TY - BOOK AU - Hwang,Seong Min ED - Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication TI - Emotion factors are now the key to portable music player's success PY - 2007/// CY - Chislehurst PB - Ravensbourne College KW - Consumer electronics KW - Product design KW - MP3 players KW - Consumer behaviour KW - Dissertation N1 - Advanced technology and the ever-increasing consumer expectations have brought the competition among digital products to the next level. Over the last decade this focus on product design has shifted from function-driven to user-centered. This dissertation explores why emotion factors have been the key emphasis in the product design area nowadays and how these factors have influenced the portable music player market. It intends to use the portable music player as a reference model to provide a better understanding of how the importance of emotion factors affected other portable digital devices of today; MA dissertation: Interactive Digital Media ER -