Long-term relationship
That's precisely what Tim Cooper at Sheffield Hallam University is working to find out.
'You can make products that won't break for years, but that doesn't mean we'll want to keep them for so long. If we want to design things that will really last for a long time, we need to understand exactly why we get fed up of them,' he explains.
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Tim Cooper, social scientist Sheffield Hallam University |
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