Evaluation of drinking ease relative to the opening diameter and beverage type of aluminum beverage bottles

Chihara, Takanori; Yamazaki, Koetsu; Itoh, Ryoichi; Han, Jing

doi:10.1016/j.jfoodeng.2009.05.006

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“…Gofman et al, 38 Yiangkamolsing et al, 135 de la Fuente et al, 166 and Langley et al 167 The packaging design process should be structured to link between users' requirements and design parameters. Silva et al, 168 Yoxall et al, 169,172 Blakey et al, 170 and Chihara et al 171 Opening difficulties can be addressed either by introducing opening-aiding tools or applying design efforts.…”

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“…135 Within this context, many studies have been conducted to structure the packaging design process with more insights into users' requirements. 38,166,167 Because of the growing complexities and challenges associated with package opening, researchers began to focus on specific types of packages [168][169][170][171] and introduced opening-aiding tools 172,173 to overcome degradation in elderly physical abilities.…”

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State of the art of user packaging interaction (UPI)

Mumani

Stone

2018

Packag Technol Sci

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User packaging interaction (UPI) has evolved in packaging research because of its importance to users, manufacturers, and designers. A great deal of work addressing problems and suggesting potential improvements has been directed toward UPI. However, this work is not easily accessible to researchers as it lacks a cohesive structure. This paper serves as a platform for UPI researchers by presenting previous work UPI in an organized structure based on stages of interaction. Over 100 articles were reviewed to identify the scope of research in this area and then categorized according to stages of interaction. During the review of more articles, these stages of interaction were modified to ensure that they reflected all the reviewed articles. The review process resulted in the enumeration of the following stages: at point of purchase, checking out, handling, opening, and disposal. The related articles in each category are presented and discussed, and potential future work is presented. The articles were further categorized according to the age and gender of users under test, and packaging and product types considered. The review process has revealed different issues in the current research structure of UPI including the comprehensibility of the conducted research and the distribution of the reviewed articles. On the basis of this review, a model is proposed for improving the UPI by quantitatively evaluating the package design and affordances provided at each interaction stage.

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Section: Packaging Designmentioning

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Section: Improving Packaging Accessibilitymentioning

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State of the art of user packaging interaction (UPI)

Mumani

Stone

2018

Packag Technol Sci

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“…We determined a combination of variables, i.e., the bottle opening diameter, volume of 273 remaining beverage, final inclination angle, and time duration, by using an orthogonal array of the DOE. Then, we 274 performed 3D fluid dynamics simulations at sampling points based on the orthogonal array by using the analysis code 275 FIDAP (Fluent Inc.), under the same analysis conditions as those in our previous study (Chihara et al, 2009). 276…”

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Evaluation function of drinking ease from aluminum beverage bottles relative to optimum bottle opening diameter and beverage type

Chihara

Yamazaki

2012

Applied Ergonomics

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14In recent years, aluminum beverage bottles having screw tops with opening diameters of 28 and 38 mm have been 15 launched in the Japanese market in keeping with the modern-day drinking habits of consumers. Although Japanese 16 consumers are familiar with such bottles, a majority of them feel that the 28 mm opening is too small and the 38 mm 17 opening is too large. Therefore, we felt the need to develop a method for evaluating consumer feelings when they drink 18 a beverage directly from the bottle opening. For this purpose, we propose an evaluation function of drinking ease that 19 calculates the optimum opening diameter of the bottle. From results of our previous study, we know that there exists an 20 ideal volume of beverage flowing into the mouth, at which consumers feel most comfortable while drinking directly 21 from bottles. Therefore, we define the evaluation function of drinking ease in terms of the difference between the actual 22 volume of fluid in the mouth and the expected ideal volume. If this difference is small, consumers probably feel 23 comfortable while drinking the beverage. We consider a design variable, i.e., the opening diameter, and two state 24 variables, i.e., the volume of beverage remaining in the bottle and the height of consumers, and construct the response 25 surface of the evaluation function by using radial basis function networks. In addition, for investigating the influence of 26 beverage type on the evaluation function, we select green tea and a carbonated beverage (Coke) as test beverages. 27Results of optimization of the proposed function show that when the opening diameters are 35.4 mm and 34.4 mm in 28 the case of green tea and Coke, respectively, the actual volume of fluid in the mouth is closest to the ideal volume and 29 the participants feel most comfortable drinking the beverage. These results are in agreement with results of our previous 30 study that an opening diameter of 33 mm is optimum for young Japanese adults. Thus, we confirm that the proposed 31 function is accurate; it can be used to design bottle openings to suit consumers of various age groups and types of 32 beverages. 33 34

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“…There have been several studies on the ergonomic design of easy-to-open, easy-to-grasp, easy-to-drink, and scented aluminum beverage cans and bottles [9]- [12], but literatures on the design of the can-opening sound are not found.…”

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Approach for combining physical properties and sensibility for pleasant beverage can-opening sound

Komatsuzaki

Han²,

Uchida³

2016

Applied Acoustics

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The sound quality of consumer products has recently become an important feature, receiving much attention in the fields of engineering and manufacturing. The sound could add value to the product in the way that it meets the interests and preferences of consumers in a wide range of fields. The present study deals with the sound emitted from beverage cans when lifting the tab of the can end to open it before drinking. With a view toward finding the characteristics of sound that have a sense of ease and certainty for the consumer when opening a beverage can, we introduce the semantic differential method for the subjective assessment of sounds of various cans. We then perform waveform analyses in both time and frequency domains to determine the physical properties of the desirable sounds. Finally, we successfully correlate the texture factor with the duration of the tearing sound, which may be a new way to design cans with pleasant sounds.

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Evaluation of drinking ease relative to the opening diameter and beverage type of aluminum beverage bottles

Cited by 12 publications

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State of the art of user packaging interaction (UPI)

State of the art of user packaging interaction (UPI)

Evaluation function of drinking ease from aluminum beverage bottles relative to optimum bottle opening diameter and beverage type

Approach for combining physical properties and sensibility for pleasant beverage can-opening sound

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