Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Manufacturing Systems – ICMaS

Published by Editura Academiei Române, ISSN 1842-3183

Volume No. 1,  2006

"Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Machine and Manufacturing Systems Department

Bucharest, Romania, 26 – 27 October, 2006

Abstract: The author of the present paper introduced in a previous paper the concept of technological ritual. The technological ritual is the methodology of using a product besides its basic aim in order to achieve psychological satisfaction at both perceptual and central level. The aim of technological ritual is to satisfy two types of needs: feeling that everything is under man’s control and preservation of connection to childhood. Later, he designed an experiment for testing the validity of this concept. After the analysis of results, it was discovered that products are used in technological rituals. But only the need of playing was clearly validated.  Also, some of the product characteristics required by technological ritual were confirmed.

Ph.D. MSc. Eng., Andrei DUMITRESCU, Associate Professor,

"Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Production Engineering

Department, E-mail: dumitrescu.andrei@yahoo.co.uk