ABSTRACT
According to the call for papers of the Third International Conference on Design and Emotion, “it is no longer sufficient to design good products or services; we all want to design experiences and generate pleasurable or exciting sensations”. The call for papers also refers to emotion and experience as the “buzzwords of current design practice, research, and education”, as well as to “this new design paradigm”. However, recent research indicates that emotion and experience have already played a crucial role in design during the twentieth century in many product categories, but haven’t received much attention from design historians and researchers. The radio set constitutes one of these product categories, where emotion can be identified as a crucial design factor.
