PrEmo: a tool to measure emotional responses

PrEmo is a tool to measure emotional responses towards products, originally developed by Pieter Desmet at the faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at the TU Delft. It uses animated characters to portray a certain number of emotions, which a person can use to describe in a non verbal way the kind of emotions that he feels towards a product.

I had the chance to work in a research project in the past in which I compared this tool to a more semantic tool (the Geneva Emotions Wheel) which gave us some very good insights into how this tool could be enhanced. Together with Pieter Desmet, it was decided that a follow up project was needed in order to make a newer version of the tool with the findings of the first study as a basis.

I you are interested in helping out with this study, please visit www.bluehaired.com/premo and fillin our questionnaire. Here you willbe able to see the evolution of the original tool and give us some feedback about it.

And of course, if you are interested in the results or the study in general, you can always drop me a line and I’ll be happy to give you more information.

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4 responses to “PrEmo: a tool to measure emotional responses”

  1. Kirk Demorest Avatar
    Kirk Demorest

    Hello,

    Can you please tell me who designed your character, the guy who is in a T-shirt and winking at the camera? I would like to contact that designer to see if they can make a character for my company.

    Thanks!

    Kirk
    707-827-3332

  2. David Güiza Caicedo Avatar

    Hi Kirk,
    I don’t remember his name, but it’s a cartoonist based in Amsterdam.
    You can get in contact with Pieter Desmet from the TU Delft (just google his name and you’ll find contact details) and he can tell you for sure who did the character design.

  3. Eliseo Avatar
    Eliseo

    Hi David,

    We are interested in implementing the PrEmo emoticons as feedback in an application we are developing. If we just want to use the animations (we will collect the statistics ourselves), do we still have to pay for the license or can we download them for free?

    Thanks!

  4. David Avatar

    Hi Eliseo,
    If you are interested in using PrEmo, you have to come in contact with SusaGroup (www.susagroup.com), which is the company that commercializes its use. I just collaborated on developing the tool a bit.

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