Frontiers of Sound in Design. A Guide for the Development of Product Identity Through Sounds

This book is a guide to the development and design of the right sound to enhance a product’s identity, its use, its affordance and its acceptance by consumers. It will be of interest to designers, researchers, R&D departments, marketing experts and industries involved in the exploration of the new frontiers now offered by the project of sound. We are all plugged into an intangible world of sounds; however, what is often ignored is that only an infinitesimal part of the sounds to which we are exposed has been wittingly designed. Design methods and design engineering, psychology and cognitive ergonomics, acoustics and psychoacoustics all contribute to the improvement of product sound development, encompassing an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approach. This book is conceived as a “design guide”, providing the reader with an overview of design methods in which sound becomes a new design requirement, investigating the role of sound from the consumer view-point, presenting several tools and practical examples of sensory design tools and projects and, finally, revealing a new tool and method developed expressly in support of the design of product sound.