Designing affective chef’s knives

• Main Authors: Seva, Rosemary, Liu, Ronald, Tan, Charles Jason, Lee, Timothy John
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2018
• Subjects: Knives > Design; Cutlery > Design; Industrial Engineering
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/1465; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/faculty_research/article/2464/type/native/viewcontent
• Institution: De La Salle University

In this study, functional and aesthetic attributes of a chef’s knife were manipulated when designing prototype knives such as the form of the handle, the colour of the handle, and the material and thickness of the handle to determine how they influence apparent usability and functional quality. Thes...