Title :
Humanistic care in design of products for women
Author :
Shi, Yuanwu ; Wen, Qianqian
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Art & Design, Hubei Univ. of Technol., Wuhan, China
Abstract :
As economy develops, the role of women in modern society sees tremendous changes and women is becoming an essential market participant. With respect to such new changes, physiological and psychological difference between the sexes, as well as consumption psychology of various types of women, is analyzed in this paper. It states that the basic view, i.e., product designers should implement humanistic care for women from various aspects. In design of products, certain guidance by means of design psychology is to be provided for women so that women users can not only feel such humanistic care, but also get certain hint thus to promote self-actualization.
Keywords :
consumer behaviour; gender issues; product design; psychology; consumption psychology; design psychology; humanistic care; physiological difference; product design; psychological difference; self-actualization; Psychology; design psychology; modern women; products for women;
Conference_Titel :
Computer-Aided Industrial Design & Conceptual Design (CAIDCD), 2010 IEEE 11th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Yiwu
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7973-3
DOI :
10.1109/CAIDCD.2010.5681277