Designing Ubiquitous Content for Daily Lifestyle

Inakage, Masa; Ueki, Atsuro; Tokuhisa, Satoru; Katsumoto, Yuichiro

doi:10.4018/jthi.2009010103

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“…The progress of technology has made nursing beds more and more automated and intelligent (Yuan et al, 2023), and the improvement of living standards has gradually brought this product into the homes of the general public, whose design is related to the quality of life and experience of patients during rehabilitation and convalescence. Compared with the basic functions and quality of products, users become more and more concerned about the safety (Zhu et al, 2016), aesthetics (Yang, Liu and Ye, 2023), pleasure (Kang, 2012), experience (Inakage et al, 2009), ease of use (Man, Wei and Chih-Chieh, 2013), efficiency (Gilal, Zhang and Gilal, 2018) and other emotional requirements of products. This means that nursing bed design should be based on user requirements for traditional functional development, but also need to consider the emotional preferences of users such as aesthetics and experience (Ki, 2014).…”

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A user-centered development model for innovation design in automated nursing beds

YANG,

YUAN,

2023

JAMDSM

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With the improvement of technology and living standard, nursing beds have become more automatic and intelligent, while gradually moving from the ward into the home. In addition to functional technology, the emotional experience has become the dominant factor influencing user purchases. Therefore, it is particularly important to consider user emotional requirements and performance metrics such as usability, ease of use in a coordinated way while maintaining high design efficiency. This paper presents a user-centered development model (UCDM) for products that covers the entire design process. The UCDM successfully complements the generic user-centered design (UCD) approach to effectively and efficiently complete product design. It is validated with the example of an automated nursing bed, which ensures the company's profitability while satisfying users' emotional requirements. Firstly, the Kano model is integrated with Quality of Functional Deployment (QFD) to help designers better understand user needs and locate key design areas and key technical issues for new product innovation. Then, Theory of Creative Problem Solving (TRIZ) is applied to efficiently propose available alternatives to technical issues. And later with the help of Kansei evaluation (KE) methods, the alternatives are scientifically evaluated and decided while providing a reference basis for subsequent optimization. Finally, all the new nursing bed alternatives designed according to the proposed method have been highly evaluated and satisfied by users. The results demonstrate that the proposed design method can help designers to accurately complete user-centered product innovation, scientifically guide the whole design process, and verify the scientific and effective performance of the UCDM.

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A user-centered development model for innovation design in automated nursing beds

YANG,

YUAN,

2023

JAMDSM

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Applying Latent Dirichlet Allocation and Support Vector Regression to the Aesthetic Design of Medical Nursing Beds

Yuan

et al. 2023

Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering

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With the development of social productivity and the improvement in material living standards, emotional value has become the core driver of the enhancement of product market competitiveness. A medical nursing bed, one of the most typical types of medical devices, is designed with little attention to the emotional experience of the users. Therefore, this paper proposes an innovative perceptual design approach under the Kansei engineering (KE) framework for resource-limited and information-poor companies. It guides the aesthetic design of medical nursing beds by constructing a mapping relationship between users' perceptual needs and the design characteristics of medical nursing beds to maximize users' emotions. First, latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) is used to extract usable Kansei semantics from big data, compensating for the subjectivity of traditional KE data input. Then, the design characteristics obtained after deconstructing a medical nursing bed are simplified with rough set theory (RST). Finally, a mapping model between users' perceptual needs and the core design characteristics of nursing beds is established through support vector regression (SVR), and the optimal design solution is obtained by weighting calculation. The optimal combination of design characteristics for medical nursing beds is finally obtained. The results suggest that the design method proposed in this paper can help designers accurately grasp users' emotional perceptions in terms of aesthetic design and scientifically guide and complete the design of new medical nursing beds, verifying the feasibility and scientificity of the proposed method in terms of aesthetic design.

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Design Methodology for Ubiquitous Content: AMAGATANA as a Case Study

Katsumoto¹,

Uriu²,

Tokuhisa³

et al. 2010

The Journal of the Society for Art and Science

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This paper presents "Design Methodology for Ubiquitous Content" as a methodology for creating various interactive contents especially in an ubiquitous computing environment. This methodology encourages a designer's creation through the design-thinking-based ideation and prototyping with xtel(ubiquitous content platform). In this paper, AMAGATANA is described as a case study of this methodology. AMA-GATANA is a playable umbrella which makes a sound of the sword by swinging.

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Designing Ubiquitous Content for Daily Lifestyle

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A user-centered development model for innovation design in automated nursing beds

A user-centered development model for innovation design in automated nursing beds

Applying Latent Dirichlet Allocation and Support Vector Regression to the Aesthetic Design of Medical Nursing Beds

Design Methodology for Ubiquitous Content: AMAGATANA as a Case Study

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