Visual attributes of products as the factors influencing Users' emotional reactions: a study on dental instruments

Download

index.pdf

Date

2014

Author

Çınar Okuşluğ, Kıvılcım

Metadata

Show full item record

Item Usage Stats

261
views

436
downloads

Despite the technological advances in the field of dentistry, it is asserted that the instruments that are used in treatments may be one of the reasons of negative emotions that are still effective on dental patients. However, studies that investigate how dental instruments trigger emotions of patients are so scarce. In this study that aims to overcome this deficiency, it is tried to show relationship between product appearance and individual’s emotional response on dental instruments. This thesis dwells on patients’ emotions towards appearance of dental instruments and which product visual attributes trigger these emotions. As the relationship between individual’s emotional responses and product appearance is defined for different product categories with various studies, in this study, similar relationships are investigated by conducting questionnaires and interviews. According to the results of the data analysis, the appearance of dental instruments create negative emotions such as fear, worry and anxiety, and these negative emotions can be decreased with certain changes on the design of dental instruments.

Subject Keywords

Dental technology., Dental materials., Dentistry, Industrial design., Product design.

URI

http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12617010/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/23382

Collections

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

Suggestions

OpenMETU
Core

Analysis of Confidence Levels and Application Success Rates in Simulator-Based Dental Anesthesia Education Among Undergraduate Dental Students Vural, Çağıl; Bozkurt, Poyzan; Vardar Acar, Ceren; Üçok, Cahit (2021-06-01) Purpose: We investigated the confidence levels of undergraduate dental students who used dental anesthesia simulators and patient reports of undergraduate dental students' confidence levels in delivering anesthesia injections, in comparison with undergraduate dental students who did not use dental anesthesia simulators. We also investigated application success rates. Materials and Methods: The study was carried out in the dental anesthesia simulator laboratory and in the faculty clinics of the Faculty of De...
Design and mechanical analysis of a new dental implant that would mimic natural tooth with a periodontal ligament Pektaş, Ömer; Tönük, Ergin; Department of Mechanical Engineering (2012) Dental implant is an artificial dental root that is used to construct dental restorations, similar to the original teeth, in order to regain the function of missing teeth of patients experiencing tooth loss. At the interface between the jawbone and the roots of natural teeth, a thin, elastic, shock absorbing tissue, called the periodontal ligament (PDL), forms a cushion which provides certain mobility to the natural teeth. The restorations supported by dental implants, however, involve completely rigid stru...
Borate modified bioglass containing scaffolds for dental tissue engineering applications Moonesi Rad, Reza; Tezcaner, Ayşen; Evis, Zafer; Department of Biotechnology (2018) Dental tissue engineering has gained increasing attention in recent years. Dentures or implants are used as replacements of the lost teeth. High cost of these restorations and rejection possibility of the implants are their main drawbacks. For this reason, a regenerative approach for repairing of the damaged dentin-pulp complex or generating a new tissue is needed. The properties associated with bioglass like biocompatibility and bioactivity are very attractive for dental applications. In this thesis, bioac...
Bioactive agent loaded hydrogel systems for dental tissue engineering applications Atila, Deniz Hazal; Tezcaner, Ayşen; HASIRCI, VASIF; Department of Engineering Sciences (2021-9-07) Use of tissue engineered oral restoration products is currently a popular approach for treating dental defects that adversely affect oral health in ageing populations. Among scaffolds composed of long-lasting porous ceramics and biodegradable natural or synthetic polymers with varying service lives, injectable hydrogels attract attention to regenerate dental pulp due to the capability of filling non-uniform voids such as pulp cavity. In this study, two types of injectable hydrogels were formulized by design...
Structural and biological assessment of boron doped bioactive glass nanoparticles for dental tissue applications Rad, Rezai Moonesi; Alshemary, Ammar Zeıdan Ghaılan; Evis, Zafer; Keskin, Dilek; Altunbas, Korhan; Tezcaner, Ayşen (2018-06-01) In this article, bioactive glass nanoparticles (BG-NPs) doped with boron were synthesized and characterized to evaluate their effects on human dental pulp stem cells (hDPSCs). All synthesized BGs were nano-sized and amorphous in nature. They showed the expected characteristic functional groups and composition close to the designed ones by microstructural characterizations. Porositimetry analysis revealed that increase of boron in the BG composition caused a decrease in the specific surface area, average por...

Citation Formats

K. Çınar Okuşluğ, “Visual attributes of products as the factors influencing Users’ emotional reactions: a study on dental instruments,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2014.