A MPCDM-enabled Product Concept Design via User Involvement Approach

Chen, Robert Chien-Chung

doi:10.1177/1063293x10389791

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“…The first one avoids professionals to weave a biased idea and guarantee the pleasantness of the users. Thus, from the understanding of the real users' needs, a product that responds directly to the needs of the market is developed [8,26]. Given the collaboration of professionals from different areas, it results in a transdisciplinary and integrated knowledge to develop the IPDP of Assistive Technology.…”

Section: Integrated Product Development Process and Design For Assistive Technologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Sociotechnical System Analysis for Identification of the Informational Requirements of Prosthetic Device Users for Upper Limb

Moggio

Okumura

Silva

et al. 2020

Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering

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According to the World Health Organization, more than one billion people on the planet have a type of disability. In Brazil, it corresponds to twenty-four per cent of the population, which creates a high level of social impacts, psychological vulnerability and dependence on others. In this context, Assistive Technology, including prosthetic devices, it is a resource that can be used in order to reduce those vulnerability levels. However, the product market of Assistive Technology is still limited, the few available products present high cost – contradicting Brazil’s high poverty levels, and the rates of dissatisfaction and abandonment of those products are quite high since these people have many specificities. Considering these aspects, the Integrated Product Development Process (IPDP) for Assistive Technology arises as a solution to design products that can match the expectations of the users. The main purpose is to present a fraction of the IPDP of a prosthetic device for the upper limb. It is a research of Informational Design which is applied tools of ergonomics and universal design. In the methodology, the social context of people with upper limb disability was investigated applying tools of Macroergonomics, such as Socio-technical System analysis to reach the personal context of users of prosthetic devices. Then, the Likert tool was applied to the collected data. In the results, the user’s specificities were found in order to use them to the product’s requirements, which ones can contribute to the design of the product. It is concluded that the tools of product development, ergonomics, Universal Design and sociotechnical system analysis have applicability in the IPDP since they enable us to study the specificities of users in order to apply them in subsequent phases of IPDP with the approach in Design for Assistive Technology which contribute to product safety and quality.

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Section: Integrated Product Development Process and Design For Assistive Technologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Sociotechnical System Analysis for Identification of the Informational Requirements of Prosthetic Device Users for Upper Limb

Moggio

Okumura

Silva

et al. 2020

Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering

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“…Due to the fact that user involvement in the design process is crucial to elicit users' requirements and cognitive perception toward a new typology of product (Wang and Chen, 2011), a users' test was done in order to observe communication patterns between two people during the interaction. A total of 12 subjects participated in the test: six with engineering backgrounds and six with design backgrounds.…”

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A design practice on communicating emotions through sensory signals

Yavuz

Bordegoni

Carulli

2016

Concurrent Engineering

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Emotional expression is an important human behavior, which enriches communication. Sensory organs play crucial role in emotional perception. Today, communication is mostly done via digital mediators, which dominantly address vision excluding other senses; therefore, communication becomes less affective. Wearable technology provides an intimate and continuous interaction with sensory organs. Hence, this technology can be used in order to make distant communication more affective by enabling multi-sensory interaction. This article presents a user-centered design practice on wearable products that simulate sensorial feedbacks (tactile, visual, and auditory) to express basic emotions. Three prototypes that transmit emotional messages were designed, built, and tested to observe user behavior. This article discusses how user experience obtained through the user test can be taken further to design new communication products, which can find solutions for different user needs.

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