• DocumentCode
    1949043
  • 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
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    17-19 Nov. 2010
  • Firstpage
    598
  • Lastpage
    600
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • 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
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CAIDCD.2010.5681277
  • Filename
    5681277