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Meaning-making matters in product design: Users' sensory perceptions and experience evaluations of long-acting vaginal gels and intravaginal rings.

TitleMeaning-making matters in product design: Users' sensory perceptions and experience evaluations of long-acting vaginal gels and intravaginal rings.
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2015
AuthorsRosen, Rochelle K., Jacob J. Van Den Berg, Sara E. Vargas, Natali Senocak, Julia G. Shaw, Robert W. Buckheit, Kelley Alison Smith, and Kate Morrow Guthrie
JournalContraception
Date Published2015 Aug 11
ISSN1879-0518
AbstractUsers' sensory perceptions and experiences (USPEs) of intravaginal products can inform acceptability and adherence. Focusing on the meanings women derive from formulation/device characteristics facilitates developers' design iterations toward optimizing user experience. We investigated how users of long acting gels and intravaginal rings (IVRs) impute meaning to characteristics that may affect future product use.
DOI10.1016/j.contraception.2015.08.007
Alternate JournalContraception

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