurs est devenue peu à peu prépondérante. La recherche présentée dans cet article se situe dans ce cadre. Notre hypothèse générale est que certaines stratégies de design peuvent susciter un ressenti positif de l'utilisateur et améliorer ainsi l'attractivité de l'interface. Notre travail vise à contribuer aux « bonnes pratiques » de design d'interfaces sur la base de mesures de l'impact émotionnel de certaines stratégies de design. Dans ce but, nous considérons tout d'abord les méthodes de mesure de l'émotion p...

In between industrial design, virtual reality and experience psychology we aim to offer engaging and efficient immersive tools to augment the design workflow. To evaluate the efficiency of our innovative design tools and their impact on the traditional industrial design process, we use experimental protocols inspired from design science, user experience evaluation and psycho-physiology. This research framework gives access to complex micro processes appearing between the designer and his tools, regarding the emotional engagement of a designer in his activity. The goal of this paper is to present how specific early design needs can be fulfilled by immersive technologies. The presented findings show the level to which an immersive experience is valid for early design tasks.

Immersive moodboards, a comparative study of industrial design inspiration material A recent trend in our industrial culture has been the gradual emergence of digital tools in various fields of human activity. They aim to reduce development time, cost, or to insure a low error, high quality process. Many fields have been improved thanks to this new computerized approach. This paper is centered on how industrial design could be assisted by virtual reality tools. More specifically it presents a new vision of early design methodologies through immersive technologies. It also presents the results of an experimentation aiming to compare traditional moodboards with a newly developed immersive moodboard. When analyzing and comparing the relationship of the industrial designer to a traditional and an immersive moodboard, our result highlights the fact that immerging the industrial designer in an immersive moodboard induces a high emotional activity without radically modifying the meaning of the represented trend. The moodboard data spatialization stimulates and engages the designer into interacting with the immersive moodboard. The virtual reality system provides the illusion of a potential reality, which can be used by the designer as a reflection basis for his work. We believe that delivering this immersive experience during the early design process will help the industrial designer make style related decisions.

The aim of our work is to develop an approach based on exploiting sketches in the early design phase to create an innovative product. to provide assista nce to developers of orthopedic products (knee prostheses, hip, records, ...). This approach is ba ed on the concept of cooperation between engineers and orthopedic surgeons. The development of a biome chanical product is designed around the actual 03D models from reverse engineering techniques. Con cretely this tool should provide assistance for those involved in the design to innovate better by creating sketches in the early design phase by surgeons. For that our approach provides the basic elements a designer to build the product. The results give a new vision for the development of or thopedic products around the concept "tailored for each patient." Mots clefs : Esquisse, prothèses, processus de conc eption, images DICOM. 22 Congrès Français de Mécanique Lyon, 24 au 28 Août 2015

The Orbital Views program brings virtual reality in true weightless and partial weight environments, in preparation for real space missions in orbit and on the surface of other planets. It opens opportunities for the training of astronauts on critical tasks that can only be trained in reduced-weight environments such as parabolic flights. With appropriate installations, Orbital Views also allows modern space tourists to experience the sights, sounds, and proprioceptive feelings of space without actually going there.

The Orbital Views program brings virtual reality in true weightless and partial weight environments, in preparation for real space missions in orbit and on the surface of other planets. It opens opportunities for the training of astronauts on critical tasks that can only be trained in reduced-weight environments such as parabolic flights. With appropriate installations, Orbital Views also allows modern space tourists to experience the sights, sounds, and proprioceptive feelings of space without actually going there.