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Design of smart devices for older people: A user centered approach for the collection of users’ needs
No full textIn this paper, it will be related a part of a design doctoral research that concerns the choice of the typology of users to analyzed to design smart devices for elderly people with physical symptoms related to gait and movement. The author will also explore which are the most advantageous ways to extrapolate from users’ contributions their needs, that in User Centered Design are considered essential to elaborate the project requirements
Monitoring older people: An overview of devices responding to significant needs of elderly affected by parkinson’s disease
No full textThe average age of people all over the world, especially in the most developed countries is constantly increasing, and with it is growing even the request of assistance and health care for older people. The most diffused pathologies related to the degeneration of the neurological system are the ones related to Dementia, in this article will be considered specifically as users older people affected by Parkinson’s Disease, a pathology that worsens movements and gait. Thanks to the new available technologies, is now possible for designers to imagine new devices that help the person to prolong his autonomous life in the own environment, enhancing his quality of life. The authors elaborated an overview of smart objects that satisfy the needs of older patients affected by Parkinson’s disease, to observe how Design Research is facing the requirements expressed by this users
Collaborative quality function deployment. A methodology for enabling co-design research practice
No full textThe Quality Function Deployment, was born in Japan around 1965 as a method to deploy functions forming quality and measurable parameters concerning products, service or processes based on user needs. QFD is normally used in business contexts by multidisciplinary teams that, after significant training, collaborate to compile and to interpret user requirements embedded in a matrix with characteristics and attributes. However, the design discipline is changing, along with methodologies, approaches, multidisciplinary teams and working practice. The rise of recent co-designed methodologies, flexible and holistic approaches in to design research lead to a decreased use of QFD among new designer generations. It has been noticed that when people are not adequately trained, and there is no opportunity to have face to face meetings, some methodological issues can arise while using QFD. The aim of this explorative work is to investigate the key factors that limit the use of QFD in the current multidisciplinary design research practice. A methodological literature review along with holistic experience fostered the development of a manifesto for a collaborative QFD methodology that stimulates collaborative multidisciplinary design research. This research impacts on developing a stimulating approach in to design research and practice, which shall be collaborative, inclusive, flexible, adaptable and open source, following the recent paradigms in cross-disciplines research practice
Human-Centered Design and Quality Function Deployment: Understanding Needs on a Multidisciplinary Automotive Research
No full textThe paper reports the activities of a specific design research integrated into multidisciplinary automotive project funded by Emilia Romagna region, Italy. The main goal of the overall project is to design the concept of a high-performance vehicle. In particular, this contribution presents a qualitative user analysis that has been carried out specifically to design the vehicle interface. This work lays on a methodology that points out the importance of inclusive and human-centered design approaches that are used throughout the automotive product development. The Quality Function Deployment (QFD), namely an inclusive decision-making tool, has been utilized into the product planning process in order to obtain measurable design parameters for improving the quality of the expected project through a correlation with the user needs. The outputs derived by QFD tool are used as a strategy to develop a possible design solution for the vehicle interface
N2T ‘Need to Tech discovery’ tool: enabling interaction with scientists in CBI students’ projects
Full text linkThe ‘Need to Tech discovery’ tool (N2T) is a design tool aimed at improving the interface between the scientific community and the market-driven innovation community. N2T embeds technological and scientific inputs into human-centered design processes. Once the design team has inputs from the human-centered research, it iteratively applies a divergence map and tech functional scenarios to interact with researchers. The output is a situated list of technologies that could be embedded in the solution concepts. N2T was developed using an Action Research Innovation Management Framework during four iterations of the Oper.CBI Open Innovation Program in connection with IdeaSquare, CERN. Results show better outcomes of the design team in exploring the potential applications of technologies and a higher engagement of scientists and researchers in the challenge domain
Anaesthesiologist-led multidisciplinary model for evaluating high- risk Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) surgical patients
Full text linkHow to Enhance Aging People’s Wellness by Means of Human Centered and Co-design Methodology
No full textThe average age of the world’s population is constantly growing and all over the world, especially in the most developed countries, older people are nowadays a significant part of our society. The current connected and digital world, brings many advantages for the global population but also many disadvantages especially for older people, who tend to experience a reduction in physical and cognitive capacity as well as a diminished openness to new experiences. Design Research, in order to face this complex context, is experimenting the involvement of the users in the design process with Human Centered Design and Co-Design. In this paper, the authors analyze the usefulness of the HCD approach and its application on some case studies with different scales, regarding design projects addressed to aging users
Human-Centered Design for Automotive Styling Design: Conceptualizing a Car from QFD to ViP
No full textDesigning a vehicle is a harmonic balancing between engineering functions, technologies, and designing activities. However, the design process is laborious because the convergence between styling and engineering needs to find constant compromises. Using a human-centered design strategy improves the management of the process. Considering this, the paper reports an automotive design process that is a part of a multidisciplinary project funded by Emilia Romagna Region, Italy. The main goal of the overall project is to design the concept of a hybrid sport vehicle. The peculiarity of this specific research concerns the combination of two different approaches that rely on the importance of human-centered design. In particular, The process initially uses Quality Function Deployment (QFD) and it concludes the styling process through Vision in Product Design (ViP). The result converges both outcomes to come up with a novel and integrated concept solution
Envisioning the Future and Going Back: A Human-Centered Strategy to Develop the Styling of a Sports Car
No full textDeveloping a vehicle means uncertainty because the competitiveness of global market implies investing high sums in advance without knowing if the final solution will be successful after its launch. Therefore, automotive styling must be well executed to reduce management risks and adopting a Human-Centered approach at the early stages of the process is one of the best strategies to avoid negative outcomes. In particular, the research used the Vision in Product Design, a strategic model to envision the concept in the future to anticipate future trends or upcoming wishes. However, since ViP generates a prediction because its context factors belong to the future, the research would risk of not completely matching costumer expectations because of future uncertainty. Therefore, the research pushed the intent of the vision backward, in a mediated context, where the character of the vision was merged with the real expectations of people gathered in the current context
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