In the past decades, humanity is facing the consequences of the irresponsible production of plastics and the expansion of industries such as industrial agriculture, Therefore, the development of new sustainable alternative materials has become increasingly popular as a science field. That is the case of mycelium composites, a biodegradable material made out of agricultural and the thread-like roots of mushrooms called mycelium. The mycelium, when growing, binds all the particles of organic matter together, creating a stiff material that takes the shape of the mold where it was cultivated. The material is lightweight, fire resistant, provides acoustic and thermal insulation and has good behavior under compression efforts. So far, research has been conducted on testing the properties of the material, but there is a lack of knowledge on how to address this material from a design perspective. How to design with it, how to make it appealing to the users or how to value its intrinsic characteristics. For that, the design thinking methodology "Design thinking bootleg" was followed and theory and methods under the perspective of "Design for emotion" and the approach of "Material driven design" that facilitates design processes where the material is the main driver. An acoustic insulation solution was developed as a result, since it was concluded to be the most competitive application among the different possibilities of mycelium composites. The product aims for a certain emotional response in the users, seeking the development of an emotional connection and creating awareness about the role mushrooms play in nature and the use of sustainable materials. Eventually, the product succeeded in transmitting more than mere curiosity, especially after explaining the story behind it. Overall, the product is still far from competing against plastics in terms of scalability and speed of production. However, research on this topic is increasing exponentially and the material proves to have a lot of potential, so it is expected to be improved in the next few years.

Submitted by JOSIANE SANTOS DE OLIVEIRA (josianeso) on 2018-04-19T16:22:55Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Rodrigo dos Santos_.pdf: 2477221 bytes, checksum: 00ecef06380f0ef6f0e3432985bc99ab (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-04-19T16:22:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rodrigo dos Santos_.pdf: 2477221 bytes, checksum: 00ecef06380f0ef6f0e3432985bc99ab (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-02-28 / Nenhuma / Em razão das novas tecnologias desenvolvidas nos últimos anos, têm ocorrido mudanças no comportamento e na experiência de relacionamento de usuários com as instituições financeiras. Tecnologias recentes como aplicativos de smartphones, os quais oferecem os mesmos serviços disponíveis em uma agência física de bancos, poderão eliminar o relacionamento bancário pessoal nos próximos anos. Com isso, existe a possibilidade de o comportamento dos usuários frente a esses novos serviços do chamado “banco digital” despertar experiências que poderão influenciar na construção da confiança no relacionamento bancário. Dessa forma, considerando o design para a emoção uma área que estuda a projetação com o objetivo de provocar ou evitar determinadas emoções, foi realizada uma pesquisa para avaliar e compreender a construção da emoção confiança dos usuários no uso de canais digitais para relacionamento com as instituições financeiras. Para tanto, esse trabalho contextualizou o mercado bancário atual e a projeção de futuro, realizando o aprofundamento dos temas relacionados a emoções, design para emoções e uma teoria cognitiva utilizada pela área do design, a Teoria dos Appraisals, com o objetivo de entender como, a partir das avaliações de eventos e situações (appraisals), resulta na emoção confiança, a qual interfere no relacionamento dos consumidores com o banco digital a partir dos concerns (atitudes, crenças e padrões aprendidos) das pessoas. A pesquisa foi realizada a partir de um estudo qualitativo e exploratório, com a realização de entrevistas com 24 usuários de serviços financeiros bancários para identificação dos seus appraisals e concerns em relação à utilização dos bancos digitais, sendo os depoimentos analisados através da técnica de Análise de Conteúdo. O estudo possibilitou entender os gatilhos relacionados às emoções, que levam à formação da confiança para utilização dos canais digitais das instituições financeiras e, a partir deles, estabelecer diretrizes projetuais para atuação do designer. / Due to the new technologies developed in recent years, there have been changes in the behavior and experience of user relationships with financial institutions. Breakthrough technologies such as smartphone applications, which offer the same services available in a bank branches, could eliminate personal banking relationships in the coming years. With this, there is the possibility of the users' behavior with these new services of the so-called "digital bank", awaking experiences that may influence the construction of trust in the banking relationship. Thus, considering the design for emotion an area that studies projects with the purpose of provoking or avoiding certain emotions, a research was carried out to evaluate and understand the construction of users' trust in the use of digital channels for relationship with financial institutions. In order to do so, this work contextualized the current banking market and the future projection, realizing the deepening of themes related to emotions, design for emotions and a cognitive theory used by the area of design, Appraisals Theory, with the objective of understanding how, from appraisals of events and situations, results in the emotion of trust, which interferes in the relationship of consumers with the digital bank based on the concerns (attitudes, beliefs and learned patterns) of the people. The research was carried out based on a qualitative and exploratory study. Twenty-four interviews were carried out with users of banking financial services to identify their appraisals and concerns regarding the use of digital banks, and the comments was analyzed through the Content Analysis technique. The study turned possible to understand the triggers related to emotions, which lead to the formation of confidence to use the digital channels of financial institutions and, from them, to establish design guidelines for the designer's work.

Submitted by Silvana Teresinha Dornelles Studzinski (sstudzinski) on 2016-10-11T13:37:11Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Rafael de Mello Tucci_.pdf: 7436260 bytes, checksum: 3a374bbf7e9ae66cf9dabb93d435d7eb (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-10-11T13:37:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rafael de Mello Tucci_.pdf: 7436260 bytes, checksum: 3a374bbf7e9ae66cf9dabb93d435d7eb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-03-25 / Nenhuma / O design para emoção, área que une os conhecimentos de design e psicologia cognitiva, cresceu em relevância a partir do final dos anos 90. Nela, o intuito dos projetos reside em desenvolver soluções que estimulem ou evitem determinadas emoções. Nesse contexto, Desmet (2007) trouxe da psicologia cognitiva a Teoria dos Appraisals que estabelece a visão de uma relação causal entre estímulos projetáveis pelo design e reações emocionais. O presente estudo procura entender como a Teoria dos Appraisals pode contribuir para projetos em design de serviços. O tema tem a sua aplicação em um contexto de urgências hospitalares privadas na Grande Porto Alegre. Para responder a essas perguntas foi desenvolvida uma survey on line com indivíduos que utilizaram alguma urgência hospitalar privada nos últimos seis meses na Grande Porto Alegre. Após o tratamento dos resultados dessa primeira etapa, os insumos foram utilizados como parte da observação participante de um exercício projetual com designers, arquitetos especializados no setor da saúde hospitalar e um profissional da saúde com experiência em urgências hospitalares privadas. Em seguida foram realizadas entrevistas em profundidade com os mesmos participantes. Os resultados observados sugerem que a teoria dos Appraisals contribui em projetos de design de serviços ao trazer uma forma diferente de incluir o usuário, facilitar a confirmação a resposta do briefing de projeto, diretrizes de projeto, elementos e dados consistentes para o processo de projeto. / The design for emotion, an area that unites the design expertise and cognitive psychology, grew in importance since the late 90s. The purpose of the projects in this area lies in developing solutions that encourage or prevent certain emotions. In this context, Desmet (2007) brought from the cognitive psychology the Appraisal theory, which establishes the vision of a causal relationship between projectable stimuli for design and emotional reactions. This study seeks to understand how the Appraisal theory can contribute to projects in service design. The topic has its application in the context of private hospital emergency rooms in the Great Area of Porto Alegre. To answer to these questions, a survey online was developed with individuals who used any private hospital emergency in the last six months in the Great Area of Porto Alegre. With the results of this first stage, the inputs were used as part of participant observation of a projetual exercise with designers, architects specializing in the health sector hospital and a health professional with experience in private hospital emergency room. After, in-depth interviews were conducted with the same participants. The results suggest that the Appraisals theory contributes in service design projects bringing a different way to include the user, facilitate confirmation of the project briefing response, design guidelines, consistent elements and data to the design process.