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Figure 2 The result of affective design of a gas fire on the balance between energy consumption
and user benefit
The top of the scale represents energy consumption exceeding the benefit of the
device to the user, and this scenario is presented in Figure 2, using the example of
the gas fire from the participant observation study. In this example, the pleasure
experienced ...