From Sustainable Materials to User-Centered Sustainability: Material Experience in Art Healing

TL;DR

This paper explores how sustainable hydrogel materials can be designed to enhance art healing by focusing on aesthetic and intrinsic properties that influence user psychological and emotional experiences.

Contribution

It introduces a material experience framework that helps designers systematically incorporate user perceptions and emotional needs into sustainable material design for art healing.

Findings

Aesthetic properties significantly influence art healing.

Intrinsic properties also impact user experience.

Physical properties have limited effect on healing outcomes.

Abstract

This study develops sustainable materials using hydrogel as the matrix and explores the transition from sustainable materials to user-centered sustainability, with a particular focus on achieving art healing through material experience. The findings reveal that "Aesthetic" property exert the greatest influence on art healing in the context of multimodal material experiences involving visual, tactile, and smell, followed by "Intrinsic" property, whereas "Physical" property have a comparatively limited effect. Furthermore, the study proposes a material experience framework that enables designers to systematically and holistically understanding material characteristics. It highlights the importance of considering users' psychological perceptions and emotional needs in the material design process.