REVISTA DYNA MANAGEMENT

Key words:

diseño de producto, diseño de sonido, percepción acústica, procesos de cognición, diseño de alarma, comunicación, sistemas de información, product design, sound design, acoustic perception, cognitive processes, alarm design, communication, information systems

Article type:

COLABORACION/COLLABORATION DAMR

Section:

COLLABORATIONS

ABSTRACT:
The current socio-technological context encourages the increase of products with increasingly complex and advanced interfaces. Sound is a valuable resource capable of facilitating interaction between product and user, and conveying information about events of different nature and criticality.However, design engineering lacks unified knowledge and a consensus methodology that facilitates the characterization of sound during product development processes. This article presents a retrospective, critical and systematic review of the most relevant theoretical and practical contributions applied in design engineering, from different scientific perspectives. The result is a map of publications classified in 6 large blocks, ranging from initial psychoacoustic studies, through observations on sound semantics, to the most up-to-date approaches supported by communication theories. In this way, researchers and developers in design engineering are provided with a guide and introduction to the main key aspects of sound study and in its application to product design domain. The article collects the main bibliographical references indicating whether they are theoretical or experimental studies, the scientific field with which they relate, their chronological location, and highlighting their main contributions.