Toward a formalization of affordance modeling for engineering design

Cormier, Phillip; Olewnik, Andrew; Lewis, Kemper

doi:10.1007/s00163-014-0179-3

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“…The concept of affordances comes from psychology and was first introduced by Gibson [35], and later referenced by Donald Norman in the context of product design [36,37]. This methodology focuses on shifting designer thinking away from product functions and toward the behavior that a product should afford the user [36][37][38].…”

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Cyber-Empathic Design: A Data-Driven Framework for Product Design

Ghosh

Olewnik

Lewis

et al. 2017

Journal of Mechanical Design

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A critical task in product design is mapping information from consumer to design space. Currently, this process largely depends on designers identifying and mapping psychological and consumer level factors to engineered attributes. In this way, current methodologies lack provision to test a designer's cognitive reasoning and could introduce bias when mapping from consumer to design space. In addition, current dominant frameworks do not include user–product interaction data in design decision making, nor do they assist designers in understanding why a consumer has a particular perception about a product. This paper proposes a framework—cyber-empathic (CE) design—where user–product interaction data are acquired using embedded sensors. To gain insight into consumer perceptions relative to product features, a network of psychological constructs is utilized. Structural equation modeling (SEM) is used as the parameter estimation and hypothesis testing technique, making the framework falsifiable in nature. To demonstrate effectiveness of the framework, a case study of sensor-integrated shoes is presented, where two models are compared—one survey-only and one using the cyber-empathic framework model. Covariance-based SEM (CB-SEM) is used to estimate the parameters and the fit indices. It is shown that the cyber-empathic framework results in improved fit over a survey-only SEM. This work demonstrates how low-level user–product interaction data can be used to understand and model user perceptions in a way that can support falsifiable design inference.

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Cyber-Empathic Design: A Data-Driven Framework for Product Design

Ghosh

Olewnik

Lewis

et al. 2017

Journal of Mechanical Design

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“…Common affordances can be identified and formalized by formalization rules which were used as the formalization of the design problems. 18,19 Affordances were classified into two different versions (temporary and stable) by Borghi and Riggio (2009), whereas Bub et al (2009) categorized them as functional and volumetric. 20 In addition, Srivastava et al (2013) divided affordances into types of manipulation opportunities, effect opportunities, use opportunities, and activity opportunities.…”

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An Affordance-based Approach for The Design of Customized Product Non-standard Part

Qiu

et al. 2020

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In this paper we develop an affordance-integrated approach to support design of the customized product non-standard part from conceptual period to detailed period. Firstly, the part affordances are identified by geometrical correlation analysis and shown by liaison graph. Secondly, a force transmission based method is developed to identify the main design parameters of a part, at the same time the design parameters and user requirements both can be mapped into the affordances. In turn, these affordances can be used as a bridge to construct the mapping relationship between the user requirements and the design parameters. In the end, both the force transmission method and the mapping relations are used to construct the detailed model of the non-standard part. A rear platen from the injection molding machine is employed to demonstrate the proposed approach and the result shows that this method can be feasible and useful in product design.

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“…Representing user needs via affordances was proposed by Maier and Fadel (2003), suggesting that user needs be structured as affordances once they are gathered and understood. To facilitate this process, a set of common affordances was identified (Maier & Fadel, 2003); this research was adapted and formalized to create an affordance basis (Cormier et al, 2014). This affordance basis can be leveraged when translating the raw user needs into affordance statements.…”

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An affordance-based approach for generating user-specific design specifications

Cormier

Lewis

2015

AIEDAM

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When developing an artifact, designers must first understand the problem. This includes the benefits that the artifact must deliver and the user variation that is present. Each user has a unique set of human factors, preferences, personal knowledge, and solution constraints that could potentially influence the characteristics of the artifact. Currently, there is little work supporting the process of how to formally generate user-specific design specifications, resulting in ad hoc or a priori decisions when generating design specifications. Further, because most design processes generate design specifications manually, the number of design specifications is not typically addressed at the user level. This research presents an affordance-based approach for use in the early stages of design to help designers establish user-specific design specifications. This information can then be used in the creation of a system or set of systems that meets the demands of both the user(s) and the organization that is developing the artifact. An affordance-based approach is leveraged because it maintains the relational field of view among the user, existing artifacts, and the artifact(s) being designed. Once individual design specifications are generated, designers can use this information in later stages of the design process.

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Toward a formalization of affordance modeling for engineering design

Cited by 21 publications

References 16 publications

Cyber-Empathic Design: A Data-Driven Framework for Product Design

Cyber-Empathic Design: A Data-Driven Framework for Product Design

An Affordance-based Approach for The Design of Customized Product Non-standard Part

An affordance-based approach for generating user-specific design specifications

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