Modern consumers prefer to choose the product of expressing their emotional
orientation rather than to consider the price and functions of products. Businesses
make every efforts to satisfy the peculiar demands of each consumer with a
variety of tastes in an unlimited competitive environment. So in the digital era,
product designers are studying and developing not only in aspect of functional
components but also in aspect of emotional design to understand customers' needs
being diversifying from interactive communication. With these efforts, the field of
emotional design has been studied to reflect user's emotional needs on design of
products by focusing a user's psychology and emotional codes. This study examines
the scope of research on the emotional design focusing on the view communication.
For this purpose, we studied about the background and meaning of emotional
design research. Specially, it is proposed the model of emotional design's research
area in this study. The research model is divided into three scopes. The first area
is to understand audience of digital media. The second area is to understand a
special things of networked space. The third is to understand characters of
human's emotional dimension. In the future, the design strategy should be pursued
in accordance with a variety of consumer's tastes with aesthetics and emotional
communication.