This paper aims to systematically understand the overall characteristics of emotional design research on a global scale, grasp the current research hotspots and knowledge evolution process of emotional design, and explore new future development trends based on current research hotspots. Take the emotional design related literature included in Web of Science as the data source, and apply the scientific bibliometric method to produce the distribution from the year of the literature, the country, the research institution, the author, the co-citation status, and