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In addition to work, study and social pressure, the spread of COVID-19 worldwide has become a new factor leading to anxiety. Therefore, how to relieve people’s increasing anxiety is an important issue. In this research, from the perspective of healing products, we put forward a series of design guides and evaluation criteria for healing products to serve as a reference for designers and psychological counsellors. First, we collected 100 healing products as research samples through market research and professional recommendations and constructed a sample information table. Meanwhile, 20 people with high anxiety were selected as the subjects using the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) questionnaire. Secondly, we required subjects to evaluate 100 samples with vision, hearing, touch, smell, and taste as healing factors and used Fuzzy C-means (FCM) for cluster analysis. Then, after the subjects experienced several representative samples in each category for some time, we used the Evaluation Grid Method (EGM) to obtain a three-layer evaluation chart for healing products, namely upper, middle, and lower. Lastly, after quantitative analysis, the concrete lower layer is used as the design guide, and the relatively abstract middle layer is used as the evaluation criteria. This research could help designers and psychological counsellors develop new healing products and recommend suitable healing products to alleviate better people’s anxiety caused by COVID-19.
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Wu, F., Lin, YC., Lu, P. (2022). Research on the Design and Evaluation of Healing Product Under the Background of COVID-19. In: Bruyns, G., Wei, H. (eds) [ ] With Design: Reinventing Design Modes. IASDR 2021. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4472-7_134
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