Concept design for quality in virtual environment

Gironimo, Giuseppe Di; Lanzotti, Antonio; Vanacore, Amalia

doi:10.1016/j.cag.2006.08.002

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“…Starting from [8], the proposed strategy, called ViCE, customized for systems subject to strong constraints, like train interiors, consists of six phases ( In the Definition of Style phase, the designer plays a pivot role in order to research shapes and colours that can be pleasant for users. The designer chooses some key-words that give an idea of the product architecture.…”

Section: Virtual Concepts and Experiments Strategymentioning

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“…After the generation of concepts, it is possible to involve again expert users to evaluate the concepts through virtual interactive experiments and to choose the optimal one. These users can cooperate with designers to verify the esthetical, ergonomic and usable properties of concepts, thanks to the interaction with virtual prototypes in an immersive environment [6][7][8].…”

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“…Further, if the design team chooses to work with participatory design strategies and/or with methods for eliciting customer's needs [5], then the users can only interact with sketches or 3D CAD models. For this reason, some strategies to evaluate product features in Virtual Reality environments are recently proposed [6][7][8]. The design team can plan virtual experiments adopting design of experiments (DOE) techniques in order to systematically generate concepts [9,10] and to analyze the influence of different factors (QEs) on product appearance and usability performances.…”

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Virtual concepts and experiments to improve quality of train interiors

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Matrone

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The paper aims at providing a methodological contribution to the concept design of train interior in order to improve the quality perceived by users in compliance with railway standards. Indeed, the combined use of advanced CAD tools, experimental statistical methods and Virtual Reality tools allows developing, selecting and experimentally evaluating new concepts. The design cycle starts both from designers’ proposal and the identification of user’s needs; then, it makes use of datum-based CAD models in order to generate virtual concepts that satisfy railway standards; the cycle proceeds with the immersive evaluation of virtual prototypes, performed by potential and expert users in Virtual Reality. The identification of the optimal concept closes the design process. This procedure can be iterated in order to improve the quality of train interiors, evaluated thanks to the user’s involvement in the design cycle. In this work a case study on seat design of a regional train is presented, developed at the Virtual Reality laboratory, named VRTest, of the Regional Centre for the qualification of transportation systems set up by Campania Regional Authority

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“…In many cases the efforts are focused on new designing solutions to get the best fitting with customer requirements [1][2][3]. Also several tools implemented in current software for the integrated design are dedicated to assure designerć6s creativity.…”

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Re-design of a railway locomotive in virtual environment for ergonomic requirements

Gironimo

Patalano

2007

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The present work deals with the re-designing of a locomotive, according to in force European standards, in the field of active and passive safety. The paper illustrates the use and the management of heterogeneous product information (2D drawings, technical documentation, photos),Virtual Reality tools and digital human models, for the re-designing of a locomotive, using a collaborative approach with a total absence of the reference digital models. The project development has been organised using a top–down approach in a collaborative environment. Finally, by means of the digital prototype of locomotive, a series of aesthetic, functional and ergonomic analyses, in virtual environment, has been performed

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“…With the help of virtual reality, it is possible to perform an interaction with the product and a have a live experience of product use (Di Gironimo et al, 2009a;Di Gironimo et al, 2009b). The entire methodology is aimed at producing an optimal concept that satisfies customer requirements and adopts innovative solutions (Di Gironimo et al, 2006). The identification of the optimal concept ends the concept design process.…”

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confidence: 99%