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CHAPTER 47
Developing New Emotional
Evaluation Methods for
Measuring Users’
Subjective Experiences in
the Virtual Environments
Nermin Elokla, Yasuyuki Hirai
Kyushu University, Japan
nelokla@hotmail.com
ABSTRACT
Nowadays, users’ emotions have been recognized as valuable parameters for
product design development. We all know from our personal experiences that
products can elicit strong emotional responses. These product emotions influence both
the decisions to purchase a product and the pleasure of owing and using it after the
purchase. For designers it is essential to create products that fit the emotions of users,
that is, products ...