In the field of modern design, the most commonly used emotion evoking vocabulary's purpose is to express human emotions and sensibility. In service design, however, the range of vocabulary used exceeds just mere emotion evoking expressions. When we ta...
In the field of modern design, the most commonly used emotion evoking vocabulary's purpose is to express human emotions and sensibility. In service design, however, the range of vocabulary used exceeds just mere emotion evoking expressions. When we take a good look at the process of service design, there are specific standards to recognize; such as a user's actions when using provided services, the time a user spends in order to access services, the interface involved in ergonomics while a user is traveling, the smoothe ness within the system that enables an easy usage, etc. So its more than just sensibility. There needs to be an existing vocabulary that provides for the needs and goals that a user desires. But the most important factor that must be considered is the user's point ofview. A new set of vocabulary must be developed in the service design that is sufficient to depict a process of a user's emotional perspective. If this certain development of words is completed, expressions that were used before -words that connected emotions with color, or images- will be used in more areas than before. Insight and newly developed vocabulary, gained through interviews and surveys toward users, are considered to supply the field with a new direction and solutions. Literature search, electrocorticography, -used for word extraction- and surveys are being used as methods for research. In literature search, researchers carefully point out words that are most frequently and catergorize them. For this process, researches rely on a dictionary called 'Word Bundle I' that was published in Yeonsae University's Dictionary Publishing lab. This dictionary specialized in organizing and catergorizing Korean adjectives. Speaking in terms of service design, researchers used the method of processing to find out the importance of service design through the user's perspective. And through this very process - catorgorizing and organizing vocabulary, electrocorticography, and surveying- developing a model for development is acheived. After this, words that were specifacally extracted are applied, and the analyzing process is finally done.
There was a theory that states that 'if one were to measure and limit the range of vocabulary used before testing, a subject might be limited to thinking only through the right brain.' But by using the multiple intelligences theory, (Howard Gardner) researchers assume that the simultaneous usage of mulitiple intelligences is possible, thus allowing research to proceed without interruption.
Choosing an appropriate target for research has also been a problem to be solved while continuing studies. In order to gain accurate results, researchers had to be sure they were able to divide a subject's thinking stages through electroencephalograms. Subject's in their 20's were considered to have the most active and vivid brain activity, and so they chose young adults for research. The level and range of vocabulary were even more sorted out depending on each subject's personal convictions, periodical perspectives, and cultural back grounds. Researchers predict that if the range of research were to be broadened to subjects of other age groups, results would vary too wildly.
Once again, the purpose of this study is to find and fix a universal criteria that fits the point of view of service design, and then to extract the appropriate vocabulary to serve that purpose. For extraction of words, again they will use brain activity and surveys to determine what new kind of words they will specifically use.