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

摘要

ObjectiveUsers’ 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.