Dynamic Products Shaping Information to Engage and Persuade

This book explores how dynamic changes in products' sensory features can be used to convey information to the user in an effective and engaging way. The aim is to supply the reader with a clear understanding of an important emerging ar

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Sara Colombo

Dynamic Products Shaping Information to Engage and Persuade 123

SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology PoliMI SpringerBriefs

Editorial Board Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy Stefano Della Torre, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy Bianca M. Colosimo, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy Tiziano Faravelli, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy Roberto Paolucci, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy Silvia Piardi, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

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Sara Colombo

Dynamic Products Shaping Information to Engage and Persuade

123

Sara Colombo Department of Design Politecnico di Milano Milan Italy

ISSN 2191-530X SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences ISSN 2282-2577 PoliMI SpringerBriefs ISBN 978-3-319-33116-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-33117-1

ISSN 2191-5318 and Technology ISSN 2282-2585

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ISBN 978-3-319-33117-1

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Preface

This book explores new languages for the communication of digital information from products to users. It identifies and analyses a new area of Product Design research and practice, that of dynamic products, which straddles the virtual and the tangible worlds. The need of conveying information to users is always more compelling in our society, as ICT, sensors and electronics generate a huge amount of data of any sort (from the temperature of a room, to user-generated contents), which have to be communicated to final users. Products often are intermediates between the immaterial data generated by smart systems and the information displayed to users; in most cases, they rely on screens and displays and adopt the v