Handheld gimbal camera design based on Kansei Engineering and TRIZ

In order to solve the problems of common appearance, lack of personalization, and unclear function description in the design of handheld gimbal cameras, and to help designers optimize their design solutions through users' emotional needs and technological innovations, this study proposes a handheld gimbal camera design method based on Conformal Engineering (KE) and TRIZ theory. Through literature research and a questionnaire survey, we screened 10 pairs of semantic words that match the appearance imagery of handheld sports cameras and designed a questionnaire under the guidance of the semantic difference method to be distributed to young designers and the main user groups of handheld sports cameras. After recovering the questionnaires, through factor analysis, we extracted the core perceptual factors influencing users' preferences. Based on this, the key challenge of the design, i.e., the gap between ideal and reality, was analyzed and summarized. According to the principle of multiple inventions of TRIZ, we solved three pairs of technical contradictions and proposed a modular design and interaction optimization scheme. Finally, a portable handheld gimbal camera prototype for the young group was designed and validated. The approach synthesizes cross-domain methods, considers user emotions and technical feasibility, and provides a new way of thinking for the design of handheld sports cameras.